List of U.S. Wilderness Areas
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Four federal agencies of the United States government administer the U.S. Wildernesses, which includes 756 Wilderness
Wilderness
Wilderness or wildland is a natural environment on Earth that has not been significantly modified by human activity. It may also be defined as: "The most intact, undisturbed wild natural areas left on our planet—those last truly wild places that humans do not control and have not developed with...

es and 109478939 acres (443,045.9 km²). These agencies are:
  • United States Forest Service
    United States Forest Service
    The United States Forest Service is an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass...

  • United States National Park Service
  • United States Bureau of Land Management
  • United States Fish and Wildlife Service
    United States Fish and Wildlife Service
    The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is a federal government agency within the United States Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats...



This is an area larger than Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

 or the state of California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. In Alaska
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

, there are 57425569 acres (232,393.2 km²) of wilderness. This represents about 52% of the wilderness area in the United States. The National Park Service (NPS) has oversight of 43890500 acres (177,618.7 km²) of wilderness at 60 locations. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has responsibility for 20702350 acres (83,779.5 km²) in 71 areas. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oversees 8726011 acres (35,312.9 km²) at 221 unique sites. The Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Forest Service oversees 36160078 acres (146,334.8 km²) of wilderness areas in 439 areas. Some wilderness areas are managed by multiple agencies, so the above totals exceed the actual number of units (756) in the system. In addition, some of the 60 NPS areas with wilderness have multiple units designated as such (for example, Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Lake Mead National Recreation Area is located in southern Nevada and northwestern Arizona. The centerpieces of the National Recreation Area are its two large reservoirs: Lake Mead and Lake Mohave. These lakes cater to boaters, swimmers, sunbathers, and fishermen while the surrounding desert rewards...

).

Some areas are designated wilderness by state or tribal governments. These are not governed by the Federal National Wilderness Preservation System
National Wilderness Preservation System
The National Wilderness Preservation System of the United States protects federally managed land areas designated for preservation in their natural condition. It was established by the Wilderness Act upon the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 3, 1964...

.

Alaska
Alaska
Alaska is the largest state in the United States by area. It is situated in the northwest extremity of the North American continent, with Canada to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the west and south, with Russia further west across the Bering Strait...

  • Aleutian Islands Wilderness
    Aleutian Islands Wilderness
    The Aleutian Islands Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Aleutian Islands of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is about in area and was designated by the United States Congress in 1980. It is part of the Aleutian Islands unit of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.-External links:*** by Marla...

  • Andreafsky Wilderness
    Andreafsky Wilderness
    Andreafsky Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located within the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, it is about in area, and was designated by the United States Congress in 1980.-External links:**...

  • Becharof Wilderness
    Becharof Wilderness
    Becharof Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located within the Becharof National Wildlife Refuge, it comprises approximately 500,000 acres and is bordered by the Katmai Wilderness on the north. It was designated Wilderness by the United States Congress in 1980.-External...

  • Bering Sea Wilderness
    Bering Sea Wilderness
    Bering Sea Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is in area and was designated by the United States Congress in 1970. It encompasses St. Matthew Island, Hall Island, and Pinnacle Island and is part of the larger Bering Sea unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife...

  • Bogoslof Wilderness
    Bogoslof Wilderness
    Bogoslof Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located within the Aleutian Islands unit of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, it is in area and was designated by the United States Congress in 1970. It encompasses the entirety of Bogoslof Island and nearby Fire...

  • Chamisso Wilderness
    Chamisso Wilderness
    Chamisso Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was designated by the United States Congress in 1975.A small subunit of the Chukchi Sea Unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, Chamisso Island and nearby Puffin Island were combined as a wildlife refuge in...

  • Chuck River Wilderness
    Chuck River Wilderness
    Chuck River Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Tongass National Forest in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was designated by the United States Congress in 1990....

  • Coronation Island Wilderness
    Coronation Island Wilderness
    Coronation Island Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was designated by the United States Congress in 1980. The wilderness area encompasses the entirety of Coronation Island plus the Spanish Islands. It is part of Tongass National Forest, which is managed by the United...

  • Denali Wilderness
  • Endicott River Wilderness
    Endicott River Wilderness
    Endicott River Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Designated by the United States Congress in 1980, it is located within the Tongass National Forest and is bordered by Glacier Bay Wilderness within Glacier Bay National Park on the west.-External links:* - Tongass...

  • Forrester Island Wilderness
    Forrester Island Wilderness
    Forrester Island Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska at Forrester Island . It was designated by the United States Congress in 1970...

  • Gates of the Arctic Wilderness
    Gates of the Arctic Wilderness
    Gates of the Arctic Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located in the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, it is in area, the third-largest designated wilderness area in the United States .-History and Introduction:When the wilderness activist, Bob...

  • Glacier Bay Wilderness
    Glacier Bay Wilderness
    Glacier Bay Wilderness is a wilderness area in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It consists of the park section of 3.28-million-acre Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve...

  • Hazy Islands Wilderness
    Hazy Islands Wilderness
    Hazy Islands Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was first established as a National Wildlife Refuge in 1912, and officially designated as Wilderness in 1970 by the United States Congress. The islands are part of the Gulf of Alaska unit of the Alaska Maritime National...

  • Innoko Wilderness
    Innoko Wilderness
    Innoko Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was designated by the United States Congress in 1980. It lies within the southeastern part of Innoko National Wildlife Refuge. Innoko Wilderness is a transition zone between the boreal forestland of interior Alaska and the...

  • Izembek Wilderness
    Izembek Wilderness
    Izembek Wilderness is a wilderness area in a coastal region of the U.S. state of Alaska panhandle, facing Bristol Bay. Located within the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, all of the land has been designated Wilderness, with the exception of that along a gravel road system and several private...

  • Karta River Wilderness
    Karta River Wilderness
    Karta River Wilderness is a U. S. wilderness area, centrally located on Prince of Wales Island. It is north of Hollis, Alaska just east of the Kasaan Peninsula and may be accessed by a quick 10 minute plane ride or 30-minute boat ride....

  • Katmai Wilderness
    Katmai Wilderness
    The Katmai Wilderness is a wilderness area in Alaska, United States. It is part of the Katmai National Park and Preserve. Today 15 active volcanoes line Shelikof Strait, which separates Katmai National Park and Preserve from Kodiak Island. Katmai protects this volcanic "laboratory" and, equally...

  • Kenai Wilderness
  • Kobuk Valley Wilderness
    Kobuk Valley Wilderness
    Kobuk Valley Wilderness is a wilderness area in Alaska, United States. It is part of the Kobuk Valley National Park. The wilderness lies north of the Arctic Circle and enclosed by the Baird Mountains and Waring Mountains mountains, the climate has changed little since the late Pleistocene era...

  • Kootznoowoo Wilderness
    Kootznoowoo Wilderness
    The temperate rainforests of Admiralty Island's Kootznoowoo Wilderness are unique among the of federally protected Wilderness in Southeast Alaska....

  • Koyukuk Wilderness
  • Kuiu Wilderness
  • Lake Clark Wilderness
  • Maurille Islands Wilderness
  • Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness
  • Mollie Beattie Wilderness
    Mollie Beattie Wilderness
    The Mollie Beattie Wilderness is located in the northeastern section of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It is the second-largest designated wilderness area in the United States, after the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness. It has an area of approximately , and comprises over 40 percent of the...

  • Noatak Wilderness
    Noatak Wilderness
    The Noatak Wilderness is a wilderness area in Alaska, United States. It is part of the Noatak National Preserve. Together with neighboring Gates of the Arctic Wilderness, Noatak National Preserve, more than , protects almost the entirety of the largest untouched river basin in America, that of the...

  • Nunivak Wilderness
  • Petersburg Creek-Duncan Salt Chuck Wilderness
  • Pleasant/Lemesurier/Inian Islands Wilderness
  • Russell Fjord Wilderness
  • Saint Lazaria Wilderness
  • Selawik Wilderness
  • Semidi Wilderness
  • Simeonof Wilderness
  • South Baranof Wilderness
  • South Etolin Wilderness
  • South Prince of Wales Wilderness
  • Stikine-LeConte Wilderness
    Stikine-LeConte Wilderness
    The Stikine-LeConte Wilderness is on the mainland of southeast Alaska, southeast of Petersburg and north of Wrangell, Alaska. The boundary extends from Frederick Sound on the west to the Alaska-Canada boundary on the east. The wilderness is in size...

  • Tebenkof Bay Wilderness
  • Togiak Wilderness
    Togiak Wilderness
    Togiak Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area in the Dillingham and Bethel Census Areas in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alaska. At , it occupies the northern half of the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge...

  • Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness
  • Tuxedni Wilderness
  • Unimak Wilderness
  • Warren Island Wilderness
  • West Chichagof-Yakobi Wilderness
    West Chichagof-Yakobi Wilderness
    West Chichagof-Yakobi Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness. It encompasses in Southeastern Alaska, in the United States. It includes Yakobi Island, the entire western side of Chichagof Island, as well as the many small island systems along their coasts.The wilderness was created...

  • Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness
    Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness
    Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness is a wilderness area in Alaska, United States. At , it is the largest designated U.S. Wilderness Area, and lies within Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve, the largest national park in the United States...


  • Arizona
    Arizona
    Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...

    • Apache Creek Wilderness
      Apache Creek Wilderness
      Apache Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area under the jurisdiction of the Chino Valley District of the Prescott National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona. Established in 1984, the Wilderness contains rolling hills of juniper and pinyon pine, outcroppings of granite, three natural springs, and...

    • Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness
      Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness
      Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness is a 19,410 acre wilderness area located in the U.S. State of Arizona. It forms the northwest border of the Galiuro Mountain range. The wilderness is administered by the BLM and is located northeast of Mammoth, Arizona in Graham and Pinal counties, about 120 miles...

    • Arrastra Mountains Wilderness
    • Aubrey Peak Wilderness
      Aubrey Peak Wilderness
      The Aubrey Peak Wilderness is a wilderness administered by the Bureau of Land Management . The wilderness is located in northwest Arizona in the southwest of Mohave County, a region of the southeastern Mojave Desert's extension into northwest Arizona....

    • Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
      Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
      The Baboquivari Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located in the Baboquivari Mountain Range southwest of Tucson, Arizona. It is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The United States Congress designated the Baboquivari Peak Wilderness in 1990. It...

    • Bear Wallow Wilderness
      Bear Wallow Wilderness
      The Bear Wallow Wilderness is an 11,080 acre wilderness area in eastern Arizona, United States. The wilderness is managed by the U.S. Forest Service.-See also:*Wilderness*Wilderness Act*List of U.S. Wilderness Areas...

    • Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
      Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
      The Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness is a wilderness area located in northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region. The jagged mountains and gently sloping alluvial plain of the Beaver Dam Mountains straddle the border between the two states...

    • Big Horn Mountains Wilderness
    • Cabeza Prieta Wilderness
      Cabeza Prieta Wilderness
      The Cabeza Prieta Wilderness is located in the Sonoran Desert in southwestern Arizona in the United States. Cabeza Prieta Wilderness Area has the distinction of being Arizona's largest Wilderness Area, encompassing nearly 93 percent of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge and covering —larger...

    • Castle Creek Wilderness
    • Cedar Branch Wilderness
    • Chiricahua National Monument Wilderness
    • Chiricahua Wilderness
    • Cottonwood Point Wilderness
    • Coyote Mountains Wilderness (Arizona)
      Coyote Mountains Wilderness (Arizona)
      The Coyote Mountains Wilderness of Arizona is part of the Coyote Mountains of southern Arizona in the center of Pima County. The wilderness lies about 40 mi southwest of Tucson, in the northwest of the Altar Valley. Kitt Peak is 4 mi WSW....

    • Dos Cabezas Mountains Wilderness
    • Eagletail Mountains Wilderness
      Eagletail Mountains Wilderness
      The Eagletail Mountains Wilderness is part of the Eagletail Mountains of central-west Arizona, about 65 mi west of Phoenix. The wilderness is of moderate size, with the Eagletail Mountains forming its northeast perimeter, and the much shorter Cemetery Ridge section, forming its southwest border...

    • East Cactus Plain Wilderness
      East Cactus Plain Wilderness
      The East Cactus Plain Wilderness is a wilderness area on the Cactus Plain north of Bouse, Arizona. It is one of twenty-five wilderness areas located in the Lower Colorado River Valley region, south of Lake Mead-Hoover Dam...

    • Escudilla Wilderness
    • Fishhooks Wilderness
      Fishhooks Wilderness
      Fishhooks Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is administered by the Bureau of Land Management and is located about northwest of Safford, Arizona. It borders the San Carlos Indian Reservation.-Access:...

    • Fossil Springs Wilderness
      Fossil Springs Wilderness
      Fossil Springs Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Coconino National Forest in Arizona, USA. It is located at the bottom of a steep canyon at the edge of the Colorado Plateau, just south of the Mogollon Rim. Here, water is pumped to the surface at the rate of about 20,000 gallons per minute...

    • Four Peaks Wilderness
    • Galiuro Wilderness
      Galiuro Wilderness
      Galiuro Wilderness is a wilderness area encompassing the mid to upper slopes of the Galiuro Mountains. It is located within the Safford Ranger District of the Coronado National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is bordered on the south by the Redfield Canyon...

    • Gibraltar Mountain Wilderness
    • Grand Wash Cliffs Wilderness
    • Granite Mountain Wilderness (Arizona)
    • Harcurvar Mountains Wilderness
    • Harquahala Mountains Wilderness
    • Hassayampa River Canyon Wilderness
      Hassayampa River Canyon Wilderness
      Hassayampa River Canyon Wilderness is a 11,840 acre wilderness area located in the U.S. state of Arizona. It lies north east of Wickenburg. The wilderness area was created in 1990 and is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The Yavapai word for the Hassayampa River is Hasyambo, meaning...

    • Havasu Wilderness
      Havasu Wilderness
      Havasu Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Havasu National Wildlife Refuge near Lake Havasu in the U.S. states of Arizona and California. are located in Arizona and are located in California....

  • Hells Canyon Wilderness (Arizona)
    Hells Canyon Wilderness (Arizona)
    Hells Canyon Wilderness is a 9900 acre wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located approximately northwest of Phoenix in Maricopa and southeast Yavapai counties.-Topography:...

  • Hellsgate Wilderness
  • Hummingbird Springs Wilderness
    Hummingbird Springs Wilderness
    The Hummingbird Springs Wilderness is a wilderness administered by the Bureau of Land Management . The wilderness is located in the northwest of Maricopa County in northern regions of the central Sonoran Desert of Arizona....

  • Imperial Refuge Wilderness
  • Juniper Mesa Wilderness
  • Kachina Peaks Wilderness
    Kachina Peaks Wilderness
    Kachina Peaks Wilderness is a wilderness area located approximately north of Flagstaff within the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona....

  • Kanab Creek Wilderness
    Kanab Creek Wilderness
    Kanab Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located along the Coconino/Mohave County line in the U.S. state of Arizona, approximately south of Fredonia...

  • Kendrick Mountain Wilderness
    Kendrick Mountain Wilderness
    Kendrick Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. State of Arizona. It lies north of the city of Flagstaff on the Coconino Plateau in Coconino County. Kendrick Mountain Wilderness was designated a protected Wilderness area by Congress in 1984. About two thirds of the wilderness is...

  • Kofa Wilderness
  • Mazatzal Wilderness
  • Miller Peak Wilderness
  • Mount Baldy Wilderness
  • Mount Logan Wilderness
    Mount Logan Wilderness
    The Mount Logan Wilderness is a 14,650 acre U.S. wilderness area in the Arizona Strip. It is located about seven miles south of the Mount Trumbull Wilderness. The wilderness is within the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument and is managed by the BLM. -See also:*Wilderness*List of U.S....

  • Mount Nutt Wilderness
  • Mount Tipton Wilderness
    Mount Tipton Wilderness
    The Mount Tipton Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located in northwestern Arizona and comprises the north portion of the Cerbat Mountains; the Cerbat Mountains extend northwesterly from the northern edge of Kingman....

  • Mount Trumbull Wilderness
    Mount Trumbull Wilderness
    The Mount Trumbull Wilderness is a 7,880 acre wilderness area located on the Uinkaret Plateau in the Arizona Strip. It is managed by the Bureau of Land Management....

  • Mount Wilson Wilderness
  • Mount Wrightson Wilderness
  • Muggins Mountain Wilderness
  • Munds Mountain Wilderness
  • Needle's Eye Wilderness
    Needle's Eye Wilderness
    Needle's Eye Wilderness is a wilderness area located approximately southeast of the town of Globe in Gila County in the U.S. state of Arizona.-Topography:...

  • New Water Mountains Wilderness
  • North Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
  • North Santa Teresa Wilderness
  • Organ Pipe Cactus Wilderness
  • Paiute Wilderness
    Paiute Wilderness
    The Paiute Wilderness is an 87,900 acre wilderness area located in the U.S. state of Arizona. The wilderness is administered by the Bureau of Land Management.-References:, accessed August 25, 2010.-See also:*Wilderness*Wilderness Act...

  • Pajarita Wilderness
  • Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
    Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
    The Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness is a wilderness area located in northern Arizona and southern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region. The wilderness is composed of broad plateaus, tall escarpments, and deep canyons....

  • Peloncillo Mountains Wilderness
  • Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area
  • Pine Mountain Wilderness
  • Pusch Ridge Wilderness
  • Rawhide Mountains Wilderness
  • Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness
    Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness
    The Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona.The Wilderness is predominantly wind and water sculpted pinnacles, windows, arches, and slot canyons, and the red-rock cliffs of the Mogollon Rim that mark the edge...

  • Redfield Canyon Wilderness
  • Rincon Mountain Wilderness
  • Saddle Mountain Wilderness
  • Saguaro Wilderness
  • Salome Wilderness
    Salome Wilderness
    The Salome Wilderness of Tonto National Forest is a protected area in the rim country of the southwestern USA. The Salome Wilderness lies within the Sierra Ancha mountain range in Gila County, Arizona.-Ecology:...

  • Salt River Canyon Wilderness
    Salt River Canyon Wilderness
    Salt River Canyon Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Tonto National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona.The Salt River and its deep canyon bisect the entire length of the wilderness...

  • Santa Teresa Wilderness
  • Sierra Ancha Wilderness
    Sierra Ancha Wilderness
    The Sierra Ancha Wilderness area comprises within the Tonto National Forest, Arizona, USA. The terrain varies from box canyons to high cliffs and pine-covered mountains. Elevations range from lows of about to a high of at Aztec Peak...

  • Sierra Estrella Wilderness
  • Signal Mountain Wilderness
  • South Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
  • Strawberry Crater Wilderness
  • Superstition Wilderness
  • Swansea Wilderness
  • Sycamore Canyon Wilderness
  • Table Top Wilderness
  • Tres Alamos Wilderness
  • Trigo Mountain Wilderness
  • Upper Burro Creek Wilderness
    Upper Burro Creek Wilderness
    Upper Burro Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located in Yavapai and Mohave Counties in the U.S. state of Arizona, approximately northwest of the town of Bagdad.-Topography:...

  • Wabayuma Peak Wilderness
  • Warm Springs Wilderness
    Warm Springs Wilderness
    The Warm Springs Wilderness makes up the entirety of the Black Mesa and parts of the surrounding foothills, washes, alluvial fans, and valleys. The Black Mesa is the southernmost section of the Black Mountains of western Mohave County, in northwest Arizona...

  • West Clear Creek Wilderness
    West Clear Creek Wilderness
    The West Clear Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. West Clear Creek is formed by the junction of Willow Creek and Clover Creek in the Mogollon Rim, which is part of the Colorado Plateau; the Mogollon Rim is the major part of the Arizona transition zone at the...

  • Wet Beaver Wilderness
    Wet Beaver Wilderness
    Wet Beaver Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona.Wet Beaver Creek is a perennial stream with one major tributary, Dry Beaver Creek. The confluence of the two is at McGuireville, Arizona...

  • White Canyon Wilderness
  • Woodchute Wilderness
  • Woolsey Peak Wilderness

  • Arkansas
    Arkansas
    Arkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...

