Manti–La Sal National Forest spans central and southeastern Utah and a small part of western Colorado, covering more than 1.2 million acres. Created in 1903 as the Manti Forest Reserve, it reached its present form after the addition of Nebo National Forest in 1915 and La Sal National Forest in 1949, receiving its current name in 1950. Its terrain ranges from the Wasatch Plateau to the La Sal Mountains and remote canyon country, with Mount Peale as its highest point. Known for scenic roads, trails, wilderness, and striking contrast between cool forested mountains and surrounding red-rock desert, it remains an important public landscape in the interior West.