---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 271"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "271"
heading: "Establishment; description of area"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/271"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XXIX — Canyonlands National Park"
---

# §271. Establishment; description of area


In order to [preserve](/usc/16/698u–1.md?p=2) an [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) in the [State](/usc/16/590q.md?p=a) of Utah possessing superlative scenic, scientific, and archeologic features for the inspiration, benefit, and use of the public, there is hereby established the Canyonlands National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) which, subject to valid existing rights, shall comprise the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) generally depicted on the drawing entitled “Boundary [Map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1), Canyonlands National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), Utah”, numbered 164–91004 and dated June 1970, which shows the boundaries of the [park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) having a total of approximately three hundred and thirty-seven thousand two hundred and fifty-eight acres. The [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) is on file and available for public inspection in the offices of the National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3) Service, Department of the Interior.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 88–590, § 1, Sept. 12, 1964, 78 Stat. 934; Pub. L. 92–154, § 1(a), Nov. 12, 1971, 85 Stat. 421.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1971—Pub. L. 92–154 substituted provision respecting revision of boundaries of the park and referring to Boundary Map on file and available for public inspection for depiction of the park area on the drawing, for prior specific detailed description of the area.