    • Big Lake Wilderness
    • Black Fork Mountain Wilderness
      Black Fork Mountain Wilderness
      Black Fork Mountain Wilderness is located in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Created by an act of Congress in 1984, the wilderness covers an area of 13,139 acres . Contained within Ouachita National Forest, the wilderness is managed by the U.S...

    • Buffalo National River Wilderness
    • Caney Creek Wilderness
  • Dry Creek Wilderness
  • East Fork Wilderness
  • Flatside Wilderness
  • Hurricane Creek Wilderness
  • Leatherwood Wilderness
  • Poteau Mountain Wilderness
  • Richland Creek Wilderness
  • Upper Buffalo Wilderness

  • California
    California
    California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

    • Agua Tibia Wilderness
      Agua Tibia Wilderness
      Agua Tibia Wilderness is a protected area in Riverside and San Diego counties, California. It is mostly within the Palomar Ranger District of the Cleveland National Forest....

    • Ansel Adams Wilderness
      Ansel Adams Wilderness
      The Ansel Adams Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada of California, USA. The wilderness is part of the Sierra and Inyo National Forests. The wilderness spans...

    • Argus Range Wilderness
    • Beauty Mountain Wilderness
    • Big Maria Mountains Wilderness
    • Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness
      Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness
      The Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness is in the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California, United States.-Geography:The wilderness lies in the northern end of the Sacramento Mountains, east of the Piute Mountains and west of Needles, California, along Interstate 40 as its northern border....

    • Bighorn Mountain Wilderness
    • Black Mountain Wilderness
    • Bright Star Wilderness
      Bright Star Wilderness
      Bright Star Wilderness is a wilderness area in Kern County in the U.S. state of California.The California Desert Protection Act of 1994 added the wilderness to the National Wilderness Preservation System and it is administered by the Bureau of Land Management .Bright Star Wilderness surrounds ...

    • Bristol Mountains Wilderness
    • Bucks Lake Wilderness
      Bucks Lake Wilderness
      The Bucks Lake Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Plumas National Forest section of the Sierra Nevada, in northeastern California, United States.-Geography:...

    • Cache Creek Wilderness
      Cache Creek Wilderness
      The Cache Creek Wilderness is a 27,245 acre wilderness area located in Lake County, California. The wilderness was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System when the United States Congress passed the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act in 2006...

    • Cadiz Dunes Wilderness
    • Cahuilla Mountain Wilderness
    • Caribou Wilderness
      Caribou Wilderness
      The Caribou Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area created by the Wilderness Act of 1964 and is part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. It is located east of Redding in the state of California, USA. The Caribou Wilderness comprises and is adjacent to the east side of...

    • Carrizo Gorge Wilderness
    • Carson-Iceberg Wilderness
      Carson-Iceberg Wilderness
      The Carson-Iceberg Wilderness is a federal wilderness area located northeast of Stockton, California. It encompasses and was designated by the California Wilderness Act of 1984. It protects an area of High Sierra landscape with elevations from to along the Sierra Mountains from Ebbetts Pass...

    • Castle Crags Wilderness
      Castle Crags Wilderness
      The Castle Crags Wilderness is a wilderness area located 40 miles north of Redding, California within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. The US Congress passsd the California Wilderness Act in 1984 which set aside the wilderness...

    • Cedar Roughs Wilderness
    • Chanchelulla Wilderness
    • Chemehuevi Mountains Wilderness
    • Chimney Peak Wilderness
      Chimney Peak Wilderness
      The Chimney Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area located northwest of Ridgecrest, in southeastern Tulare County, California. The 1994 California Desert Protection Act created the wilderness and it is managed by the Bureau of Land Management , Department of the Interior.The Chimney Peak...

    • Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness
    • Chumash Wilderness
      Chumash Wilderness
      The Chumash Wilderness is a wilderness area in the mountains of northern Ventura County and southwestern Kern County in California, USA. It is completely within the Los Padres National Forest, and includes most of the highest terrain in Ventura County...

    • Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness
      Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness
      The Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness ia a wilderness area located northeast of Twentynine Palms, California.Named for the dry lakes found at the center of the wilderness, this area has a variety of natural resources. The east portion is mountainous while the west portion is a vast alluvial slope or bajada...

    • Clipper Mountain Wilderness
      Clipper Mountain Wilderness
      The Clipper Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Clipper Mountains within the eastern Mojave Desert, in northeastern San Bernardino County, California...

    • Coso Range Wilderness
    • Coyote Mountains Wilderness (California)
    • Cucamonga Wilderness
      Cucamonga Wilderness
      The Cucamonga Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California. The wilderness is managed by the United States Forest Service in Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests. Elevations range from about ....

    • Darwin Falls Wilderness
      Darwin Falls Wilderness
      The Darwin Falls Wilderness is a wilderness area in the northern Mojave Desert, and part of the National Wilderness Preservation System established by the California Desert Protection Act and managed by the Bureau of Land Management...

    • Dead Mountains Wilderness
    • Death Valley Wilderness
    • Desolation Wilderness
      Desolation Wilderness
      The Desolation Wilderness is a federally protected wilderness area located along the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, just southwest of Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County, California, United States. It is a popular backpacking destination, with much barren rocky terrain at the edge of the...

    • Dick Smith Wilderness
      Dick Smith Wilderness
      The Dick Smith Wilderness is a wilderness area in the mountains of eastern Santa Barbara County, California, USA, with a portion in Ventura County. It is completely contained within the Los Padres National Forest, and is northeast of the city of Santa Barbara and north of the city of Ojai...

    • Dinkey Lakes Wilderness
      Dinkey Lakes Wilderness
      The Dinkey Lakes Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located northeast of Fresno, in the state of California, USA. It comprises within the Sierra National Forest and was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System by the California Wilderness Act of 1984.Elevations...

    • Domeland Wilderness
    • El Paso Mountains Wilderness
      El Paso Mountains Wilderness
      The El Paso Mountains Wilderness was created in 1994 and now has a total of . All of the wilderness is in the northern Mojave Desert in eastern Kern County, California and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management...

    • Emigrant Wilderness
      Emigrant Wilderness
      The Emigrant Wilderness of Stanislaus National Forest is a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, USA. It is bordered by Yosemite National Park on the south, the Toiyabe National Forest on the east, and State Route 108 on the north. It is an elongated area that extends...

    • Farallon Wilderness
    • Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness
      Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness
      The Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness is located about 25 miles west of Brawley, California, and southeast of the Vallecito Mountains in the United States...

    • Funeral Mountains Wilderness
    • Garcia Wilderness
      Garcia Wilderness
      The Garcia Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Los Padres National Forest in Central California, San Luis Obispo County. It is one of several areas set aside by the United States Congress in 1992 with passage of the Los Padres Condor Range and River Protection Act...

    • Golden Trout Wilderness
      Golden Trout Wilderness
      The Golden Trout Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada, in Tulare County, California. It is located east of Visalia, California within Inyo National Forest and Sequoia National Forest....

    • Golden Valley Wilderness
    • Granite Chief Wilderness
    • Granite Mountain Wilderness (California)
    • Grass Valley Wilderness
    • Hauser Wilderness
    • Havasu Wilderness
      Havasu Wilderness
      Havasu Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Havasu National Wildlife Refuge near Lake Havasu in the U.S. states of Arizona and California. are located in Arizona and are located in California....

  • Hollow Hills Wilderness
  • Hoover Wilderness
    Hoover Wilderness
    The Hoover Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Inyo and Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forests. It lies to the east of the crest of the central Sierra Nevada in California, to the north and east of Yosemite National Park - a long strip of spectacular scenery stretching nearly to Sonora Pass on the...

  • Ibex Wilderness
  • Imperial Refuge Wilderness
  • Indian Pass Wilderness
    Indian Pass Wilderness
    The Indian Pass Wilderness is wilderness area under the administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The reserve is located in the very southeastern part of the Chocolate Mountains, in the southeastern part of California, just to the west of the Colorado River in the Lower Colorado River Valley...

  • Inyo Mountains Wilderness
  • Ishi Wilderness
    Ishi Wilderness
    The Ishi Wilderness is a 41,339 acre wilderness area located on the Lassen National Forest in the Shasta Cascade foothills of northern California, United States. The Ishi Wilderness is located approximately twenty miles east of Red Bluff, California. The wilderness was created when the US Congress...

  • Jacumba Wilderness
  • Jennie Lakes Wilderness
    Jennie Lakes Wilderness
    Jennie Lakes Wilderness is a protected area in the Sierra Nevada, in Tulare County, California. It is located east of Fresno and managed by the US Forest Service....

  • John Krebs Wilderness
  • John Muir Wilderness
    John Muir Wilderness
    The John Muir Wilderness is a wilderness area that extends along the crest of the Sierra Nevada of California, USA for , in the Inyo and Sierra National Forests. Established in 1964 by the Wilderness Act and named for naturalist John Muir, it contains...

  • Joshua Tree Wilderness
  • Kaiser Wilderness
    Kaiser Wilderness
    The Kaiser Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness protected area located northeast of Fresno in the state of California, USA. It was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System by the United States Congress on October 19, 1976...

  • Kelso Dunes Wilderness
  • Kiavah Wilderness
    Kiavah Wilderness
    The Kiavah Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located in the Mojave Desert, Scodie Mountains, and Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains in Kern County, California, United States...

  • King Range Wilderness
    King Range Wilderness
    The King Range Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area within the King Range National Conservation Area in northern California, United States. The area was set aside with the passage of the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act of 2006...

  • Kingston Range Wilderness
  • Lassen Volcanic Wilderness
  • Lava Beds Wilderness
  • Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness
  • Little Picacho Wilderness
    Little Picacho Wilderness
    The Little Picacho Wilderness is a wilderness area under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management. The wilderness is found in a southeast extension of the Chocolate Mountains adjacent to the Colorado River, in the southeastern part of California...

  • Machesna Mountain Wilderness
  • Magic Mountain Wilderness
  • Malpais Mesa Wilderness
  • Manly Peak Wilderness
  • Marble Mountain Wilderness
    Marble Mountain Wilderness
    The Marble Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area located northeast of Eureka, California, USA. It is managed by the US Forest Service and is within the Klamath National Forest. The land was first set aside on April 1931 as the Marble Mountain Primitive Area , it was one of four areas to gain...

  • Matilija Wilderness
  • Mecca Hills Wilderness
  • Mesquite Wilderness
  • Mojave Wilderness
  • Mokelumne Wilderness
    Mokelumne Wilderness
    The Mokelumne Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located east of Sacramento, California. It is within the boundaries of three national forests: Stanislaus, Eldorado and Toiyabe. First protected under the Wilderness Act of 1964, the Mokelumne’s borders were expanded under the...

  • Monarch Wilderness
    Monarch Wilderness
    The Monarch Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located 70 miles east of Fresno, California, in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. It encompasses within both the Sequoia National Forest and the Sierra National Forest and is managed by the United States Forest Service...

  • Mount Lassic Wilderness
  • Mount Shasta Wilderness
    Mount Shasta Wilderness
    The Mount Shasta Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located east of Mount Shasta City in northern California. The US Congress passed the 1984 California Wilderness Act that set aside the Mount Shasta Wilderness. The US Forest Service is the managing agency as the wilderness ...

  • Newberry Mountains Wilderness
  • Nopah Range Wilderness
  • North Algodones Dunes Wilderness
    Algodones Dunes
    The Algodones Dunes is a large erg located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of California, near the border with Arizona and the Mexican state of Baja California. The field is approximately 45 miles long by 6 miles wide and extends along a northwest-southeast line that correlates to...

  • North Fork Wilderness
  • North Mesquite Mountains Wilderness
  • Old Woman Mountains Wilderness
    Old Woman Mountains Wilderness
    Old Women Mountains Wilderness is a wilderness area located south of Essex, California. This wilderness was established in 1994 and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management....

  • Orocopia Mountains Wilderness
  • Otay Mountain Wilderness
  • Owens Peak Wilderness
    Owens Peak Wilderness
    The Owens Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area comprising the rugged eastern face of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Owens Peak is the high point...

  • Owens River Headwaters Wilderness
  • Pahrump Valley Wilderness
  • Palen/McCoy Wilderness
  • Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness
  • Phillip Burton Wilderness
    Phillip Burton Wilderness
    The Phillip Burton Wilderness is part of the Point Reyes National Seashore located about northeast of San Francisco, California. Total wilderness land is 33,373 acres which includes a roadless "potential wilderness" area of over and is the only designated wilderness along the California coast...

  • Picacho Peak Wilderness
  • Pine Creek Wilderness
  • Pinnacles Wilderness
  • Pinto Mountains Wilderness
  • Piper Mountain Wilderness
    Piper Mountain Wilderness
    The Piper Mountain Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located in the White Mountains northeast of Big Pine, California in Inyo County, California....

  • Piute Mountains Wilderness
  • Pleasant View Ridge Wilderness
  • Red Buttes Wilderness
    Red Buttes Wilderness
    The Red Buttes Wilderness is a wilderness area in Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest in the U.S. states of Oregon and California. It comprises , approximately of which is located in California, and in Oregon...

  • Resting Spring Range Wilderness
  • Rice Valley Wilderness
  • Riverside Mountains Wilderness
  • Rocks and Islands Wilderness
  • Rodman Mountains Wilderness
  • Russian Wilderness
    Russian Wilderness
    The Russian Wilderness is a wilderness area of located approximately northeast of Eureka in northern California. It is within the Klamath National Forest in Siskiyou County and is managed by the US Forest Service...

  • Sacatar Trail Wilderness
    Sacatar Trail Wilderness
    The Sacatar Trail Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located northwest of Ridgecrest, California USA.It was created in 1994 with the passage of the California Desert Protection Act - Public Law 103-433 - and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management .The wilderness is in size...

  • Saddle Peak Hills Wilderness
  • San Gabriel Wilderness
    San Gabriel Wilderness
    The San Gabriel Wilderness is a wilderness area created in 1968 of more than 36,118 acres within the Angeles National Forest. The area lies on the southern slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains, between the Angeles Crest and the West Fork of the San Gabriel River.The area was originally set aside...

  • San Gorgonio Wilderness
    San Gorgonio Wilderness
    San Gorgonio Wilderness is located in the San Bernardino Mountains, north of Morongo Valley and approximately northwest of Palm Springs, California...

  • San Jacinto Wilderness
  • San Mateo Canyon Wilderness
  • San Rafael Wilderness
    San Rafael Wilderness
    The San Rafael Wilderness is a wilderness area in the mountains of north central Santa Barbara County, California, USA. It is completely contained within the Los Padres National Forest, and is north of the city of Santa Barbara and east of Santa Maria...

  • Sanhedrin Wilderness
  • Santa Lucia Wilderness
  • Santa Rosa Wilderness
    Santa Rosa Wilderness
    The Santa Rosa Wilderness is a wilderness area in Southern California, in the Santa Rosa Mountains of Riverside and San Diego counties, California. It is in the Colorado Desert section of the Sonoran Desert, above the Coachella Valley and Lower Colorado River Valley regions in a Peninsular...

  • Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness
    Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness
    The Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness is a federal wilderness area of located south of Borrego Springs, California in San Diego County. This land was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System when the US Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act of 1994...

  • Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness
  • Sespe Wilderness
  • Sheep Mountain Wilderness
    Sheep Mountain Wilderness
    Sheep Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area of in the Angeles National Forest located in Southern California. The US Congress passed the California Wilderness Act of 1984 which created the wilderness and added it to the National Wilderness Preservation System.Notable hiking in the area includes...

  • Sheephole Valley Wilderness
  • Silver Peak Wilderness
    Silver Peak Wilderness
    The Silver Peak Wilderness is located in the southwestern corner of Monterey County in the Santa Lucia Mountains along the Central Coast of California. It southern boundary largely follows the Monterey County/San Luis Obispo County line. Its eastern boundary is defined by Ft. Hunter Liggett, while...

  • Siskiyou Wilderness
    Siskiyou Wilderness
    The Siskiyou Wilderness is a federal wilderness area designated by the passage of the California Wilderness Act of 1984. Originally, the land area was The Northern California Wild Heritage Act of 2006 added for the current total of . All of the wilderness is in Northern California and is managed...

  • Snow Mountain Wilderness
    Snow Mountain Wilderness
    The Snow Mountain Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located north of Santa Rosa, California, USA in the Mendocino National Forest. The U.S. Congress passed the California Wilderness Act of 1984 which created 23 new wilderness areas including Snow Mountain. It lies within the...

  • South Fork Eel River Wilderness
    South Fork Eel River Wilderness
    The South Fork Eel River Wilderness is a 12,868 acre wilderness area located in Mendocino County, California. The wilderness was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System when the United States Congress passed the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act in 2006...

  • South Fork San Jacinto Wilderness
  • South Nopah Range Wilderness
  • South Sierra Wilderness
    South Sierra Wilderness
    The South Sierra Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness protected area located northeast of Bakersfield, California.Created with the passage of the California Wilderness Act of 1984 by the U.S. Congress, it is in size, is within both the Sequoia and Inyo national forests and is managed...

  • South Warner Wilderness
    South Warner Wilderness
    The South Warner Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area east of Alturas, California, USA. It encompasses more than of the Warner Mountains....

  • Stateline Wilderness
    Stateline Wilderness
    Located in San Bernardino County, California approximately three miles northwest of Primm, NV and I-15, the small but pristine 7,004-acre Stateline Wilderness contains the eastern terminus of the 15-mile long Clark Mountain Range....

  • Stepladder Mountains Wilderness
  • Surprise Canyon Wilderness
  • Sylvania Mountains Wilderness
    Sylvania Mountains Wilderness
    The Sylvania Mountains Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located east of Bishop in the state of California. The wilderness is 18,677acres in size and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management . The California Desert Protection Act of 1994 created the Sylvania Mountains...

  • Thousand Lakes Wilderness
    Thousand Lakes Wilderness
    The Thousand Lakes Wilderness is located within the southern portion of the Cascade Range in northeastern California. The wilderness was established in 1964 with the passage of the Wilderness Act and is administered by Lassen National Forest...

  • Trilobite Wilderness
  • Trinity Alps Wilderness
    Trinity Alps Wilderness
    The Trinity Alps Wilderness is a designated wilderness located in northern California, roughly between Eureka and Redding. It is jointly administered by Shasta-Trinity, Klamath, and Six Rivers National Forests. About are administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The wilderness is located in...

  • Turtle Mountains Wilderness
  • Ventana Wilderness
    Ventana Wilderness
    The Ventana Wilderness of Los Padres National Forest is a Federally designated wilderness area located in the Santa Lucia Mountains along the Central Coast of California. This wilderness was established in 1969 when the Ventana Wilderness Act abolished the Ventana Primitive Area and replaced it...

  • Whipple Mountains Wilderness
    Whipple Mountains Wilderness
    The Whipple Mountains Wilderness is a wilderness administered by the Bureau of Land Management . Most of the Whipple Mountains are within the wilderness area. It is located in the northeastern Colorado Desert near the Colorado River. Lake Havasu and Lake Havasu City are to the south . Earp,...

  • White Mountains Wilderness
  • Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness
    Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness
    The Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located west of Red Bluff in the state of California. Created by the Wilderness Act of 1964, the land area was originally ....

  • Yosemite Wilderness
  • Yuki Wilderness

  • Colorado
    Colorado
    Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

    • Black Canyon of the Gunnison Wilderness
    • Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness
      Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness
      The Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness is located in western Colorado and eastern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region approximately west of Grand Junction, Colorado. The wilderness lies on the northwest flank of the Uncompahgre Plateau...

    • Buffalo Peaks Wilderness
      Buffalo Peaks Wilderness
      The Buffalo Peaks Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in San Isabel National Forest and Pike National Forest in central Colorado. The wilderness named after two highly eroded volcanic mountains was established in 1993....

    • Byers Peak Wilderness
      Byers Peak Wilderness
      The Byers Peak Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in Arapaho National Forest in north central Colorado. The wilderness named after its highest peak was established in 1993.-External links:* at Sangres.com...

