Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§111a Authorization for Acquisition of Additional Lands

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER XII — MESA VERDE NATIONAL PARK › § 111a

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

If the Secretary of the Interior recommends it, the President may, by official proclamation, add to Mesa Verde National Park a strip 260 feet wide along Point Lookout Road from the park’s north boundary to its junction with the Cortez‑Mancos Road. The addition can include the triangle at the road fork and nearby public land or right‑of‑way that is later received by gift or exchange. Those added lands will become part of the park and must follow the same park laws and rules.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §111a

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For the purpose of protecting the scenery along the Point Lookout Road between the north boundary of the Mesa Verde National Park and this road’s juncture with the Cortez-Mancos Road, the President of the United States is authorized, upon the recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, to add to the said Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, by executive proclamation, a strip of land two hundred and sixty feet wide along and including said Point Lookout Road, and the triangle formed by the fork in said road and such other public land along or adjacent to said road and right-of-way and lands as may be acquired by gift or by exchanges as hereinafter provided, which lands shall thereupon become and be a part of said park subject to all laws and regulations applicable thereto.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 111a

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102