Elephant Rocks

Location:    Rio Grande County
Size:   575 acres  
Designated:   January 1994
Land Manager:   Bureau of Land Management
 
Elephant Rocks are a weathered remnant of the Fish Canyon tuff (late Oligocene, about 28 million years old).  The rocks themselves support an occurrence of the rare parsley Neoparrya lithophila, (rock-loving neoparrya).  An interesting mixture of short grass prairie and foothill shrub land vegetation occurs on the site.