    • Cache La Poudre Wilderness
      Cache La Poudre Wilderness
      The Cache la Poudre Wilderness is administered by the USDA Forest Service. It is located on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District on the Roosevelt National Forest in Colorado. This wilderness is 9,258 acres  in size and is characterized by steep, rugged terrain along the Cache la Poudre River...

    • Collegiate Peaks Wilderness
      Collegiate Peaks Wilderness
      The Collegiate Peaks Wilderness is a area located in central Colorado between Leadville and Buena Vista to the east and Aspen to the west and Crested Butte to the southwest. Most of the area is in the San Isabel and Gunnison National Forests, with a smaller area in the White River National Forest...

    • Comanche Peak Wilderness
      Comanche Peak Wilderness
      The Comanche Peak Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the Roosevelt National Forest on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District in Colorado along the northern boundary of Rocky Mountain National Park. The wilderness named for its most prominent peak was established in 1980. There are of...

    • Dominguez Canyon Wilderness
      Dominguez Canyon Wilderness
      The Dominguez Canyon Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located southeast of Grand Junction in western Colorado. The wilderness area established in 2009, the largest BLM roadless area in the state of Colorado, includes two major canyon systems that drain the northeastern corner of the...

    • Eagles Nest Wilderness
      Eagles Nest Wilderness
      The Eagles Nest Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the Gore Range near Vail, Copper Mountain, Frisco, Silverthorne, and Heeney, in Summit and Eagle Counties Colorado. Eagles Nest Wilderness falls within the jurisdiction of Dillon Ranger District and Holy Cross Ranger District, White...

    • Flat Tops Wilderness
    • Fossil Ridge Wilderness
      Fossil Ridge Wilderness
      The Fossil Ridge Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located approximately 16 miles north of Gunnison, Colorado in the Gunnison National Forest.-External links:*...

    • Great Sand Dunes Wilderness
    • Greenhorn Mountain Wilderness
      Greenhorn Mountain Wilderness
      The Greenhorn Mountain Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located northwest of Walsenburg, Colorado in the San Isabel and Pike National forests. The wilderness area includes the summit of Greenhorn Mountain, the highest point in the Wet Mountains of Colorado....

    • Gunnison Gorge Wilderness
      Gunnison Gorge Wilderness
      The Gunnison Gorge Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located immediately northwest of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. The wilderness area established in 1999 includes of the Gunnison River inside the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area....

    • Holy Cross Wilderness
      Holy Cross Wilderness
      The Holy Cross Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in San Isabel and White River national forests near Leadville, Minturn, Avon, Edwards, Eagle, and Vail, Colorado. The wilderness with of trails was established in 1980. The wilderness was named after its highest peak, Mount of the...

    • Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness
      Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness
      The Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in White River National Forest east of Aspen, Colorado. The wilderness established in 1978 includes the headwaters of Hunter Creek and the Fryingpan River plus many peaks of the Williams Mountains. It borders on the Mount Massive...

    • Indian Peaks Wilderness
      Indian Peaks Wilderness
      The Indian Peaks Wilderness is a wilderness area in north central Colorado managed jointly by the United States Forest Service and the National Park Service within the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and small parts of the southern section of Rocky Mountain National Park. It borders the...

    • James Peak Wilderness
      James Peak Wilderness
      The James Peak Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in north central Colorado in the Arapaho and Roosevelt national forests. The wilderness area borders Indian Peaks Wilderness to the north and the James Peak Protection Area to the west.-Geography:...

    • La Garita Wilderness
      La Garita Wilderness
      The La Garita Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the La Garita Mountains of southern Colorado. The wilderness established in 1964 in Gunnison and Rio Grande national forests includes a segment of the Colorado Trail...

    • Lizard Head Wilderness
      Lizard Head Wilderness
      The Lizard Head Wilderness is a wilderness area in southwest Colorado. It contains 41,309 acres and is jointly managed by the Uncompahgre and San Juan National Forests. It is 10 miles southwest of the town of Telluride and is named for a prominent rock formation that is said to look like a...

    • Lost Creek Wilderness
      Lost Creek Wilderness
      The Lost Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located in central Colorado in Jefferson and Park counties south of the town of Bailey. The area is situated entirely within the boundaries of the Pike National Forest....

    • Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness
      Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness
      The Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the Elk Mountains of central Colorado. The wilderness was established in 1980 in the Gunnison and White River national forests. Within its boundaries are of trails, 6 of Colorado's fourteeners and 9 passes over ....

  • Mesa Verde Wilderness
    Mesa Verde Wilderness
    Mesa Verde Wilderness is a wilderness area located within Mesa Verde National Park in the U.S. state of Colorado.These three small and separate sections of the National Park are located on the steep north and east boundaries and serve as buffers to further protect the significant Native American...

  • Mount Evans Wilderness
    Mount Evans Wilderness
    The Mount Evans Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in Arapaho National Forest and Pike National Forest about 40 miles west of Denver, Colorado...

  • Mount Massive Wilderness
    Mount Massive Wilderness
    The Mount Massive Wilderness is a federally weird wilderness area in the Sawatch Range, located in the US state of Mexico. It is operated jointly by the United States crudding Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service as parts of the San Isabel National Forest and the Leadville National Fish Hatchery...

  • Mount Sneffels Wilderness
    Mount Sneffels Wilderness
    The Mount Sneffels Wilderness is a wilderness area in southwest Colorado managed by the Uncompahgre National Forest. It is about 5 miles west of the town of Ouray. The area is named for Mt. Sneffels a prominent fourteener in the San Juan Mountains...

  • Mount Zirkel Wilderness
    Mount Zirkel Wilderness
    The Mount Zirkel Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in Routt National Forest in northwest Colorado. The closest city is Steamboat Springs, Colorado...

  • Neota Wilderness
    Neota Wilderness
    The Neota Wilderness is administered by the USDA Forest Service. It is located on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the Roosevelt National Forest in Colorado. This wilderness area encompasses and is bordered on the south by Rocky Mountain National Park. Elevation ranges from 10,000 to in the...

  • Never Summer Wilderness
    Never Summer Wilderness
    The Never Summer Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located immediately west of Rocky Mountain National Park in the Never Summer Mountains of northern Colorado.-External links:*...

  • Platte River Wilderness
    Platte River Wilderness
    The Platte River Wilderness is primarily located in south central Wyoming, with a small section extending into Colorado in the United States. Located entirely within Medicine Bow - Routt National Forest, the wilderness was created in 1984 to protect the forestlands adjacent to the North Platte River...

  • Powderhorn Wilderness
    Powderhorn Wilderness
    The Powderhorn Wilderness is a wilderness area in Hinsdale and Gunnison Counties, Colorado, USA, located northeast of Lake City. Most of the northern part of the area, , about 77.5%, is located on Bureau of Land Management land and its southern portion, , about 22.5%, is located within the...

  • Ptarmigan Peak Wilderness
    Ptarmigan Peak Wilderness
    The Ptarmigan Peak Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located north of Dillion, Colorado in the Williams Fork Mountains. The wilderness was established in 1993 in the White River and Routt national forests....

  • Raggeds Wilderness
    Raggeds Wilderness
    The Raggeds Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located northwest of Crested Butte, Colorado. The wilderness established in 1980 in the White River and Gunnison national forests has of trails....

  • Rawah Wilderness
    Rawah Wilderness
    The Rawah Wilderness is administered by the USDA Forest Service. It is located on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the Roosevelt National Forest in Colorado, near the Wyoming border, and also in the Routt National Forest to its south. It encompasses and includes 25 named lakes ranging in...

  • Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness
  • Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
    Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
    The Sangre de Cristo Wilderness is a long and narrow wilderness area covering much of the Sangre de Cristo Range centered about Saguache County and Custer County, Colorado. Smaller areas are located in the counties of Fremont, Alamosa, and Huerfano. All of the wilderness area is located on U.S...

  • Sarvis Creek Wilderness
    Sarvis Creek Wilderness
    The Sarvis Creek Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located south of Steamboat Springs, Colorado in the Routt national forest. -External links:*...

  • South San Juan Wilderness
    South San Juan Wilderness
    The South San Juan Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located east of Pagosa Springs, Colorado in the San Juan national forest.-External links:*...

  • Spanish Peaks Wilderness
    Spanish Peaks Wilderness
    The Spanish Peaks Wilderness is a 17,855 acre wilderness area in Huerfano County and Las Animas County, Colorado, USA, located 20 miles southwest of Walsenburg. All of the wilderness area is located on U.S...

  • Uncompahgre Wilderness
    Uncompahgre Wilderness
    The Uncompahgre Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in southwest Colorado comprising 102,721 acres...

  • Vasquez Peak Wilderness
    Vasquez Peak Wilderness
    The Vasquez Peak Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located southwest of Winter Park, Colorado. The wilderness established in 1993 in the Arapaho and Roosevelt national forests has of trails....

  • Weminuche Wilderness
    Weminuche Wilderness
    The Weminuche Wilderness is a wilderness area in southwest Colorado managed by the United States Forest Service as part of the San Juan National Forest on the west side of the Continental Divide and the Rio Grande National Forest on the east side of the divide. It is about 5 miles south east of...

  • West Elk Wilderness
    West Elk Wilderness
    The West Elk Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located northwest of Gunnison, Colorado in the Gunnison national forest....


  • Florida
    Florida
    Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

    • Alexander Springs Wilderness
      Alexander Springs Wilderness
      Alexander Springs Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Florida and was designated in 1984 by the United States Congress. The wilderness has a total of 7,941 acres and is within Ocala National Forest, which is the oldest National Forest east of the Mississippi River...

    • Big Gum Swamp Wilderness
      Big Gum Swamp Wilderness
      The Big Gum Swamp Wilderness is located in the Osceola National Forest, northeast of Lake City, Florida. The refuge was established on September 28, 1984.-External links:* at...

    • Billies Bay Wilderness
      Billies Bay Wilderness
      The Billies Bay Wilderness is part of Ocala National Forest. The wilderness was established on September 28, 1984. The mostly marshy and swampy nature of the area is indicated by the word 'bay' as part of the name, since this is a Floridian term for swamp...

    • Bradwell Bay Wilderness
      Bradwell Bay Wilderness
      The Bradwell Bay Wilderness is part of the United States National Wilderness Preservation System, located in the Panhandle. The 24,602 acre  wilderness was established in 1975. "Bay" in this case means "a recess of land, partly surrounded by hills," which, in this particular instance, is...

    • Cedar Keys Wilderness
    • Chassahowitzka Wilderness
  • Florida Keys Wilderness
  • Island Bay Wilderness
  • J.N. "Ding" Darling Wilderness
  • Juniper Prairie Wilderness
    Juniper Prairie Wilderness
    The Juniper Prairie Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Ocala National Forest in Florida, USA.-Area description:The Juniper Prairie Wilderness was established in 1984 and covers an area of about 54 square kilometers...

  • Lake Woodruff Wilderness
  • Little Lake George Wilderness
    Little Lake George Wilderness
    The Little Lake George Wilderness is part of Ocala National Forest. The refuge was established on September 28, 1984. The Wilderness is at the confluence of the St. Johns and Oklawaha Rivers.-Flora:...

  • Marjory Stoneman Douglas Wilderness
  • Mud Swamp/New River Wilderness
    Mud Swamp/New River Wilderness
    The Mud Swamp/New River Wilderness is part of Apalachicola National Forest, located in the Florida panhandle. The refuge was established on September 28, 1984....

  • Passage Key Wilderness
  • Pelican Island Wilderness
    Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge
    Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge is a United States National Wildlife Refuge located just off the western coast of Orchid Island in the Indian River Lagoon east of Sebastian, Florida. The refuge consists of a island that includes an additional of surrounding water and is located off the...

  • St. Marks Wilderness
    St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge
    St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge is one of the oldest wildlife refuges in the United States. Established in 1931 as a wintering ground for migratory birds, it encompasses 68,000 acres spread between Wakulla, Jefferson, and Taylor Counties in the state of Florida.The refuge includes several Gulf...


  • Georgia
    Georgia (U.S. state)
    Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...

    • Big Frog Wilderness
      Big Frog Wilderness
      The Big Frog Wilderness was designated in 1984 and currently consists of . Approximately are located in Georgia in the Chattahoochee National Forest and approximately are located in Tennessee in the Cherokee National Forest...

    • Blackbeard Island Wilderness
    • Blood Mountain Wilderness
      Blood Mountain Wilderness
      The Blood Mountain Wilderness was designated in 1991 and currently consists of . The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in Lumpkin County and Union County, Georgia. The Wilderness is managed by the United States Forest Service and is part of the National...

    • Brasstown Wilderness
      Brasstown Wilderness
      The Brasstown Wilderness was designated in 1986 and currently consists of . The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in Union County and Towns County, Georgia...

    • Cohutta Wilderness
      Cohutta Wilderness
      The Cohutta Wilderness was designated in 1975, expanded in 1986, and currently consists of . Approximately are located in Georgia in the Chattahoochee National Forest and approximately are located in Tennessee in the Cherokee National Forest...

  • Cumberland Island Wilderness
  • Ellicott Rock Wilderness
    Ellicott Rock Wilderness
    The Ellicott Rock Wilderness was designated in 1975 and currently consists of surrounding the point at which Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina come together. It is the only wilderness that straddles three states...

  • Mark Trail Wilderness
    Mark Trail Wilderness
    The Mark Trail Wilderness was designated in 1991 and currently consists of . It is named in honor of Mark Trail, a daily newspaper comic strip created by the American cartoonist Ed Dodd. The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in White, Towns, and Union...

  • Okefenokee Wilderness
    Okefenokee Wilderness
    Okefenokee Wilderness is an 353,981 acre U.S. Wilderness Area located in southeastern Georgia in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. It was established and governed under the Wilderness Act of 1974 when were designated as wilderness by...

  • Raven Cliffs Wilderness
    Raven Cliffs Wilderness
    The Raven Cliffs Wilderness was designated in 1986 and currently consists of . The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in White, Lumpkin, and Union Counties, Georgia...

  • Rich Mountain Wilderness
    Rich Mountain Wilderness
    The Rich Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Chattahoochee National Forest in Gilmer County, Georgia, in the United States. It was designated in 1986 and currently consists of of the that makes up the Rich Mountains...

  • Southern Nantahala Wilderness
    Southern Nantahala Wilderness
    The Southern Nantahala Wilderness was designated in 1984 and currently consists of . Approximately are located in Georgia in the Chattahoochee National Forest and approximately are located in North Carolina in the Nantahala National Forest. The Wilderness is managed by the United States Forest...

  • Tray Mountain Wilderness
    Tray Mountain Wilderness
    The Tray Mountain Wilderness was designated in 1986 and currently consists of . The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in Habersham, Rabun, Towns and White counties, Georgia and is managed in the Chattooga Ranger District...

  • Wolf Island Wilderness

  • Idaho
    Idaho
    Idaho is a state in the Rocky Mountain area of the United States. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans". Idaho was admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, as the 43rd state....

    • Big Jacks Creek Wilderness
      Big Jacks Creek Wilderness
      The Big Jacks Creek Wilderness is located on the high basalt plateaus of Owyhee County in southwestern Idaho in the western United States. Little Jacks Creek Wilderness is on its northwest border. About miles of Big Jacks Creek is classified as a wild river....

    • Bruneau – Jarbidge Rivers Wilderness
      Bruneau – Jarbidge Rivers Wilderness
      The Bruneau – Jarbidge Rivers Wilderness is located on the high basalt plateaus of Owyhee County in southwestern Idaho in the western United States. The wilderness area is named after and protects much of the Bruneau and Jarbidge Rivers and their canyons. Whitewater rafting is a popular...

    • Craters of the Moon National Wilderness Area
      Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
      Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a national monument and national preserve located in the Snake River Plain in central Idaho, U.S.A. It is along US 20 , between the small cities of Arco and Carey, at an average elevation of above sea level...

    • Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness
      Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness
      The Frank Church—River of No Return Wilderness Area is a protected wilderness area in Idaho. It was created in 1980 by the United States Congress as the River of No Return Wilderness Area, and renamed in 1984 as the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area in honor of U.S...

    • Gospel Hump Wilderness
      Gospel Hump Wilderness
      The Gospel Hump Wilderness is a wilderness area located east of Riggins in the state of Idaho. It received wilderness designation in 1978 through the passage of the Endangered American Wilderness Act and is managed by the Nez Perce National Forest....

    • Hells Canyon Wilderness (Oregon and Idaho)
  • Little Jacks Creek Wilderness
    Little Jacks Creek Wilderness
    The Little Jacks Creek Wilderness is located on the high basalt plateaus of Owyhee County in southwestern Idaho in the western United States. Big Jacks Creek Wilderness is on its southeast border. About miles of Little Jacks Creek is classified as a wild river....

  • North Fork Owyhee Wilderness
    North Fork Owyhee Wilderness
    The North Fork Owyhee Wilderness is located on the high basalt plateaus of Owyhee County in southwestern Idaho in the western United States. The rivers within it offer whitewater rapids up to Class IV. About miles of North Fork of the Owyhee River is classified as a wild river.-Geography:The...

  • Owyhee River Wilderness
    Owyhee River Wilderness
    The Owyhee River Wilderness is located on the high basalt plateaus of Owyhee County in southwestern Idaho in the western United States. The wilderness area is named after and protects the upper Owyhee River, its tributaries, and the surrounding desert canyon landscape. Whitewater rafting is a...

  • Pole Creek Wilderness
    Pole Creek Wilderness
    The Pole Creek Wilderness is located on the high basalt plateaus of Owyhee County in southwestern Idaho in the western United States. Its whitewater rapids are a popular attraction.-Geography:...

  • Sawtooth Wilderness
    Sawtooth Wilderness
    The Sawtooth Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Idaho. Managed by the U.S. Forest Service in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The Wilderness was upgraded in 1972 from "primitive area" status, affording greater protections of the habitat...

  • Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
    Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
    The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the states of Idaho and Montana, in the northwestern United States.At 1.3 million acres , it is one of the largest designated wilderness areas in the United States . It spans the Bitterroot Mountain Range, on the border between...


  • Illinois
    Illinois
    Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

    • Bald Knob Wilderness
      Bald Knob Wilderness
      The Bald Knob Wilderness is a 5,973-acre parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It is, by acreage, the largest wilderness area located within the U.S. state of Illinois...

    • Bay Creek Wilderness
      Bay Creek Wilderness
      The Bay Creek Wilderness is a parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It is located within the Shawnee National Forest in Pope County, Illinois...

    • Burden Falls Wilderness
      Burden Falls Wilderness
      The Burden Falls Wilderness is a 3,775-acre unit of the Shawnee National Forest. It is located in northwestern Pope County and southwestern Saline County, Illinois. The wilderness is characterized by roadless second-growth hardwood forest, punctuated by a small, seasonal waterfall on Burden Creek...

    • Clear Springs Wilderness
      Clear Springs Wilderness
      The Clear Springs Wilderness is a 4,730-acre parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It contains the LaRue-Pine Hills Ecological Area, a National Natural Landmark noted for a large and diverse population of snakes....

  • Crab Orchard Wilderness
    Crab Orchard Wilderness
    The Crab Orchard Wilderness is a parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It is located within the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge in Williamson County, Illinois.-Second-growth wilderness:...

  • Garden of the Gods Wilderness
    Garden of the Gods Wilderness
    The Garden of the Gods Wilderness is a parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It is located within the Shawnee National Forest in Hardin County, Pope County, Saline County, and Gallatin County in the U.S. state of Illinois...

  • Lusk Creek Wilderness
    Lusk Creek Wilderness
    The Lusk Creek Wilderness is a parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It is located within the Shawnee National Forest in Pope County, Illinois...

  • Panther Den Wilderness
    Panther Den Wilderness
    The Panther Den Wilderness is a parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It is located within the Shawnee National Forest in Union County in the U.S...


  • Indiana
    Indiana
    Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...

    • Charles C. Deam Wilderness

    Maine
    Maine
    Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...

    • Caribou-Speckled Mountain Wilderness
    • Moosehorn (Baring Unit) Wilderness
    • Moosehorn Wilderness

    Michigan
    Michigan
    Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....

    • Beaver Basin Wilderness
      Beaver Basin Wilderness
      The Beaver Basin Wilderness is a United States Wilderness Area located in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Alger County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It covers an area of . It borders of Lake Superior shoreline. The North Country Trail has of trail in the wilderness area....

    • Big Island Lake Wilderness
      Big Island Lake Wilderness
      Big Island Lake Wilderness is a remote protected area in the Munising Ranger District of the Hiawatha National Forest in the Upper Peninsula in the state of Michigan in the United States. The wilderness area is located about one-half mile northwest of the community of Steuben and northwest of...

    • Delirium Wilderness
      Delirium Wilderness
      Delirium Wilderness is a wilderness area in Chippewa County, within the Hiawatha National Forest in the U.S. state of Michigan.The Wilderness is forested, flat, and rolling, often characterized as a swamp, with elevations ranging from 590 to 890 feet...

    • Horseshoe Bay Wilderness
      Horseshoe Bay Wilderness
      The Horseshoe Bay Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Michigan. It borders Horseshoe Bay, a shallow bay that is part of the extreme northwest corner of Lake Huron adjacent to the Straits of Mackinac...

    • Huron Islands Wilderness
  • Isle Royale Wilderness
    Isle Royale National Park
    Isle Royale National Park is a U.S. National Park in the state of Michigan. Isle Royale, the largest island in Lake Superior, is over 45 miles in length and 9 miles wide at its widest point. The park is made of Isle Royale itself and approximately 400 smaller islands, along with any submerged...

  • Mackinac Wilderness
    Mackinac Wilderness
    The Mackinac Wilderness is a unit within the Hiawatha National Forest. It is located in Mackinac County, Michigan. The wilderness is accessible from M-123, which borders the unit. The nearest town is Moran, Michigan....

  • McCormick Wilderness
    McCormick Wilderness
    The McCormick Wilderness is a United States Wilderness Area located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It covers an area of about and is located east of the Baraga-Marquette county line...

  • Michigan Islands Wilderness
  • Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness
    Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness
    The Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness is a listed wilderness area within the Manistee National Forest. It is located north of Ludington, Michigan, and is best known for its 4 miles of undeveloped Lake Michigan shoreline.-Geology:...

  • Rock River Canyon Wilderness
    Rock River Canyon Wilderness
    The Rock River Canyon Wilderness is a unit within the Hiawatha National Forest. It is located in Alger County, Michigan. The wilderness is accessible from M-94, which runs south of the unit in a west-to-east direction...

  • Round Island Wilderness
    Round Island (Michigan)
    Round Island is an uninhabited island in Mackinac County of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is located in the Straits of Mackinac, which connect Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. The Native Americans called the island "Nissawinagong."...

  • Seney Wilderness
  • Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness
    Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness
    The Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness is a unit within the Ottawa National Forest. It is located in Baraga County and Houghton County within the U.S. state of Michigan. The wilderness is accessible from M-28, which runs south of the unit in a west-to-east direction...

  • Sylvania Wilderness
    Sylvania Wilderness
    Sylvania Wilderness is an protected area located a few miles west of Watersmeet, Michigan. Sylvania is located entirely within the bounds of the Ottawa National Forest, and is currently being managed as a wilderness area as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System by the U.S. Forest...


  • Minnesota
    Minnesota
    Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

    • Agassiz Wilderness
      Agassiz Wilderness
      Agassiz Wilderness was designated in 1976 by the United States Congress and has a total of 4,000 acres . It is located in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The wilderness is in Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge and is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...

    • Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
      Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
      The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness , is a wilderness area within the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota under the administration of the U.S. Forest Service...

    • Tamarac Wilderness
      Tamarac Wilderness
      The Tamarac Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Established by the United States Congress in 1976, Tamarac Wilderness is composed primarily of small lakes, wooded potholes, bogs and marshes...


    Missouri
    Missouri
    Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

    • Bell Mountain Wilderness
      Bell Mountain Wilderness
      The United States Congress designated the Bell Mountain Wilderness in 1980. The wilderness area now has a total of . Bell Mountain is located within the Potosi-Fredericktown Ranger District of the Mark Twain National Forest, south of Potosi, Missouri in the United States...

    • Devils Backbone Wilderness
      Devils Backbone Wilderness
      The Devils Backbone Wilderness is one of eight wilderness areas protected and preserved in the U.S. State of Missouri. The United States Congress designated the wilderness area in 1980, and it now has a total of 6,595 acres...

    • Hercules-Glades Wilderness
    • Irish Wilderness
      Irish Wilderness
      The Irish Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Missouri. The United States Congress designated it a wilderness in 1984. The Irish Wilderness is located within the Eleven Point Ranger District, of the Mark Twain National Forest, northeast of Alton, Missouri...

  • Mingo Wilderness
    Mingo Wilderness
    Mingo Wilderness is an 8,000 acre U.S. Wilderness Area located in southeastern Missouri in the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge. It was established and governed under the Wilderness Act of 1964....

  • Paddy Creek Wilderness
    Paddy Creek Wilderness
    The Paddy Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Missouri, United States. The United States Congress designated it wilderness in 1983. Paddy Creek Wilderness is located within the Houston-Rolla Ranger District, of the Mark Twain National Forest, northwest of Licking, Missouri....

  • Piney Creek Wilderness
    Piney Creek Wilderness
    The Piney Creek Wilderness is an wilderness area in the U.S. state of Missouri. The United States Congress designated it wilderness in 1980. The Piney Creek Wilderness is located within the Ava-Cassville-Willow Springs Ranger District, of the Mark Twain National Forest, east of Cassville, Missouri...

  • Rockpile Mountain Wilderness
    Rockpile Mountain Wilderness
    The Rockpile Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Missouri. It takes its name from an ancient circle of granite rock, piled by some earlier man on top of the mountain. It is located in Madison County, Missouri southeast of Bell Mountain and southwest of Fredericktown,...


  • Montana
    Montana
    Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...

    • Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
      Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
      Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness was created from existing National Forest lands in 1975 and is located in Montana and Wyoming, United States. The wilderness is partly in Gallatin, Custer and Shoshone National Forests and is composed of . The wilderness encompasses two distinct mountain ranges, namely...

    • Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness
      Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness
      The Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness is located in southwestern Montana, in the northwestern United States. It runs for 40 miles along both sides of the crest of the Anaconda Range, covering almost 250 square miles . To the north are the Sapphire Mountains, and to the south is the Big Hole Valley...

    • Bob Marshall Wilderness
      Bob Marshall Wilderness
      The Bob Marshall Wilderness is a wilderness area in Flathead National Forest of western Montana in the United States. It is named after Bob Marshall , an early forester, conservationist, and co-founder of The Wilderness Society. The Bob Marshall Wilderness extends for 60 miles along the...

    • Cabinet Mountains Wilderness
      Cabinet Mountains Wilderness
      The Cabinet Mountains Wilderness,created by an act of Congress in 1964,is located in the U.S. state of Montana. Protecting the wildest portions of the Cabinet Mountains and an integral part of Kootenai National Forest and Kaniksu National Forest, the wilderness had enjoyed more limited protection...

    • Gates of the Mountains Wilderness
      Gates of the Mountains Wilderness
      The Gates of the Mountains Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Montana. Created by an act of Congress in 1964, the wilderness is managed by Helena National Forest...

  • Great Bear Wilderness
    Great Bear Wilderness
    The Great Bear Wilderness is located in northern Montana, United States, within Flathead National Forest Created by an act of Congress in 1978, the wilderness comprises 286,700 acres and borders the Bob Marshall Wilderness on the north...

  • Lee Metcalf Wilderness
    Lee Metcalf Wilderness
    The Lee Metcalf Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Montana. Created by an act of Congress in 1983, the wilderness is in four separated parcels: Bear Trap Canyon unit, Spanish Peaks unit, Taylor-Hilgard unit, and Monument Mountains unit. The Bear Trap Canyon unit is managed by the U.S....

  • Medicine Lake Wilderness
    Medicine Lake Wilderness
    The Medicine Lake Wilderness is located in eastern Montana, in the United States. Preserved to ensure migratory birds have a safe haven during the spring and fall migrations, the wilderness is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and is within Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge.U.S....

  • Mission Mountains Wilderness
    Mission Mountains Wilderness
    The Mission Mountains Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Montana. Created by an act of Congress in 1975, the wilderness is within the Swan Lake Ranger District of the Flathead National Forest....

  • Rattlesnake Wilderness
    Rattlesnake Wilderness
    The Rattlesnake Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Montana. Created by an act of Congress in 1980, the wilderness is within Lolo National Forest and is located only 4 miles north of Missoula, Montana. The wilderness area is located adjacent to the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area.U.S...

  • Red Rock Lakes Wilderness
    Red Rock Lakes Wilderness
    The Red Rock Lakes Wilderness is within the Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in southwest Montana, United States. The wilderness occupies more than three fourths of the refuge and was set aside to enhance species preservation, especially for such waterfowl as the trumpeter swan...

  • Scapegoat Wilderness
    Scapegoat Wilderness
    The Scapegoat Wilderness consists of 239,936 acres spread across three different National Forests in the U.S. state of Montana. Created by an act of Congress in 1972, the wilderness is located in Lewis and Clark, Helena and Lolo National Forests...

  • Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
    Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
    The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the states of Idaho and Montana, in the northwestern United States.At 1.3 million acres , it is one of the largest designated wilderness areas in the United States . It spans the Bitterroot Mountain Range, on the border between...

  • UL Bend Wilderness
    UL Bend Wilderness
    The UL Bend Wilderness comprises 20,819 acres and is located in the U.S. state of Montana within the UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge, which in turn is also completely surrounded by the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. Bordering on the Fort Peck Reservoir, a portion of the Missouri...

  • Welcome Creek Wilderness
    Welcome Creek Wilderness
    The Welcome Creek Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Montana. Created by an act of Congress in 1978, the wilderness is within Lolo National Forest, and protects the northern portion of the Sapphire Mountains....


  • Nevada
    Nevada
    Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...

    • Alta Toquima Wilderness
      Alta Toquima Wilderness
      The Alta Toquima Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Toquima Range of Nye County, in the central section of the state of Nevada in the western United States. It covers an area of ,...

    • Arc Dome Wilderness
      Arc Dome Wilderness
      The Arc Dome Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Toiyabe Range of Nye County, in the central section of the state of Nevada in the western United States. It covers an area of approximately , Nevada’s largest Wilderness area...

    • Arrow Canyon Wilderness
      Arrow Canyon Wilderness
      Arrow Canyon Wilderness is a wilderness area located in Clark County in the U.S. state of Nevada. It received wilderness designation with the passage of the Clark County Conservation of Public Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002 and protects the northern portion of the Arrow Canyon Range...

    • Bald Mountain Wilderness
      Bald Mountain Wilderness
      The Bald Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in White Pine County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. The Wilderness lies within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and is administered by the U.S...

    • Becky Peak Wilderness
      Becky Peak Wilderness
      Becky Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area in White Pine County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Located north of the town of Mcgill, the Wilderness was created by the White Pine County Conservation, Recreation and Development Act of 2006 and is administered by the U.S...

    • Big Rocks Wilderness
    • Black Canyon Wilderness (Nevada)
      Black Canyon Wilderness (Nevada)
      The Black Canyon Wilderness in the state of Nevada is a wilderness area located in the Dry Lake Watershed along Dry Lake Valley at Black Canyon, west of the Great Basin Divide....

    • Black Rock Desert Wilderness
      Black Rock Desert Wilderness
      The Black Rock Desert Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located in the east arm of the Black Rock Desert playa east of the Black Rock Range and west of the Jackson Mountains....

    • Boundary Peak Wilderness
      Boundary Peak Wilderness
      The Boundary Peak Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the White Mountains of Esmeralda County, in the western section of the state of Nevada in the western United States....

    • Bridge Canyon Wilderness
    • Bristlecone Wilderness
      Bristlecone Wilderness
      Bristlecone Wilderness is a wilderness area in White Pine County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Located in the Egan Range approximately five miles west of the town of Mcgill, the Wilderness was created by the "White Pine County Conservation, Recreation and Development Act of 2006" and is...

    • Calico Mountains Wilderness
      Calico Mountains Wilderness
      Calico Mountains Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located in the Calico Mountains.Rockhounding, hunting, and dayhiking are in the wilderness. Photography of geologic formations and spring wildflowers is a pastime of local visitors...

    • Clover Mountains Wilderness
      Clover Mountains Wilderness
      Clover Mountains Wilderness is a large wilderness area southeast of Caliente, Nevada in southeast Lincoln County's border region with southwest Utah....

    • Currant Mountain Wilderness
      Currant Mountain Wilderness
      The Currant Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the White Pine Range of Nye County and White Pine County, in the eastern section of the state of Nevada in the western United States....

    • Death Valley Wilderness
    • Delamar Mountains Wilderness
    • East Fork High Rock Canyon Wilderness
      East Fork High Rock Canyon Wilderness
      The East Fork High Rock Canyon Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located on the northeast side of High Rock Canyon but does not include the 4x4 trail inside High Rock Canyon nor a 4x4 trail to the Yellow Hills.- External links :*...

    • East Humboldt Wilderness
      East Humboldt Wilderness
      The East Humboldt Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the East Humboldt Range of Elko County, in the northeast section of the state of Nevada in the western United States....

    • Eldorado Wilderness
    • Far South Egans Wilderness
    • Fortification Range Wilderness
      Fortification Range Wilderness
      Fortification Range Wilderness is a wilderness area in Lincoln County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. The Wilderness lies approximately southeast of the town of Ely and is administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management....

    • Goshute Canyon Wilderness
      Goshute Canyon Wilderness
      Goshute Canyon Wilderness is a wilderness area in northern White Pine County and southern Elko County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Located in the Cherry Creek Range north of the town of Mcgill, the Wilderness was created by the "White Pine County Conservation, Recreation and Development Act of...

    • Government Peak Wilderness
      Government Peak Wilderness
      Government Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area in the northern part of the Snake Range of White Pine County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Located approximately north of the town of Baker, the Wilderness was designated in 2006 and is administered by the U.S...

  • Grant Range Wilderness
    Grant Range Wilderness
    The Grant Range Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Grant Range of Nye County, in the central section of the state of Nevada in the western United States....

  • High Rock Canyon Wilderness
    High Rock Canyon Wilderness
    The High Rock Canyon Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located on the southwest side of High Rock Canyon and north of the Little High Rock Canyon Wilderness...

  • High Rock Lake Wilderness
    High Rock Lake Wilderness
    The High Rock Lake Wilderness is a wilderness area in Nevada containing the northern portion of the Calico Mountains. High Rock Lake, for which the wilderness was named, was created about 11,800 years ago after a large rockslide closed the outlet to High Rock and Little High Rock Canyons. This new...

  • High Schells Wilderness
    High Schells Wilderness
    The High Schells Wilderness is a wilderness area in White Pine County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. The Wilderness lies within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and is therefore administered by the U.S...

  • Highland Ridge Wilderness
    Highland Ridge Wilderness
    Highland Ridge Wilderness is a wilderness area in the southern part of the Snake Range of White Pine County, just south of Great Basin National Park, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Located approximately south of the town of Baker, the Wilderness was designated in 2006 and is administered by the U.S...

  • Ireteba Wilderness
  • Jarbidge Wilderness
    Jarbidge Wilderness
    The Jarbidge Wilderness is located in the upper elevations of the Jarbidge Mountains in northern Elko County, in northeastern Nevada in the western United States. Established in 1964, it was the first wilderness area in the state...

  • Jimbilnan Wilderness
  • Jumbo Springs Wilderness
  • La Madre Mountain Wilderness
  • Lime Canyon Wilderness
  • Little High Rock Canyon Wilderness
    Little High Rock Canyon Wilderness
    The Little High Rock Canyon Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located south of the High Rock Canyon Wilderness and west of the High Rock Lake Wilderness.- External links :*...

  • Meadow Valley Range Wilderness
  • Mormon Mountains Wilderness
  • Mount Charleston Wilderness
  • Mount Grafton Wilderness
    Mount Grafton Wilderness
    Mount Grafton Wilderness is a wilderness area in southern White Pine County and northern Lincoln County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. The Wilderness lies approximately south of the town of Ely and is administered by the U.S...

  • Mount Irish Wilderness
  • Mount Moriah Wilderness
  • Mount Rose Wilderness
  • Muddy Mountains Wilderness
  • Nellis Wash Wilderness
  • North Black Rock Range Wilderness
    North Black Rock Range Wilderness
    The North Black Rock Range Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located northeast of Soldier Meadows and south of the Summit Lake Indian Reservation.- External links :*...

  • North Jackson Mountains Wilderness
    North Jackson Mountains Wilderness
    The North Jackson Mountains Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located in the Jackson Mountains north of the South Jackson Mountains Wilderness and east of the Black Rock Desert Wilderness....

  • North McCullough Wilderness
  • Pahute Peak Wilderness
    Pahute Peak Wilderness
    The Pahute Peak Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located in the central Black Rock Range west of the Black Rock Desert Wilderness.- External links :*...

  • Parsnip Peak Wilderness
    Parsnip Peak Wilderness
    Parsnip Peak Wilderness is a wilderness in northeastern Lincoln County, Nevada. Its elevations range from . It received wilderness status in 2004....

  • Pinto Valley Wilderness
  • Quinn Canyon Wilderness
    Quinn Canyon Wilderness
    The Quinn Canyon Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Quinn Canyon Range of Nye County, in the central section of the state of Nevada in the western United States....

  • Rainbow Mountain Wilderness
  • Red Mountain Wilderness (Nevada)
  • Ruby Mountains Wilderness
    Ruby Mountains Wilderness
    The Ruby Mountains Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Ruby Mountains of Elko County, in the northeast section of the state of Nevada in the western United States. It covers an area of approximately 90,000 acres , and is administered by the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.-External...

  • Santa Rosa-Paradise Peak Wilderness
    Santa Rosa-Paradise Peak Wilderness
    The Santa Rosa-Paradise Peak Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the southern part of the Santa Rosa Range in Humboldt County, in northern Nevada in the western United States. It covers an area of approximately 31,000 acres , and is administered by the Humboldt-Toiyabe National...

  • Shellback Wilderness
    Shellback Wilderness
    Shellback Wilderness is a wilderness area in western White Pine County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. The Wilderness lies within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and is therefore administered by the U.S...

  • South Egan Range Wilderness
    South Egan Range Wilderness
    South Egan Range Wilderness is a wilderness area in Lincoln, White Pine, and Nye Counties in the U.S. state of Nevada. Located in the Egan Range approximately two miles east of the town of Lund, the Wilderness was created by the "White Pine County Conservation, Recreation and Development Act of...

  • South Jackson Mountains Wilderness
    South Jackson Mountains Wilderness
    The South Jackson Mountains Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located in the Jackson Mountains south of the North Jackson Mountains Wilderness and east of the Black Rock Desert Wilderness....

  • South McCullough Wilderness
  • South Pahroc Range Wilderness
  • Spirit Mountain Wilderness
    Spirit Mountain Wilderness
    Spirit Mountain Wilderness Area is a wilderness area located in the Newberry Mountains in Clark County, Nevada, northwest of Laughlin. Spirit Mountain lies within the area. It is managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service....

  • Table Mountain Wilderness
    Table Mountain Wilderness
    The Table Mountain Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Monitor Range of Nye County in central section of the state of Nevada. It is the third largest wilderness area in the state. The nearest city is Tonopah, Nevada. The Table Mountain Wilderness Area covers an area of , and is...

  • Tunnel Spring Wilderness
  • Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness
  • Weepah Spring Wilderness
    Weepah Spring Wilderness
    Weepah Spring Wilderness is a wilderness area in Lincoln and Nye Counties, in the U.S. state of Nevada. The Wilderness lies approximately south of the town of Alamo and is administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management....

  • White Pine Range Wilderness
    White Pine Range Wilderness
    The White Pine Range Wilderness is a wilderness area in southwestern White Pine County, in the U.S. state of Nevada.-Geography:The Wilderness lies within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and is therefore administered by the U.S...

  • White Rock Range Wilderness
  • Worthington Mountains Wilderness

  • New Hampshire
    New Hampshire
    New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...

    • Great Gulf Wilderness
    • Pemigewasset Wilderness
      Pemigewasset Wilderness
      The Pemigewasset Wilderness is a federally-designated Wilderness Area in the heart of New Hampshire's White Mountains. It is a part of the White Mountain National Forest....

    • Presidential Range-Dry River Wilderness
    • Sandwich Range Wilderness
    • Wild River Wilderness

    New Jersey
    New Jersey
    New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

    • Brigantine Wilderness
    • Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness
      Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
      The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is located in Morris County, New Jersey. Established in 1960, it is one of more than 550 refuges in the National Wildlife Refuge System.The refuge was declared a National Natural Landmark in May 1966...


    New Mexico
    New Mexico
    New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...

    • Aldo Leopold Wilderness
      Aldo Leopold Wilderness
      Aldo Leopold Wilderness, along with Gila Wilderness and Blue Range Wilderness, is part of New Mexico's Gila National Forest. It became part of the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1980 by an act of the United States Congress and has a total of...

    • Apache Kid Wilderness
      Apache Kid Wilderness
      Apache Kid Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Cibola National Forest in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Straddling a southern portion of the San Mateo Mountains of southwestern Socorro County, the area is characterized by rugged, narrow, and steep canyons bisecting high mountain...

    • Bandelier Wilderness
    • Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
      Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
      The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is a wilderness area located in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Established in 1984, the Wilderness is a desolate area of steeply eroded badlands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, with the exception of three parcels of private Navajo land...

    • Blue Range Wilderness
      Blue Range Wilderness
      Blue Range Wilderness, along with Aldo Leopold Wilderness and Gila Wilderness, is part of Gila National Forest. It is located on the western border of New Mexico where it adjoins the Blue Range Primitive Area of Arizona and west of U.S. Route 180 between Reserve and Glenwood. The wilderness is...

    • Bosque del Apache Wilderness
    • Capitan Mountains Wilderness
    • Carlsbad Caverns Wilderness
    • Cebolla Wilderness
  • Chama River Canyon Wilderness
    Chama River Canyon Wilderness
    Congress created the Chama River Canyon Wilderness in New Mexico in February 1978.  The wilderness area covers approximately on the Coyote Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest and the Carson National Forest....

  • Cruces Basin Wilderness
  • Dome Wilderness
    Dome Wilderness
    Congress created the Dome Wilderness in New Mexico in 1980. The wilderness area is around on the Jemez Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest. The wilderness area borders the Bandelier Wilderness in Bandelier National Monument....

  • Gila Wilderness
    Gila Wilderness
    Gila Wilderness was designated the world's first wilderness area on June 3, 1924. Along with Aldo Leopold Wilderness and Blue Range Wilderness, the wilderness is part of New Mexico's Gila National Forest. The wilderness is approximately from north to south and east to west...

  • Latir Peak Wilderness
    Latir Peak Wilderness
    Latir Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico, USA. Designated in 1980, the Wilderness is composed of dense forest, meadows, and alpine tundra on Latir Mesa in the northern portion...

  • Manzano Mountain Wilderness
  • Ojito Wilderness
  • Pecos Wilderness
    Pecos Wilderness
    The Pecos Wilderness is a protected wilderness area within the Santa Fe National Forest and Carson National Forest. The Pecos Wilderness is in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of north central New Mexico, easily accessible from Santa Fe, the state capital. Covering an area of , it is the second...

  • Sabinoso Wilderness
  • Salt Creek Wilderness
  • San Pedro Parks Wilderness
  • Sandia Mountain Wilderness
    Sandia Mountain Wilderness
    Sandia Mountain Wilderness, part of Cibola National Forest, is located east of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It became part of the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1978 by an act of the United States Congress and has a total of ....

  • West Malpais Wilderness
  • Wheeler Peak Wilderness
    Wheeler Peak Wilderness
    The Wheeler Peak Wilderness lies in the Carson National Forest of New Mexico. It contains the highest point in the state, Wheeler Peak.-History:...

  • White Mountain Wilderness
    White Mountain Wilderness
    The White Mountain Wilderness is a protected wilderness area within the Lincoln National Forest, Smokey Bear Ranger District. The White Mountain Wilderness is located in the Sierra Blanca Mountains of south central New Mexico, approximately north northwest of the town of Ruidoso.-History:The...

  • Withington Wilderness

  • North Carolina
    North Carolina
    North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

    • Birkhead Mountains Wilderness
      Birkhead Mountains Wilderness
      The Birkhead Mountains Wilderness was established by the 1984 North Carolina Wilderness Act, and it covers in the Uwharrie National Forest at the northern end of the Uwharrie Mountains, in central North Carolina...

    • Catfish Lake South Wilderness
    • Ellicott Rock Wilderness
      Ellicott Rock Wilderness
      The Ellicott Rock Wilderness was designated in 1975 and currently consists of surrounding the point at which Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina come together. It is the only wilderness that straddles three states...

    • Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness
      Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness
      Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness, created in 1975, covers in the Nantahala National Forest in western North Carolina and the Cherokee National Forest in eastern Tennessee, in the watersheds of the Slickrock and Little Santeetlah Creeks...

  • Linville Gorge Wilderness
    Linville Gorge Wilderness
    The Linville Gorge Wilderness is the third largest wilderness area in North Carolina and one of only two wilderness gorges in the Southern United States...

  • Middle Prong Wilderness
    Middle Prong Wilderness
    The Middle Prong Wilderness was designated in 1984 and it covers in the Pisgah National Forest in western North Carolina. The Wilderness Area spans steep, rugged high-elevation ridges ranging from 3,200 to over 6,400 feet. The area gets its name from the Middle Prong of the Pigeon River finding...

  • Pocosin Wilderness
  • Pond Pine Wilderness
  • Sheep Ridge Wilderness
  • Shining Rock Wilderness
    Shining Rock Wilderness
    The Shining Rock Wilderness is a protected Wilderness Area in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Its first have been part of the National Wilderness Preservation System since the System was created in 1964...

  • Southern Nantahala Wilderness
    Southern Nantahala Wilderness
    The Southern Nantahala Wilderness was designated in 1984 and currently consists of . Approximately are located in Georgia in the Chattahoochee National Forest and approximately are located in North Carolina in the Nantahala National Forest. The Wilderness is managed by the United States Forest...

  • Swanquarter Wilderness

  • North Dakota
    North Dakota
    North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....

    • Chase Lake Wilderness
      Chase Lake Wilderness
      The Chase Lake Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of North Dakota and at , it covers the majority of the land area of Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Managed by the U.S...

    • Lostwood Wilderness
      Lostwood Wilderness
      Lostwood Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. Created by an act of Congress in 1975, the wilderness covers an area of 5,577 acres . Contained within Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge, the wilderness is managed by the U.S...

    • Theodore Roosevelt Wilderness
      Theodore Roosevelt Wilderness
      Theodore Roosevelt Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. Created by an act of Congress in 1978, the wilderness covers an area of 29,920 acres and comprises over a third of the entire area of Theodore Roosevelt National Park both of which are managed by the National Park Service...


    Oklahoma
    Oklahoma
    Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...

    • Black Fork Mountain Wilderness
      Black Fork Mountain Wilderness
      Black Fork Mountain Wilderness is located in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Created by an act of Congress in 1984, the wilderness covers an area of 13,139 acres . Contained within Ouachita National Forest, the wilderness is managed by the U.S...

    • Upper Kiamichi River Wilderness
      Upper Kiamichi River Wilderness
      The Upper Kiamichi River Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Created by an act of Congress in 1988, the wilderness covers an area of 9,754 acres . Contained within Ouachita National Forest, the wilderness is managed by the U.S...

    • Wichita Mountains Wilderness
      Charon Gardens Wilderness Area
      The Charon's Garden Wilderness Area is part of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Oklahoma and is managed by the US Fish & Wildlife Service. It is located to the west of Medicine Park, Oklahoma and north of Lawton, Oklahoma. The wilderness area, dominated by rugged granite...


    Oregon
    Oregon
    Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern...

    • Badger Creek Wilderness
      Badger Creek Wilderness
      The Badger Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located east of Mount Hood in the northwestern Cascades of Oregon, United States. It is one of six designated wilderness areas in the Mount Hood National Forest; the others being Mark O. Hatfield, Salmon-Huckleberry, Mount Hood, Mount Jefferson,...

    • Black Canyon Wilderness (Oregon)
    • Boulder Creek Wilderness
      Boulder Creek Wilderness
      The Boulder Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Umpqua National Forest in the southern Cascade Range of Oregon, United States. It was designated by the United States Congress in 1984 and comprises ....

    • Bridge Creek Wilderness
      Bridge Creek Wilderness
      Bridge Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Ochoco Mountains of central Oregon, within the Ochoco National Forest. It was established in 1984 and comprises , making it one of the smallest Wilderness areas in the state.-Topography:...

    • Bull of the Woods Wilderness
      Bull of the Woods Wilderness
      The Bull of the Woods Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Mount Hood National Forest in the northwestern Cascades of Oregon, United States. It was created in 1984 and consists of including prime low-elevation old growth forest, about a dozen lakes of at least and many large creeks and...

    • Clackamas Wilderness
      Clackamas Wilderness
      The Clackamas Wilderness is made up of five different tracts of lands with no roads, scattered both left and right of the Clackamas River, approximately 50 miles down. These areas include Big Bottom, Memaloose Lake, Clackamas Canyon, Sisi Butte and South Fork Clackamas. The Clackamas Wilderness...

    • Copper Salmon Wilderness
      Copper Salmon Wilderness
      The Copper Salmon Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Southern Oregon Coast Range and is part of the Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest...

    • Cummins Creek Wilderness
      Cummins Creek Wilderness
      The Cummins Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Siuslaw National Forest on the Oregon coast. It is one of three wilderness areas created in the Siuslaw in 1984, along with Drift Creek and Rock Creek...

    • Diamond Peak Wilderness
      Diamond Peak Wilderness
      The Diamond Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area straddling the Cascade crest and includes the Diamond Peak Volcano. It is located within two National Forests - the Willamette National Forest on the west and the Deschutes National Forest on the east....

    • Drift Creek Wilderness
      Drift Creek Wilderness
      Drift Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Siuslaw National Forest on the Oregon Coast. It was created in 1984, along with two other small wilderness areas in the Forest - Cummins Creek Wilderness and Rock Creek Wilderness. The elevation of Drift Creek ranges from , and is characterized...

    • Eagle Cap Wilderness
      Eagle Cap Wilderness
      Eagle Cap Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Wallowa Mountains of northeastern Oregon , within the Wallowa–Whitman National Forest. The Wilderness was established in 1940. In 1964, it was included in the National Wilderness Preservation System...

    • Gearhart Mountain Wilderness
      Gearhart Mountain Wilderness
      Gearhart Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Fremont National Forest in Lake County and Klamath County, south-central Oregon. This area was established in 1943 as a Wild Area and designated as Wilderness with the Wilderness Act of 1964. In 1984, an additional were added...

    • Grassy Knob Wilderness
      Grassy Knob Wilderness
      Grassy Knob Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Klamath Mountains of southwestern Oregon, within the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. It was designated wilderness by the United States Congress in 1984 and now comprises a total of...

    • Hells Canyon Wilderness (Oregon and Idaho)
    • Kalmiopsis Wilderness
      Kalmiopsis Wilderness
      Kalmiopsis Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Klamath Mountains of southwestern Oregon, within the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. It was designated wilderness by the United States Congress in 1964 and now comprises a total of...

    • Lower White River Wilderness
      Lower White River Wilderness
      Lower White River Wilderness is a protected wilderness in the US State of Oregon on the southern part of Mount Hood. In 2009, Congress designated the area a National Wilderness preserve.The White River rises from White River Glacier in White River Canyon...

  • Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness
    Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness
    The Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness is a wilderness area located on the northern side of Mount Hood in the northwestern Cascades of the U.S. state of Oregon, near the Columbia River Gorge and within Mount Hood National Forest...

  • Menagerie Wilderness
    Menagerie Wilderness
    The Menagerie Wilderness is a designated wilderness area located near Mount Washington in the central Cascade Range of Oregon. It is situated near Highway 20 within the Willamette National Forest and is managed by the US Forest Service.- Geography :...

  • Middle Santiam Wilderness
    Middle Santiam Wilderness
    The Middle Santiam Wilderness is a wilderness area located near Mount Washington in the central Cascade Range of Oregon, U.S., within the Willamette National Forest.-Topography:...

  • Mill Creek Wilderness
    Mill Creek Wilderness
    Mill Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Ochoco National Forest of central Oregon. It was established in 1984 and comprises . Of the three wilderness areas in the Ochoco National Forest - Mill Creek, Bridge Creek, and Black Canyon - Mill Creek is the largest and most heavily...

  • Monument Rock Wilderness
    Monument Rock Wilderness
    The Monument Rock Wilderness Area is a wilderness area within the Malheur and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests in Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon. It was designated by the United States Congress in 1984 and comprises...

  • Mount Hood Wilderness
    Mount Hood Wilderness
    The Mount Hood Wilderness is a protected wilderness area inside the Mount Hood National Forest which is located in the U.S. state of Oregon. The area, covering , includes the peak of Mount Hood and its upper slopes, and ranges from temperate rain forests at the lower elevations, to glaciers and...

  • Mount Jefferson Wilderness
    Mount Jefferson Wilderness
    The Mount Jefferson Wilderness is a wilderness area located on and around Mount Jefferson in the central Cascade Range of Oregon in the United States. It is situated where the Willamette, Deschutes, and Mount Hood National Forests meet...

  • Mount Thielsen Wilderness
    Mount Thielsen Wilderness
    The Mount Thielsen Wilderness is a wilderness area located on and around Mount Thielsen in the southern Cascade Range of Oregon, United States. It is located within the Deschutes, Umpqua, and Winema National Forests...

  • Mount Washington Wilderness
    Mount Washington Wilderness
    The Mount Washington Wilderness is a wilderness area located on and around Mount Washington in the central Cascade Range of Oregon in the United States. The Wilderness Area was established in 1964 and comprises of the Willamette and Deschutes National Forests...

  • Mountain Lakes Wilderness
    Mountain Lakes Wilderness
    The Mountain Lakes Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Fremont–Winema National Forests in the southern Cascade Range of Oregon, USA. It surrounds a cluster of four overlapping shield volcanoes, the highest of which is Aspen Butte...

  • North Fork John Day Wilderness
    North Fork John Day Wilderness
    The North Fork John Day Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests, in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon....

  • North Fork Umatilla Wilderness
    North Fork Umatilla Wilderness
    The North Fork Umatilla Wilderness is a wilderness area located inside the Umatilla National Forest, in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon...

  • Opal Creek Wilderness
    Opal Creek Wilderness
    The Opal Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Willamette National Forest in the U.S. state of Oregon, on the border of the Mount Hood National Forest...

  • Oregon Badlands Wilderness
    Oregon Badlands Wilderness
    Oregon Badlands Wilderness is a wilderness area located east of Bend in Deschutes and Crook counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was created by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 30, 2009.The wilderness is situated on...

  • Oregon Islands Wilderness
  • Red Buttes Wilderness
    Red Buttes Wilderness
    The Red Buttes Wilderness is a wilderness area in Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest in the U.S. states of Oregon and California. It comprises , approximately of which is located in California, and in Oregon...

  • Roaring River Wilderness
    Roaring River Wilderness
    Roaring River Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Mount Hood National Forest in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. Southwest of Mount Hood, Oregon's tallest mountain, the area was created in 2009...

  • Rock Creek Wilderness
    Rock Creek Wilderness
    The Rock Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area comprising within the Siuslaw National Forest on the Oregon Coast. It was created in 1984, along with the Drift Creek Wilderness and Cummins Creek Wilderness.-Topography:...

  • Rogue–Umpqua Divide Wilderness
  • Salmon–Huckleberry Wilderness
  • Sky Lakes Wilderness
    Sky Lakes Wilderness
    The Sky Lakes Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Rogue River-Siskiyou and Winema National Forests in the southern Cascade Range of Oregon, U.S.. It comprises . of the area are located in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, and located in the Winema National Forest...

  • Soda Mountain Wilderness
    Soda Mountain Wilderness
    The Soda Mountain Wilderness is a protected wilderness area inside the Cascade–Siskiyou National Monument located in the U.S. state of Oregon adjacent to the California state border...

  • Spring Basin Wilderness
    Spring Basin Wilderness
    Spring Basin Wilderness is a wilderness area located near the town of Clarno in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was created by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 30, 2009....

  • Steens Mountain Wilderness
    Steens Mountain Wilderness
    Steens Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area surrounding a portion of Steens Mountain of southeastern Oregon, U.S. The reserve falls within the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area . Both the reserve and the CMPA are administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The...

  • Strawberry Mountain Wilderness
    Strawberry Mountain Wilderness
    Strawberry Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area of the Strawberry Mountain Range, within Malheur National Forest in the Blue Mountains of east Oregon. The area comprises , including mountain peaks and several lakes, and contains more than of hiking trails...

  • Table Rock Wilderness
    Table Rock Wilderness
    The Table Rock Wilderness is a small pocket wilderness designated in 1984in the western Cascade Mountains in northwestern Oregon, United States. The wilderness area protects of forest in the historic Molalla River–Pudding River drainage basin, some southeast of Molalla, Oregon and southeast of...

  • Three Arch Rocks Wilderness
  • Three Sisters Wilderness
    Three Sisters Wilderness
    The Three Sisters Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Cascade Range, within the Willamette and Deschutes National Forests in Oregon. It comprises 286,708 acres , making it the second largest Wilderness area in Oregon...

  • Waldo Lake Wilderness
    Waldo Lake Wilderness
    Waldo Lake Wilderness is a wilderness area surrounding Waldo Lake in the central Oregon Cascades. It is located within the Willamette National Forest...

  • Wenaha–Tucannon Wilderness
  • Wild Rogue Wilderness
    Wild Rogue Wilderness
    The Wild Rogue Wilderness is a wilderness area surrounding the eighty-four mile Wild and Scenic portion of the Rogue River in southwestern Oregon, U.S. to protect the watershed. The Wilderness was established in 1987 and now comprises...


  • South Carolina
    South Carolina
    South Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...

    • Cape Romain Wilderness
    • Congaree National Park Wilderness
    • Ellicott Rock Wilderness
      Ellicott Rock Wilderness
      The Ellicott Rock Wilderness was designated in 1975 and currently consists of surrounding the point at which Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina come together. It is the only wilderness that straddles three states...

    • Hell Hole Bay Wilderness
  • Little Wambaw Swamp Wilderness
  • Wambaw Creek Wilderness
  • Wambaw Swamp Wilderness

  • Tennessee
    Tennessee
    Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...

    • Bald River Gorge Wilderness
      Bald River Gorge Wilderness
      Bald River Gorge Wilderness is a wilderness area of Cherokee National Forest that lies within Monroe County in the U.S. state of Tennessee, designated in 1984. Its elevation is above sea level. It is administered by the United States Forest Service....

    • Big Frog Wilderness
      Big Frog Wilderness
      The Big Frog Wilderness was designated in 1984 and currently consists of . Approximately are located in Georgia in the Chattahoochee National Forest and approximately are located in Tennessee in the Cherokee National Forest...

    • Big Laurel Branch Wilderness
      Big Laurel Branch Wilderness
      Designated by the United States Congress in 1986, the Big Laurel Branch Wilderness is a wilderness area within Carter County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Its elevation is above sea level.-References:...

    • Citico Creek Wilderness
      Citico Creek Wilderness
      Citico Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Cherokee National Forest in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The wilderness contains the entire upper drainage of Citico Creek, which consists of the north and south forks and at least eight tributaries...

  • Cohutta Wilderness
    Cohutta Wilderness
    The Cohutta Wilderness was designated in 1975, expanded in 1986, and currently consists of . Approximately are located in Georgia in the Chattahoochee National Forest and approximately are located in Tennessee in the Cherokee National Forest...

  • Gee Creek Wilderness
    Gee Creek Wilderness
    Designated in 1975, the Gee Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area within Polk County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Its elevation is above sea level. Gee Creek Wilderness is the smallest wilderness in the Cherokee National Forest.-References:...

  • Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness
    Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness
    Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness, created in 1975, covers in the Nantahala National Forest in western North Carolina and the Cherokee National Forest in eastern Tennessee, in the watersheds of the Slickrock and Little Santeetlah Creeks...

  • Little Frog Mountain Wilderness
  • Pond Mountain Wilderness
  • Sampson Mountain Wilderness
  • Unaka Mountain Wilderness

  • Texas
    Texas
    Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...

    • Big Slough Wilderness
    • Guadalupe Mountains Wilderness
    • Indian Mounds Wilderness
  • Little Lake Creek Wilderness
  • Turkey Hill Wilderness
  • Upland Island Wilderness

  • Utah
    Utah
    Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

    • Ashdown Gorge Wilderness
      Ashdown Gorge Wilderness
      The Ashdown Gorge Wilderness is located in southwestern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region. The wilderness is within the Dixie National Forest adjacent to Cedar Breaks National Monument and characterized by extremely steep-walled canyons cut through the west rim of the Markagunt...

    • Beartrap Canyon Wilderness
      Beartrap Canyon Wilderness
      Beartrap Canyon Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to the Kolob Canyons region of Zion National Park, it encompasses and protects part of Beartrap Canyon Creek, a...

    • Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
      Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
      The Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness is a wilderness area located in northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region. The jagged mountains and gently sloping alluvial plain of the Beaver Dam Mountains straddle the border between the two states...

    • Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness
      Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness
      The Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness is located in western Colorado and eastern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region approximately west of Grand Junction, Colorado. The wilderness lies on the northwest flank of the Uncompahgre Plateau...

    • Blackridge Wilderness
      Blackridge Wilderness
      Blackridge Wilderness is a wilderness area in the state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to the Kolob Canyons section of Zion National Park, it protects a Black Ridge, formed by the Hurricane Fault, as well as a...

    • Box-Death Hollow Wilderness
      Box-Death Hollow Wilderness
      Box-Death Hollow Wilderness is a wilderness area located in south-central Utah, USA, on the Dixie National Forest. Vertical gray-orange walls of Navajo sandstone stand above two canyon tributaries of the Escalante River in Box-Death Hollow...

    • Canaan Mountain Wilderness
      Canaan Mountain Wilderness
      Canaan Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009...

    • Cedar Mountain Wilderness
      Cedar Mountain Wilderness
      The Cedar Mountain Wilderness is located in northwestern Utah, USA, just south of Interstate 80. The vegetation on the upper elevations of the Cedar Mountains is dominated by junipers . The foothill and valley regions include mixed desert shrubs. Cheatgrass is prevalent over large areas burned by...

    • Cottonwood Canyon Wilderness
      Cottonwood Canyon Wilderness
      Cottonwood Canyon Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to the southern edge of the Dixie National Forest, it encompasses and protects a transition zone between the...

    • Cottonwood Forest Wilderness
      Cottonwood Forest Wilderness
      Cottonwood Forest Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located within the Dixie National Forest, it is adjacent to a desert tortoise reserve and the Cottonwood Canyon Wilderness....

    • Cougar Canyon Wilderness
      Cougar Canyon Wilderness
      Cougar Canyon Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009...

  • Dark Canyon Wilderness
    Dark Canyon Wilderness
    Dark Canyon Wilderness, in the heart of southeast Utah's canyon country, is named for its high steep walls that narrow in the lower section so that they block the light in the morning and late afternoon...

  • Deep Creek Wilderness
    Deep Creek Wilderness
    Deep Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. Together with the Deep Creek North Wilderness it protects . It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to northeastern corner of Zion National Park, it...

  • Deep Creek North Wilderness
    Deep Creek North Wilderness
    Deep Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Together with the Deep Creek Wilderness to the south it encompasses and protects much of Deep Creek, a tributary of the Wild & Scenic...

  • Deseret Peak Wilderness
    Deseret Peak Wilderness
    The Deseret Peak Wilderness is located in the Stansbury Mountains of Tooele County, Utah, near the towns of Tooele and Grantsville, not far from the Great Salt Lake. It is part of both the Uinta and the Wasatch-Cache National Forests. This semi-arid wilderness is part of the Great Basin ecosystem...

  • Doc's Pass Wilderness
    Doc's Pass Wilderness
    Doc's Pass Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to Nevada in the northwestern corner of Washington County, it protects a portion of the Bull Valley Mountains and the...

  • Goose Creek Wilderness
    Goose Creek Wilderness
    Goose Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to the northern boundary of Zion National Park, it protects a portion of the upper reaches of Goose Creek, a...

  • High Uintas Wilderness
    High Uintas Wilderness
    The High Uintas Wilderness is a wilderness area located in northeastern Utah, United States. The wilderness covers the Uinta Mountains, encompassing parts of Duchesne and Summit counties. Designated as a wilderness in 1984, the area is located within parts of Ashley National Forest and Wasatch...

  • LaVerkin Creek Wilderness
    LaVerkin Creek Wilderness
    LaVerkin Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to the Kolob Canyons region of Zion National Park, it encompasses and protects the upper headwaters of LaVerkin...

  • Lone Peak Wilderness
    Lone Peak Wilderness
    The Lone Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Uinta and the Wasatch-Cache National Forest in the U.S. state of Utah.The Lone Peak Wilderness was established in 1978 as part of the Endangered American Wilderness Act and was the only designated wilderness area in Utah until the...

  • Mount Naomi Wilderness
    Mount Naomi Wilderness
    Mount Naomi Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Wasatch-Cache National Forest in the U.S. state of Utah. It lies between the Logan River and the Utah-Idaho state line northeast of Logan, Utah.-Topography:...

  • Mount Nebo Wilderness
  • Mount Olympus Wilderness
  • Mount Timpanogos Wilderness
    Mount Timpanogos Wilderness
    Mount Timpanogos Wilderness is a wilderness area protecting Mount Timpanogos and the surrounding area. It is located in the front range of the Wasatch Mountain Range, between American Fork Canyon on the north and Provo Canyon on the south, within the Uinta National Forest in the U.S. state of Utah...

  • Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
    Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
    The Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness is a wilderness area located in northern Arizona and southern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region. The wilderness is composed of broad plateaus, tall escarpments, and deep canyons....

  • Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness
    Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness
    Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Dixie National Forest in the U.S. state of Utah. It is the fourth-largest wilderness area located entirely within the state...

  • Red Butte Wilderness
    Red Butte Wilderness
    Red Butte Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to Kolob Canyons section of Zion National Park, it encompasses and protects much of the Red Butte...

  • Red Mountain Wilderness (Utah)
    Red Mountain Wilderness (Utah)
    Not to be confused with Red Mountain Wilderness , which is a separate entityThe Red Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located six miles northeast of St...

  • Slaughter Creek Wilderness
    Slaughter Creek Wilderness
    Slaughter Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009...

  • Taylor Creek Wilderness
    Taylor Creek Wilderness
    Taylor Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to the Kolob Canyons region of Zion National Park, it encompasses and protects the upper headwaters of Taylor Creek,...

  • Twin Peaks Wilderness
  • Wellsville Mountain Wilderness
  • Zion Wilderness
    Zion Wilderness
    Zion Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Utah. Designated March 30, 2009 as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, Zion Wilderness is found within the boundaries of Zion National Park and is managed by the National Park Service...


  • Vermont
    Vermont
    Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...

    • Big Branch Wilderness
    • Breadloaf Wilderness
    • Bristol Cliffs Wilderness
    • George D. Aiken Wilderness
  • Glastenbury Wilderness
    Glastenbury Wilderness
    The Glatenbury Wilderness is located in Green Mountain National Forest in the U.S. state of Vermont. The wilderness is traversed by the Appalachian Trail, coinciding with the Long Trail, and contains several other hiking routes as well. Glastenbury Mountain is at the north end of the wilderness,...

  • Joseph Battell Wilderness
  • Lye Brook Wilderness
    Lye Brook Wilderness
    Lye Brook Wilderness is a wilderness area located northwest of Stratton, Vermont, within the Green Mountain National Forest. It is named after Lye Brook, which flows through the western half of the Wilderness...

  • Peru Peak Wilderness

  • Virginia
    Virginia
    The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

    • Barbours Creek Wilderness
    • Beartown Wilderness
    • Brush Mountain Wilderness
    • Brush Mountain East Wilderness
    • Garden Mountain Wilderness
    • Hunting Camp Creek Wilderness
    • James River Face Wilderness
    • Kimberling Creek Wilderness
  • Lewis Fork Wilderness
  • Little Dry Run Wilderness
  • Little Wilson Creek Wilderness
  • Mountain Lake Wilderness
    Mountain Lake Wilderness
    Mountain Lake Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. The wilderness area is located next to privately owned Mountain Lake, and consists of in Virginia and in West Virginia....

  • Peters Mountain Wilderness
  • Priest Wilderness
    Priest Wilderness
    The Priest Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the Glenwood/Pedlar Ranger District of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. The wilderness area is located just south of the Tye River, the Three Ridges Wilderness, and Virginia State Route 56...

  • Raccoon Branch Wilderness
  • Ramseys Draft Wilderness
  • Rich Hole Wilderness
    Rich Hole Wilderness
    Rich Hole Wilderness is a designated wilderness area in the James River Ranger District of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests of Virginia in the United States. The wilderness area was established in 1988 and comprises...

  • Rough Mountain Wilderness
    Rough Mountain Wilderness
    Rough Mountain Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the Warm Springs Ranger District of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. The wilderness area is located on Rough Mountain and consists of . Rough Mountain Wilderness ranges in elevation from to at Griffin Knob...

  • Saint Mary's Wilderness
    Saint Mary's Wilderness
    Saint Mary's Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. The wilderness area is located next to the Blue Ridge Parkway near the Parkway's northern terminus and consists of . Saint Mary's Wilderness is the largest Virginia Wilderness on national...

  • Shawvers Run Wilderness
  • Shenandoah Wilderness
  • Stone Mountain Wilderness
  • Three Ridges Wilderness
    Three Ridges Wilderness
    Three Ridges Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the Glenwood/Pedlar Ranger District of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. The wilderness area is located just east of the Blue Ridge Parkway between the Tye River and Wintergreen Ski Resort.It is separated from the boundary of...

  • Thunder Ridge Wilderness

  • Washington

    • Alpine Lakes Wilderness
      Alpine Lakes Wilderness
      The Alpine Lakes Wilderness is a large wilderness area spanning the Cascade Range of Washington state in the United States. The wilderness is located in parts of Wenatchee National Forest and Snoqualmie National Forest, and is approximately bounded by Interstate 90 and Snoqualmie Pass to the south...

    • Boulder River Wilderness
      Boulder River Wilderness
      Boulder River Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in the western Cascade Range of Washington state.-Topography:...

    • Buckhorn Wilderness
      Buckhorn Wilderness
      The Buckhorn Wilderness is a mountainous wilderness area on the northeastern Olympic Peninsula in Washington, USA. Named after Buckhorn Mountain , the wilderness abuts the eastern boundary of Olympic National Park which includes nearby Mount Constance , Inner Constance , Warrior Peak , and Mount...

    • Clearwater Wilderness
      Clearwater Wilderness
      Clearwater Wilderness, a small wilderness created by Congress in the 1984 under the 1964 Wilderness Act establishing the National Wilderness Preservation System. It is located in northeast Pierce County, southeast of Tacoma in the South Cascade Range in Washington, US...

    • Colonel Bob Wilderness
      Colonel Bob Wilderness
      Colonel Bob Wilderness is a 48 km2 protected area located in the southwest corner of Olympic National Forest in Washington State. It is named after 19th century orator Robert Green Ingersoll. Lake Quinault lies about 15 miles to the west. Elevations in the wilderness vary from 300 to 4,509...

    • Glacier Peak Wilderness
      Glacier Peak Wilderness
      The Glacier Peak Wilderness, created by the US Forest Service in 1960 by efforts of the , four years before the 1964 wilderness legislation of the Congress, is located within portions of Chelan County, Snohomish County, and Skagit Counties in the North Cascades of Washington...

    • Glacier View Wilderness
      Glacier View Wilderness
      Glacier View Wilderness is a 3,123 acre Wilderness adjacent to Mount Rainier National Park on the west side in Washington State. It was designated as wilderness in 1984.- Access :...

    • Goat Rocks Wilderness
      Goat Rocks Wilderness
      Goat Rocks Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in Washington, United States. Consisting of portions of Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and Gifford Pinchot National Forest on the crest of the Cascade Range south of U.S...

    • Henry M. Jackson Wilderness
      Henry M. Jackson Wilderness
      The Henry M. Jackson Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the state of Washington, United States.-History:The Henry M. Jackson Wilderness was created by the 1984 Washington Wilderness Act and named after former US Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington...

    • Indian Heaven Wilderness
      Indian Heaven Wilderness
      Indian Heaven Wilderness is a protected area located inside the Gifford Pinchot National Forest of southwestern Washington state. Originally known to the Indians as "Sahalee Tyee," the area has been and remains culturally important to Native Americans...

  • Juniper Dunes Wilderness
  • Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness
    Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness
    Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness is a protected wilderness area located within the Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests in Washington State. The Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness was designated with the passage of the Washington Wilderness Act of 1984, on lands occupied by the old Chelan Division...

  • Mount Adams Wilderness
    Mount Adams Wilderness
    The Mount Adams Wilderness has of ecologically complex and geologically active land. Weather differs between the dry eastside and moist westside of the mountain. At , Mount Adams is one of the major Cascade mountains. The wilderness area is on the west side of the mountain and is part of the...

  • Mount Baker Wilderness
    Mount Baker Wilderness
    Mount Baker Wilderness in northern Washington, USA,contains . Its eastern border is shared with the boundary of the North Cascades National Park for a distance of 40 miles . The Wilderness extends from State Route 20 north to the Canadian border...

  • Mount Rainier Wilderness
    Mount Rainier Wilderness
    Mount Rainier Wilderness is a designated wilderness area located within Mount Rainier National Park in the Cascade Range of western Washington, United States.-External links:* - Mount Rainier National Park* - Wilderness.net...

  • Mount Skokomish Wilderness
    Mount Skokomish Wilderness
    Mount Skokomish Wilderness is a designated wilderness area in the Olympic National Forest on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington in the United States. The wilderness area was established in 1984 and comprises . It is administered by the US Forest Service....

  • Noisy-Diobsud Wilderness
    Noisy-Diobsud Wilderness
    The Noisy-Diobsud Wilderness is a relatively small wilderness area in northwestern Washington state adjacent to North Cascades National Park. Created in 1984, the Noisy-Diobsud contains of steep valleys, subalpine lakes, and the summits of Anderson Butte and Mount Watson...

  • Norse Peak Wilderness
    Norse Peak Wilderness
    Norse Peak Wilderness is located in central Washington in the United States. It protects the portion of the Cascade Range north of Chinook Pass , south of Naches Pass , and east of Mt. Rainier National Park. This 50,923 acre wilderness is named for a prominent peak which overlooks Crystal Mountain...

  • Olympic Wilderness
    Olympic Wilderness
    Olympic Wilderness is a protected area comprising over 95% of Olympic National Park in Washington State. It includes of Pacific Ocean coastline. It is the largest wilderness area in Washington.- External links :* * *...

  • Pasayten Wilderness
    Pasayten Wilderness
    The Pasayten Wilderness is a 2145 km². protected area located within Okanogan National Forest and Mount Baker National Forest in Washington State, centered on the Three Forks of the Pasayten River, a tributary of the Similkameen River. The northern boundary of the wilderness is the Canadian...

  • Salmo-Priest Wilderness
    Salmo-Priest Wilderness
    Salmo-Priest Wilderness is a 41,335 acre wilderness area located in the Selkirk Mountains in the northeast corner of Washington state, within the Colville National Forest and the Kaniksu National Forest.-Topography:...

  • San Juan Wilderness
    San Juan Wilderness
    San Juan Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the San Juan Archipelago in northwestern Washington, United States. The wilderness designation protects 81 of the 83 islands that make up the San Juan Islands National Wildlife Refuge scattered over ....

  • Stephen Mather Wilderness
    Stephen Mather Wilderness
    The Stephen Mather Wilderness is a wilderness area honoring Stephen Mather, the first director of the National Park Service. It is located within North Cascades National Park, Lake Chelan National Recreation Area, and Ross Lake National Recreation Area in the North Cascade Range of Washington,...

  • Tatoosh Wilderness
    Tatoosh Wilderness
    The Tatoosh Wilderness, located in Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, is managed by the U.S. Forest Service and protects . In 1984 it was officially designated as wilderness by Congress....

  • The Brothers Wilderness
    The Brothers Wilderness
    The Brothers Wilderness area is located in the Olympic National Forest on the eastern side of the Olympic Peninsula south of Buckhorn Wilderness and north of Mt. Skokomish Wilderness. The area was created in 1984 and now includes . The Brothers wilderness is named after The Brothers peaks which...

  • Trapper Creek Wilderness
    Trapper Creek Wilderness
    The small Trapper Creek Wilderness area consists of in southern Washington in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The wilderness covers nearly the entire Trapper Creek drainage and is the only pristine anadromous fish habitat in the Wind River watershed. The terrain is very steep and rugged and...

  • Washington Islands Wilderness
    Washington Islands Wilderness
    Washington Islands Wilderness is a protected area consisting of more than 600 islands, rocks, and reefs belonging to the three Washington Islands National Wildlife Refuges in Washington state...

  • Wenaha–Tucannon Wilderness
  • Wild Sky Wilderness
    Wild Sky Wilderness
    The Wild Sky Wilderness is a wilderness area in the western Cascade Range of Washington state. The wilderness is within the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest north of the U.S. Highway 2 towns of Index and Skykomish. The wilderness flanks, but does not include, the North Fork Skykomish River...

  • William O. Douglas Wilderness
    William O. Douglas Wilderness
    The William O. Douglas Wilderness is a designated wilderness located in central portion of the U.S. state of Washington. It includes 168,232 acres located between the U.S. Route 12 and State Route 410 and is jointly administered by the Snoqualmie National Forest and the Gifford Pinchot National...

  • Wonder Mountain Wilderness
    Wonder Mountain Wilderness
    Wonder Mountain Wilderness is a designated wilderness area encompassing Wonder Mountain in the Olympic National Forest on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington in the United States. The wilderness was established in 1984 and comprises . It borders Olympic National Park and is administered by the US...


  • West Virginia
    West Virginia
    West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian and Southeastern regions of the United States, bordered by Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Ohio to the northwest, Pennsylvania to the northeast and Maryland to the east...

    • Big Draft Wilderness
    • Cranberry Wilderness
      Cranberry Wilderness
      The Cranberry Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness area in the Monongahela National Forest of southeast West Virginia, USA. Its name derives from the nearby Cranberry Glades as well as from the Cranberry River and Cranberry Mountain...

    • Dolly Sods Wilderness
      Dolly Sods Wilderness
      The Dolly Sods Wilderness — originally simply Dolly Sods — is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA, and is part of the Monongahela National Forest of the U.S. Forest Service ....

  • Laurel Fork North Wilderness
    Laurel Fork North Wilderness
    Laurel Fork North Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the Greenbrier Ranger District of Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. The Wilderness protects high-elevation lands along Laurel Fork and is bordered by Middle Mountain to the west. It is a companion to Laurel Fork South...

  • Laurel Fork South Wilderness
    Laurel Fork South Wilderness
    Laurel Fork South Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the Greenbrier Ranger District of Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. The Wilderness protects high-elevation lands along Laurel Fork and is bordered by Middle Mountain to the west. It is a companion to Laurel Fork North...

  • Mountain Lake Wilderness
    Mountain Lake Wilderness
    Mountain Lake Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. The wilderness area is located next to privately owned Mountain Lake, and consists of in Virginia and in West Virginia....

  • Otter Creek Wilderness
    Otter Creek Wilderness
    The Otter Creek Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness area located in the Cheat-Potomac Ranger District of Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. The Wilderness sits in a bowl-shaped valley formed by Otter Creek, between McGowan Mountain and Shavers Mountain in Tucker County and Randolph County,...

  • Roaring Plains West Wilderness
    Roaring Plains West Wilderness
    The Roaring Plains West Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA. It is part of the Monongahela National Forest and includes Mount Porte Crayon, the sixth highest point in the state....

  • Spice Run Wilderness
    Spice Run Wilderness
    Spice Run Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness area within the Monongahela National Forest of West Virginia, USA. Fairly remote, it has no passenger car access whatever.-Access:...


  • Wisconsin
    Wisconsin
    Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

    • Blackjack Springs Wilderness
      Blackjack Springs Wilderness
      The Blackjack Springs Wilderness is a wilderness area northeast of Eagle River, Wisconsin. It is located within the Nicolet unit of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest and is administered by the US Forest Service. The area protects four large, crystal-clear springs at the headwaters of...

    • Gaylord Nelson Wilderness
      Gaylord Nelson Wilderness
      The Gaylord Nelson Wilderness is a wilderness area located within Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, off the Bayfield Peninsula of northern Wisconsin. Of the twenty-two Apostle Islands, the wilderness area fully or partially covers eighteen....

    • Headwaters Wilderness
    • Porcupine Lake Wilderness
  • Rainbow Lake Wilderness
  • Whisker Lake Wilderness
  • Wisconsin Islands Wilderness

  • Wyoming
    Wyoming
    Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...

    • Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
      Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
      Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness was created from existing National Forest lands in 1975 and is located in Montana and Wyoming, United States. The wilderness is partly in Gallatin, Custer and Shoshone National Forests and is composed of . The wilderness encompasses two distinct mountain ranges, namely...

    • Bridger Wilderness
      Bridger Wilderness
      The Bridger Wilderness is located in Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming, United States. Originally established in 1931 as a primitive area, the 428,169 acre region was redesignated as a wilderness in 1964 and expanded to the current size in 1984...

    • Cloud Peak Wilderness
      Cloud Peak Wilderness
      The Cloud Peak Wilderness is located in north central Wyoming in the United States. Entirely within Bighorn National Forest, the wilderness was established in 1984 in an effort to preserve the wildest section of the Bighorn Mountains...

    • Encampment River Wilderness
      Encampment River Wilderness
      The Encampment River Wilderness is a designated wilderness area located in south central Wyoming in the United States. Entirely within Medicine Bow National Forest, the wilderness was designated to increase protection of the Encampment River and the canyon through which it flows.U.S. Wilderness...

    • Fitzpatrick Wilderness
      Fitzpatrick Wilderness
      The Fitzpatrick Wilderness is located in Shoshone National Forest in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The wilderness was originally known as the Glacier Primitive Area, but was redesignated a wilderness in 1976....

  • Gros Ventre Wilderness
    Gros Ventre Wilderness
    The Gros Ventre Wilderness is located in Bridger-Teton National Forest in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Most of the Gros Ventre Range is located within the wilderness.U.S. Wilderness Areas do not allow motorized or mechanized vehicles, including bicycles...

  • Huston Park Wilderness
    Huston Park Wilderness
    The Huston Park Wilderness is located in south central Wyoming in the United States. Entirely within Medicine Bow National Forest, the wilderness was designated in 1984 to preserve the northernmost section of the central Rocky Mountains, an area of high mountain peaks and coniferous forest.U.S....

  • Jedediah Smith Wilderness
    Jedediah Smith Wilderness
    The Jedediah Smith Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Designated wilderness by Congress in 1984, Jedediah Smith Wilderness is within Caribou-Targhee National Forest and borders Grand Teton National Park. Spanning along the western slopes of the Teton Range, the wilderness ensures a...

  • North Absaroka Wilderness
    North Absaroka Wilderness
    The North Absaroka Wilderness is located in Shoshone National Forest in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It lies adjacent to the eastern border of Yellowstone National Park.U.S. Wilderness Areas do not allow motorized or mechanized vehicles, including bicycles...

  • Platte River Wilderness
    Platte River Wilderness
    The Platte River Wilderness is primarily located in south central Wyoming, with a small section extending into Colorado in the United States. Located entirely within Medicine Bow - Routt National Forest, the wilderness was created in 1984 to protect the forestlands adjacent to the North Platte River...

  • Popo Agie Wilderness
    Popo Agie Wilderness
    Popo Agie Wilderness is located within Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, United States. The wilderness consists of 101,870 acres on the east side of the continental divide in the Wind River Range. Originally set aside as a primitive area in 1932, in 1984 the Wyoming Wilderness Act was passed...

  • Savage Run Wilderness
    Savage Run Wilderness
    The Savage Run Wilderness is located in south central Wyoming in the United States. Entirely within Medicine Bow National Forest, the wilderness was designated in 1978 in an effort to protect vital rangeland for a large elk population....

  • Teton Wilderness
    Teton Wilderness
    Teton Wilderness is located in Wyoming, United States. Created in 1964, the Teton Wilderness is located within Bridger-Teton National Forest and consists of 585,238 acres . The wilderness is bordered on the north by Yellowstone National Park and to the west by Grand Teton National Park and the John...

  • Washakie Wilderness
    Washakie Wilderness
    The Washakie Wilderness is located in Shoshone National Forest in the U.S. state of Wyoming.U.S. Wilderness Areas do not allow motorized or mechanized vehicles, including bicycles. Although camping and fishing are allowed with proper permit, no roads or buildings are constructed and there is also...

  • Winegar Hole Wilderness
    Winegar Hole Wilderness
    The Winegar Hole Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Designated wilderness by Congress in 1984, the wilderness is within Caribou-Targhee National Forest and borders Yellowstone National Park. The wilderness was created to further protect what is considered to be prime Grizzly Bear...


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    • Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
      Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
      Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness was created from existing National Forest lands in 1975 and is located in Montana and Wyoming, United States. The wilderness is partly in Gallatin, Custer and Shoshone National Forests and is composed of . The wilderness encompasses two distinct mountain ranges, namely...

    • Agassiz Wilderness
      Agassiz Wilderness
      Agassiz Wilderness was designated in 1976 by the United States Congress and has a total of 4,000 acres . It is located in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The wilderness is in Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge and is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...

    • Agua Tibia Wilderness
      Agua Tibia Wilderness
      Agua Tibia Wilderness is a protected area in Riverside and San Diego counties, California. It is mostly within the Palomar Ranger District of the Cleveland National Forest....

    • Aldo Leopold Wilderness
      Aldo Leopold Wilderness
      Aldo Leopold Wilderness, along with Gila Wilderness and Blue Range Wilderness, is part of New Mexico's Gila National Forest. It became part of the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1980 by an act of the United States Congress and has a total of...

    • Aleutian Islands Wilderness
      Aleutian Islands Wilderness
      The Aleutian Islands Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Aleutian Islands of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is about in area and was designated by the United States Congress in 1980. It is part of the Aleutian Islands unit of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge.-External links:*** by Marla...

    • Alexander Springs Wilderness
      Alexander Springs Wilderness
      Alexander Springs Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Florida and was designated in 1984 by the United States Congress. The wilderness has a total of 7,941 acres and is within Ocala National Forest, which is the oldest National Forest east of the Mississippi River...

    • Allegheny Islands Wilderness
      Allegheny Islands Wilderness
      The Allegheny River Islands Wilderness is located in the Allegheny National Forest. It comprises seven islands in the Allegheny River, totaling . All are alluvial origin. The islands are located between Buckaloons Recreation Area and Tionesta, Pennsylvania....

  • Alpine Lakes Wilderness
    Alpine Lakes Wilderness
    The Alpine Lakes Wilderness is a large wilderness area spanning the Cascade Range of Washington state in the United States. The wilderness is located in parts of Wenatchee National Forest and Snoqualmie National Forest, and is approximately bounded by Interstate 90 and Snoqualmie Pass to the south...

  • Alta Toquima Wilderness
    Alta Toquima Wilderness
    The Alta Toquima Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Toquima Range of Nye County, in the central section of the state of Nevada in the western United States. It covers an area of ,...

  • Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness
    Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness
    The Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness is located in southwestern Montana, in the northwestern United States. It runs for 40 miles along both sides of the crest of the Anaconda Range, covering almost 250 square miles . To the north are the Sapphire Mountains, and to the south is the Big Hole Valley...

  • Andreafsky Wilderness
    Andreafsky Wilderness
    Andreafsky Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located within the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, it is about in area, and was designated by the United States Congress in 1980.-External links:**...

  • Ansel Adams Wilderness
    Ansel Adams Wilderness
    The Ansel Adams Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada of California, USA. The wilderness is part of the Sierra and Inyo National Forests. The wilderness spans...

  • Apache Creek Wilderness
    Apache Creek Wilderness
    Apache Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area under the jurisdiction of the Chino Valley District of the Prescott National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona. Established in 1984, the Wilderness contains rolling hills of juniper and pinyon pine, outcroppings of granite, three natural springs, and...

  • Apache Kid Wilderness
    Apache Kid Wilderness
    Apache Kid Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Cibola National Forest in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Straddling a southern portion of the San Mateo Mountains of southwestern Socorro County, the area is characterized by rugged, narrow, and steep canyons bisecting high mountain...

  • Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness
    Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness
    Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness is a 19,410 acre wilderness area located in the U.S. State of Arizona. It forms the northwest border of the Galiuro Mountain range. The wilderness is administered by the BLM and is located northeast of Mammoth, Arizona in Graham and Pinal counties, about 120 miles...

  • Arc Dome Wilderness
    Arc Dome Wilderness
    The Arc Dome Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Toiyabe Range of Nye County, in the central section of the state of Nevada in the western United States. It covers an area of approximately , Nevada’s largest Wilderness area...

  • Argus Range Wilderness
  • Arrastra Mountains Wilderness
  • Arrow Canyon Wilderness
    Arrow Canyon Wilderness
    Arrow Canyon Wilderness is a wilderness area located in Clark County in the U.S. state of Nevada. It received wilderness designation with the passage of the Clark County Conservation of Public Land and Natural Resources Act of 2002 and protects the northern portion of the Arrow Canyon Range...

  • Ashdown Gorge Wilderness
    Ashdown Gorge Wilderness
    The Ashdown Gorge Wilderness is located in southwestern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region. The wilderness is within the Dixie National Forest adjacent to Cedar Breaks National Monument and characterized by extremely steep-walled canyons cut through the west rim of the Markagunt...

  • Aubrey Peak Wilderness
    Aubrey Peak Wilderness
    The Aubrey Peak Wilderness is a wilderness administered by the Bureau of Land Management . The wilderness is located in northwest Arizona in the southwest of Mohave County, a region of the southeastern Mojave Desert's extension into northwest Arizona....


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    • Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
      Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
      The Baboquivari Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located in the Baboquivari Mountain Range southwest of Tucson, Arizona. It is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The United States Congress designated the Baboquivari Peak Wilderness in 1990. It...

    • Badger Creek Wilderness
      Badger Creek Wilderness
      The Badger Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located east of Mount Hood in the northwestern Cascades of Oregon, United States. It is one of six designated wilderness areas in the Mount Hood National Forest; the others being Mark O. Hatfield, Salmon-Huckleberry, Mount Hood, Mount Jefferson,...

    • Badlands Wilderness
      Badlands Wilderness
      The Badlands Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Entirely within Badlands National Park, the wilderness was designated by Congress in 1976, and is managed by the National Park Service. Badlands Wilderness, in southeastern Pennington County, includes 64,144 acres of the most...

    • Bald Knob Wilderness
      Bald Knob Wilderness
      The Bald Knob Wilderness is a 5,973-acre parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It is, by acreage, the largest wilderness area located within the U.S. state of Illinois...

    • Bald Mountain Wilderness
      Bald Mountain Wilderness
      The Bald Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in White Pine County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. The Wilderness lies within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and is administered by the U.S...

    • Bald River Gorge Wilderness
      Bald River Gorge Wilderness
      Bald River Gorge Wilderness is a wilderness area of Cherokee National Forest that lies within Monroe County in the U.S. state of Tennessee, designated in 1984. Its elevation is above sea level. It is administered by the United States Forest Service....

    • Bandelier Wilderness
    • Barbours Creek Wilderness
    • Bay Creek Wilderness
      Bay Creek Wilderness
      The Bay Creek Wilderness is a parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It is located within the Shawnee National Forest in Pope County, Illinois...

    • Bear Wallow Wilderness
      Bear Wallow Wilderness
      The Bear Wallow Wilderness is an 11,080 acre wilderness area in eastern Arizona, United States. The wilderness is managed by the U.S. Forest Service.-See also:*Wilderness*Wilderness Act*List of U.S. Wilderness Areas...

    • Beartown Wilderness
    • Beartrap Canyon Wilderness
      Beartrap Canyon Wilderness
      Beartrap Canyon Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to the Kolob Canyons region of Zion National Park, it encompasses and protects part of Beartrap Canyon Creek, a...

    • Beauty Mountain Wilderness
    • Beaver Basin Wilderness
      Beaver Basin Wilderness
      The Beaver Basin Wilderness is a United States Wilderness Area located in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Alger County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It covers an area of . It borders of Lake Superior shoreline. The North Country Trail has of trail in the wilderness area....

    • Beaver Creek Wilderness
      Beaver Creek Wilderness
      Beaver Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was designated wilderness in 1979 and is managed by the Stearns Ranger District of the Daniel Boone National Forest. Located beneath the clifflines of the Beaver Creek Drainage, Beaver Creek Wilderness is...

    • Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
      Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
      The Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness is a wilderness area located in northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region. The jagged mountains and gently sloping alluvial plain of the Beaver Dam Mountains straddle the border between the two states...

    • Becharof Wilderness
      Becharof Wilderness
      Becharof Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located within the Becharof National Wildlife Refuge, it comprises approximately 500,000 acres and is bordered by the Katmai Wilderness on the north. It was designated Wilderness by the United States Congress in 1980.-External...

    • Becky Peak Wilderness
      Becky Peak Wilderness
      Becky Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area in White Pine County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Located north of the town of Mcgill, the Wilderness was created by the White Pine County Conservation, Recreation and Development Act of 2006 and is administered by the U.S...

    • Bell Mountain Wilderness
      Bell Mountain Wilderness
      The United States Congress designated the Bell Mountain Wilderness in 1980. The wilderness area now has a total of . Bell Mountain is located within the Potosi-Fredericktown Ranger District of the Mark Twain National Forest, south of Potosi, Missouri in the United States...

    • Bering Sea Wilderness
      Bering Sea Wilderness
      Bering Sea Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is in area and was designated by the United States Congress in 1970. It encompasses St. Matthew Island, Hall Island, and Pinnacle Island and is part of the larger Bering Sea unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife...

    • Big Branch Wilderness
    • Big Draft Wilderness
    • Big Frog Wilderness
      Big Frog Wilderness
      The Big Frog Wilderness was designated in 1984 and currently consists of . Approximately are located in Georgia in the Chattahoochee National Forest and approximately are located in Tennessee in the Cherokee National Forest...

    • Big Gum Swamp Wilderness
      Big Gum Swamp Wilderness
      The Big Gum Swamp Wilderness is located in the Osceola National Forest, northeast of Lake City, Florida. The refuge was established on September 28, 1984.-External links:* at...

    • Big Horn Mountains Mountains
    • Big Island Lake Wilderness
      Big Island Lake Wilderness
      Big Island Lake Wilderness is a remote protected area in the Munising Ranger District of the Hiawatha National Forest in the Upper Peninsula in the state of Michigan in the United States. The wilderness area is located about one-half mile northwest of the community of Steuben and northwest of...

    • Big Jacks Creek Wilderness
      Big Jacks Creek Wilderness
      The Big Jacks Creek Wilderness is located on the high basalt plateaus of Owyhee County in southwestern Idaho in the western United States. Little Jacks Creek Wilderness is on its northwest border. About miles of Big Jacks Creek is classified as a wild river....

  • Big Lake Wilderness
  • Big Laurel Branch Wilderness
    Big Laurel Branch Wilderness
    Designated by the United States Congress in 1986, the Big Laurel Branch Wilderness is a wilderness area within Carter County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Its elevation is above sea level.-References:...

  • Big Maria Mountains Wilderness
  • Big Rocks Wilderness
  • Big Slough Wilderness
  • Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness
    Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness
    The Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness is in the Mojave Desert in San Bernardino County, California, United States.-Geography:The wilderness lies in the northern end of the Sacramento Mountains, east of the Piute Mountains and west of Needles, California, along Interstate 40 as its northern border....

  • Bighorn Mountain Wilderness
  • Billies Bay Wilderness
    Billies Bay Wilderness
    The Billies Bay Wilderness is part of Ocala National Forest. The wilderness was established on September 28, 1984. The mostly marshy and swampy nature of the area is indicated by the word 'bay' as part of the name, since this is a Floridian term for swamp...

  • Birkhead Mountains Wilderness
    Birkhead Mountains Wilderness
    The Birkhead Mountains Wilderness was established by the 1984 North Carolina Wilderness Act, and it covers in the Uwharrie National Forest at the northern end of the Uwharrie Mountains, in central North Carolina...

  • Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
    Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
    The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is a wilderness area located in San Juan County in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Established in 1984, the Wilderness is a desolate area of steeply eroded badlands managed by the Bureau of Land Management, with the exception of three parcels of private Navajo land...

  • Black Canyon of the Gunnison Wilderness
  • Black Canyon Wilderness (Nevada)
    Black Canyon Wilderness (Nevada)
    The Black Canyon Wilderness in the state of Nevada is a wilderness area located in the Dry Lake Watershed along Dry Lake Valley at Black Canyon, west of the Great Basin Divide....

  • Black Canyon Wilderness (Oregon)
  • Black Creek Wilderness
    Black Creek Wilderness
    Black Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Located within the De Soto National Forest, Mississippi's largest wilderness lies in the broad valley of Black Creek, stained a deep caramel color by the tannic acid of decaying vegetation.-Wild and Scenic River:Black...

  • Black Elk Wilderness
    Black Elk Wilderness
    The Black Elk Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of South Dakota. The wilderness was designated by an act of Congress in 1980. Managed by the U.S. Forest Service, Black Elk Wilderness is part of Black Hills National Forest. This 13,426 acre region is considered sacred to Native Americans,...

  • Black Fork Mountain Wilderness
    Black Fork Mountain Wilderness
    Black Fork Mountain Wilderness is located in the U.S. states of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Created by an act of Congress in 1984, the wilderness covers an area of 13,139 acres . Contained within Ouachita National Forest, the wilderness is managed by the U.S...

  • Black Mountain Wilderness
  • Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness
    Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness
    The Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness is located in western Colorado and eastern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region approximately west of Grand Junction, Colorado. The wilderness lies on the northwest flank of the Uncompahgre Plateau...

  • Black Rock Desert Wilderness
    Black Rock Desert Wilderness
    The Black Rock Desert Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located in the east arm of the Black Rock Desert playa east of the Black Rock Range and west of the Jackson Mountains....

  • Blackbeard Island Wilderness
  • Blackjack Springs Wilderness
    Blackjack Springs Wilderness
    The Blackjack Springs Wilderness is a wilderness area northeast of Eagle River, Wisconsin. It is located within the Nicolet unit of the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest and is administered by the US Forest Service. The area protects four large, crystal-clear springs at the headwaters of...

  • Blackridge Wilderness
    Blackridge Wilderness
    Blackridge Wilderness is a wilderness area in the state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to the Kolob Canyons section of Zion National Park, it protects a Black Ridge, formed by the Hurricane Fault, as well as a...

  • Blood Mountain Wilderness
    Blood Mountain Wilderness
    The Blood Mountain Wilderness was designated in 1991 and currently consists of . The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in Lumpkin County and Union County, Georgia. The Wilderness is managed by the United States Forest Service and is part of the National...

  • Blue Range Wilderness
    Blue Range Wilderness
    Blue Range Wilderness, along with Aldo Leopold Wilderness and Gila Wilderness, is part of Gila National Forest. It is located on the western border of New Mexico where it adjoins the Blue Range Primitive Area of Arizona and west of U.S. Route 180 between Reserve and Glenwood. The wilderness is...

  • Bob Marshall Wilderness
    Bob Marshall Wilderness
    The Bob Marshall Wilderness is a wilderness area in Flathead National Forest of western Montana in the United States. It is named after Bob Marshall , an early forester, conservationist, and co-founder of The Wilderness Society. The Bob Marshall Wilderness extends for 60 miles along the...

  • Bogoslof Wilderness
    Bogoslof Wilderness
    Bogoslof Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located within the Aleutian Islands unit of Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, it is in area and was designated by the United States Congress in 1970. It encompasses the entirety of Bogoslof Island and nearby Fire...

  • Bosque del Apache Wilderness
  • Boulder Creek Wilderness
    Boulder Creek Wilderness
    The Boulder Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Umpqua National Forest in the southern Cascade Range of Oregon, United States. It was designated by the United States Congress in 1984 and comprises ....

  • Boulder River Wilderness
    Boulder River Wilderness
    Boulder River Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in the western Cascade Range of Washington state.-Topography:...

  • Boundary Peak Wilderness
    Boundary Peak Wilderness
    The Boundary Peak Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the White Mountains of Esmeralda County, in the western section of the state of Nevada in the western United States....

  • Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
    Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
    The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness , is a wilderness area within the Superior National Forest in northeastern Minnesota under the administration of the U.S. Forest Service...

  • Box-Death Hollow Wilderness
    Box-Death Hollow Wilderness
    Box-Death Hollow Wilderness is a wilderness area located in south-central Utah, USA, on the Dixie National Forest. Vertical gray-orange walls of Navajo sandstone stand above two canyon tributaries of the Escalante River in Box-Death Hollow...

  • Bradwell Bay Wilderness
    Bradwell Bay Wilderness
    The Bradwell Bay Wilderness is part of the United States National Wilderness Preservation System, located in the Panhandle. The 24,602 acre  wilderness was established in 1975. "Bay" in this case means "a recess of land, partly surrounded by hills," which, in this particular instance, is...

  • Brasstown Wilderness
    Brasstown Wilderness
    The Brasstown Wilderness was designated in 1986 and currently consists of . The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in Union County and Towns County, Georgia...

  • Breadloaf Wilderness
  • Breton Wilderness
  • Bridge Canyon Wilderness
  • Bridge Creek Wilderness
    Bridge Creek Wilderness
    Bridge Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Ochoco Mountains of central Oregon, within the Ochoco National Forest. It was established in 1984 and comprises , making it one of the smallest Wilderness areas in the state.-Topography:...

  • Bridger Wilderness
    Bridger Wilderness
    The Bridger Wilderness is located in Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming, United States. Originally established in 1931 as a primitive area, the 428,169 acre region was redesignated as a wilderness in 1964 and expanded to the current size in 1984...

  • Brigantine Wilderness
  • Bright Star Wilderness
    Bright Star Wilderness
    Bright Star Wilderness is a wilderness area in Kern County in the U.S. state of California.The California Desert Protection Act of 1994 added the wilderness to the National Wilderness Preservation System and it is administered by the Bureau of Land Management .Bright Star Wilderness surrounds ...

  • Bristlecone Wilderness
    Bristlecone Wilderness
    Bristlecone Wilderness is a wilderness area in White Pine County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Located in the Egan Range approximately five miles west of the town of Mcgill, the Wilderness was created by the "White Pine County Conservation, Recreation and Development Act of 2006" and is...

  • Bristol Cliffs Wilderness
  • Bristol Mountains Wilderness
  • Bruneau – Jarbidge Rivers Wilderness
    Bruneau – Jarbidge Rivers Wilderness
    The Bruneau – Jarbidge Rivers Wilderness is located on the high basalt plateaus of Owyhee County in southwestern Idaho in the western United States. The wilderness area is named after and protects much of the Bruneau and Jarbidge Rivers and their canyons. Whitewater rafting is a popular...

  • Brush Mountain Wilderness
  • Brush Mountain East Wilderness
  • Buckhorn Wilderness
    Buckhorn Wilderness
    The Buckhorn Wilderness is a mountainous wilderness area on the northeastern Olympic Peninsula in Washington, USA. Named after Buckhorn Mountain , the wilderness abuts the eastern boundary of Olympic National Park which includes nearby Mount Constance , Inner Constance , Warrior Peak , and Mount...

  • Bucks Lake Wilderness
    Bucks Lake Wilderness
    The Bucks Lake Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Plumas National Forest section of the Sierra Nevada, in northeastern California, United States.-Geography:...

  • Buffalo National River Wilderness
  • Buffalo Peaks Wilderness
    Buffalo Peaks Wilderness
    The Buffalo Peaks Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in San Isabel National Forest and Pike National Forest in central Colorado. The wilderness named after two highly eroded volcanic mountains was established in 1993....

  • Bull of the Woods Wilderness
    Bull of the Woods Wilderness
    The Bull of the Woods Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Mount Hood National Forest in the northwestern Cascades of Oregon, United States. It was created in 1984 and consists of including prime low-elevation old growth forest, about a dozen lakes of at least and many large creeks and...

  • Burden Falls Wilderness
    Burden Falls Wilderness
    The Burden Falls Wilderness is a 3,775-acre unit of the Shawnee National Forest. It is located in northwestern Pope County and southwestern Saline County, Illinois. The wilderness is characterized by roadless second-growth hardwood forest, punctuated by a small, seasonal waterfall on Burden Creek...

  • Byers Peak Wilderness
    Byers Peak Wilderness
    The Byers Peak Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in Arapaho National Forest in north central Colorado. The wilderness named after its highest peak was established in 1993.-External links:* at Sangres.com...


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    • Cabeza Prieta Wilderness
      Cabeza Prieta Wilderness
      The Cabeza Prieta Wilderness is located in the Sonoran Desert in southwestern Arizona in the United States. Cabeza Prieta Wilderness Area has the distinction of being Arizona's largest Wilderness Area, encompassing nearly 93 percent of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge and covering —larger...

    • Cabinet Mountains Wilderness
      Cabinet Mountains Wilderness
      The Cabinet Mountains Wilderness,created by an act of Congress in 1964,is located in the U.S. state of Montana. Protecting the wildest portions of the Cabinet Mountains and an integral part of Kootenai National Forest and Kaniksu National Forest, the wilderness had enjoyed more limited protection...

    • Cache Creek Wilderness
      Cache Creek Wilderness
      The Cache Creek Wilderness is a 27,245 acre wilderness area located in Lake County, California. The wilderness was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System when the United States Congress passed the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act in 2006...

    • Cache La Poudre Wilderness
      Cache La Poudre Wilderness
      The Cache la Poudre Wilderness is administered by the USDA Forest Service. It is located on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District on the Roosevelt National Forest in Colorado. This wilderness is 9,258 acres  in size and is characterized by steep, rugged terrain along the Cache la Poudre River...

    • Cadiz Dunes Wilderness
    • Cahuilla Mountain Wilderness
    • Calico Mountains Wilderness
      Calico Mountains Wilderness
      Calico Mountains Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located in the Calico Mountains.Rockhounding, hunting, and dayhiking are in the wilderness. Photography of geologic formations and spring wildflowers is a pastime of local visitors...

    • Canaan Mountain Wilderness
      Canaan Mountain Wilderness
      Canaan Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009...

    • Caney Creek Wilderness
    • Cape Romain Wilderness
    • Capitan Mountains Wilderness
    • Caribou Wilderness
      Caribou Wilderness
      The Caribou Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area created by the Wilderness Act of 1964 and is part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. It is located east of Redding in the state of California, USA. The Caribou Wilderness comprises and is adjacent to the east side of...

    • Caribou-Speckled Mountain Wilderness
    • Carlsbad Caverns Wilderness
    • Carrizo Gorge Wilderness
    • Carson-Iceberg Wilderness
      Carson-Iceberg Wilderness
      The Carson-Iceberg Wilderness is a federal wilderness area located northeast of Stockton, California. It encompasses and was designated by the California Wilderness Act of 1984. It protects an area of High Sierra landscape with elevations from to along the Sierra Mountains from Ebbetts Pass...

    • Castle Crags Wilderness
      Castle Crags Wilderness
      The Castle Crags Wilderness is a wilderness area located 40 miles north of Redding, California within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. The US Congress passsd the California Wilderness Act in 1984 which set aside the wilderness...

    • Castle Creek Wilderness
    • Catfish Lake South Wilderness
    • Cebolla Wilderness
    • Cedar Branch Wilderness
    • Cedar Keys Wilderness
    • Cedar Mountain Wilderness
      Cedar Mountain Wilderness
      The Cedar Mountain Wilderness is located in northwestern Utah, USA, just south of Interstate 80. The vegetation on the upper elevations of the Cedar Mountains is dominated by junipers . The foothill and valley regions include mixed desert shrubs. Cheatgrass is prevalent over large areas burned by...

  • Cedar Roughs Wilderness
  • Chama River Canyon Wilderness
    Chama River Canyon Wilderness
    Congress created the Chama River Canyon Wilderness in New Mexico in February 1978.  The wilderness area covers approximately on the Coyote Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest and the Carson National Forest....

  • Chamisso Wilderness
    Chamisso Wilderness
    Chamisso Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was designated by the United States Congress in 1975.A small subunit of the Chukchi Sea Unit of the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge, Chamisso Island and nearby Puffin Island were combined as a wildlife refuge in...

  • Chanchelulla Wilderness
  • Charles C. Deam Wilderness
  • Chase Lake Wilderness
    Chase Lake Wilderness
    The Chase Lake Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of North Dakota and at , it covers the majority of the land area of Chase Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Managed by the U.S...

  • Chassahowitzka Wilderness
  • Cheaha Wilderness
    Cheaha Wilderness
    The Cheaha Wilderness lies next to Cheaha State Park, near the Talladega Mountains in Alabama, United States. Congress designated it in 1983 and expanded it in 1988....

  • Chemehuevi Mountains Wilderness
  • Chimney Peak Wilderness
    Chimney Peak Wilderness
    The Chimney Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area located northwest of Ridgecrest, in southeastern Tulare County, California. The 1994 California Desert Protection Act created the wilderness and it is managed by the Bureau of Land Management , Department of the Interior.The Chimney Peak...

  • Chiricahua National Monument Wilderness
  • Chiricahua Wilderness
  • Chuck River Wilderness
    Chuck River Wilderness
    Chuck River Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Tongass National Forest in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was designated by the United States Congress in 1990....

  • Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness
  • Chumash Wilderness
    Chumash Wilderness
    The Chumash Wilderness is a wilderness area in the mountains of northern Ventura County and southwestern Kern County in California, USA. It is completely within the Los Padres National Forest, and includes most of the highest terrain in Ventura County...

  • Citico Creek Wilderness
    Citico Creek Wilderness
    Citico Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Cherokee National Forest in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The wilderness contains the entire upper drainage of Citico Creek, which consists of the north and south forks and at least eight tributaries...

  • Clackamas Wilderness
    Clackamas Wilderness
    The Clackamas Wilderness is made up of five different tracts of lands with no roads, scattered both left and right of the Clackamas River, approximately 50 miles down. These areas include Big Bottom, Memaloose Lake, Clackamas Canyon, Sisi Butte and South Fork Clackamas. The Clackamas Wilderness...

  • Clear Springs Wilderness
    Clear Springs Wilderness
    The Clear Springs Wilderness is a 4,730-acre parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It contains the LaRue-Pine Hills Ecological Area, a National Natural Landmark noted for a large and diverse population of snakes....

  • Clearwater Wilderness
    Clearwater Wilderness
    Clearwater Wilderness, a small wilderness created by Congress in the 1984 under the 1964 Wilderness Act establishing the National Wilderness Preservation System. It is located in northeast Pierce County, southeast of Tacoma in the South Cascade Range in Washington, US...

  • Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness
    Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness
    The Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness ia a wilderness area located northeast of Twentynine Palms, California.Named for the dry lakes found at the center of the wilderness, this area has a variety of natural resources. The east portion is mountainous while the west portion is a vast alluvial slope or bajada...

  • Clifty Wilderness
    Clifty Wilderness
    Clifty Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the U.S. state of Kentucky. It was designated wilderness in 1985 and is managed by the Cumberland Ranger District of the Daniel Boone National Forest....

  • Clipper Mountain Wilderness
    Clipper Mountain Wilderness
    The Clipper Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Clipper Mountains within the eastern Mojave Desert, in northeastern San Bernardino County, California...

  • Cloud Peak Wilderness
    Cloud Peak Wilderness
    The Cloud Peak Wilderness is located in north central Wyoming in the United States. Entirely within Bighorn National Forest, the wilderness was established in 1984 in an effort to preserve the wildest section of the Bighorn Mountains...

  • Clover Mountains Wilderness
    Clover Mountains Wilderness
    Clover Mountains Wilderness is a large wilderness area southeast of Caliente, Nevada in southeast Lincoln County's border region with southwest Utah....

  • Cohutta Wilderness
    Cohutta Wilderness
    The Cohutta Wilderness was designated in 1975, expanded in 1986, and currently consists of . Approximately are located in Georgia in the Chattahoochee National Forest and approximately are located in Tennessee in the Cherokee National Forest...

  • Collegiate Peaks Wilderness
    Collegiate Peaks Wilderness
    The Collegiate Peaks Wilderness is a area located in central Colorado between Leadville and Buena Vista to the east and Aspen to the west and Crested Butte to the southwest. Most of the area is in the San Isabel and Gunnison National Forests, with a smaller area in the White River National Forest...

  • Colonel Bob Wilderness
    Colonel Bob Wilderness
    Colonel Bob Wilderness is a 48 km2 protected area located in the southwest corner of Olympic National Forest in Washington State. It is named after 19th century orator Robert Green Ingersoll. Lake Quinault lies about 15 miles to the west. Elevations in the wilderness vary from 300 to 4,509...

  • Comanche Peak Wilderness
    Comanche Peak Wilderness
    The Comanche Peak Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the Roosevelt National Forest on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District in Colorado along the northern boundary of Rocky Mountain National Park. The wilderness named for its most prominent peak was established in 1980. There are of...

  • Congaree National Park Wilderness
  • Copper Salmon Wilderness
    Copper Salmon Wilderness
    The Copper Salmon Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Southern Oregon Coast Range and is part of the Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest...

  • Coronation Island Wilderness
    Coronation Island Wilderness
    Coronation Island Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was designated by the United States Congress in 1980. The wilderness area encompasses the entirety of Coronation Island plus the Spanish Islands. It is part of Tongass National Forest, which is managed by the United...

  • Coso Range Wilderness
  • Cottonwood Canyon Wilderness
    Cottonwood Canyon Wilderness
    Cottonwood Canyon Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to the southern edge of the Dixie National Forest, it encompasses and protects a transition zone between the...

  • Cottonwood Forest Wilderness
    Cottonwood Forest Wilderness
    Cottonwood Forest Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located within the Dixie National Forest, it is adjacent to a desert tortoise reserve and the Cottonwood Canyon Wilderness....

  • Cottonwood Point Wilderness
  • Cougar Canyon Wilderness
    Cougar Canyon Wilderness
    Cougar Canyon Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009...

  • Coyote Mountains Wilderness (Arizona)
    Coyote Mountains Wilderness (Arizona)
    The Coyote Mountains Wilderness of Arizona is part of the Coyote Mountains of southern Arizona in the center of Pima County. The wilderness lies about 40 mi southwest of Tucson, in the northwest of the Altar Valley. Kitt Peak is 4 mi WSW....

  • Coyote Mountains Wilderness (California)
  • Crab Orchard Wilderness
    Crab Orchard Wilderness
    The Crab Orchard Wilderness is a parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It is located within the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge in Williamson County, Illinois.-Second-growth wilderness:...

  • Cranberry Wilderness
    Cranberry Wilderness
    The Cranberry Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness area in the Monongahela National Forest of southeast West Virginia, USA. Its name derives from the nearby Cranberry Glades as well as from the Cranberry River and Cranberry Mountain...

  • Craters of the Moon National Wilderness Area
  • Cruces Basin Wilderness
  • Cucamonga Wilderness
    Cucamonga Wilderness
    The Cucamonga Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California. The wilderness is managed by the United States Forest Service in Angeles and San Bernardino National Forests. Elevations range from about ....

  • Cumberland Island Wilderness
  • Cummins Creek Wilderness
    Cummins Creek Wilderness
    The Cummins Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Siuslaw National Forest on the Oregon coast. It is one of three wilderness areas created in the Siuslaw in 1984, along with Drift Creek and Rock Creek...

  • Currant Mountain Wilderness
    Currant Mountain Wilderness
    The Currant Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the White Pine Range of Nye County and White Pine County, in the eastern section of the state of Nevada in the western United States....


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    • Dark Canyon Wilderness
      Dark Canyon Wilderness
      Dark Canyon Wilderness, in the heart of southeast Utah's canyon country, is named for its high steep walls that narrow in the lower section so that they block the light in the morning and late afternoon...

    • Darwin Falls Wilderness
      Darwin Falls Wilderness
      The Darwin Falls Wilderness is a wilderness area in the northern Mojave Desert, and part of the National Wilderness Preservation System established by the California Desert Protection Act and managed by the Bureau of Land Management...

    • Dead Mountains Wilderness
    • Death Valley Wilderness
    • Deep Creek Wilderness
      Deep Creek Wilderness
      Deep Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. Together with the Deep Creek North Wilderness it protects . It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to northeastern corner of Zion National Park, it...

    • Deep Creek North Wilderness
      Deep Creek North Wilderness
      Deep Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Together with the Deep Creek Wilderness to the south it encompasses and protects much of Deep Creek, a tributary of the Wild & Scenic...

    • Delamar Mountains Wilderness
    • Delirium Wilderness
      Delirium Wilderness
      Delirium Wilderness is a wilderness area in Chippewa County, within the Hiawatha National Forest in the U.S. state of Michigan.The Wilderness is forested, flat, and rolling, often characterized as a swamp, with elevations ranging from 590 to 890 feet...

  • Denali Wilderness
  • Deseret Peak Wilderness
    Deseret Peak Wilderness
    The Deseret Peak Wilderness is located in the Stansbury Mountains of Tooele County, Utah, near the towns of Tooele and Grantsville, not far from the Great Salt Lake. It is part of both the Uinta and the Wasatch-Cache National Forests. This semi-arid wilderness is part of the Great Basin ecosystem...

  • Desolation Wilderness
    Desolation Wilderness
    The Desolation Wilderness is a federally protected wilderness area located along the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, just southwest of Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County, California, United States. It is a popular backpacking destination, with much barren rocky terrain at the edge of the...

  • Devils Backbone Wilderness
    Devils Backbone Wilderness
    The Devils Backbone Wilderness is one of eight wilderness areas protected and preserved in the U.S. State of Missouri. The United States Congress designated the wilderness area in 1980, and it now has a total of 6,595 acres...

  • Diamond Peak Wilderness
    Diamond Peak Wilderness
    The Diamond Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area straddling the Cascade crest and includes the Diamond Peak Volcano. It is located within two National Forests - the Willamette National Forest on the west and the Deschutes National Forest on the east....

  • Dick Smith Wilderness
    Dick Smith Wilderness
    The Dick Smith Wilderness is a wilderness area in the mountains of eastern Santa Barbara County, California, USA, with a portion in Ventura County. It is completely contained within the Los Padres National Forest, and is northeast of the city of Santa Barbara and north of the city of Ojai...

  • Dinkey Lakes Wilderness
    Dinkey Lakes Wilderness
    The Dinkey Lakes Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located northeast of Fresno, in the state of California, USA. It comprises within the Sierra National Forest and was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System by the California Wilderness Act of 1984.Elevations...

  • Doc's Pass Wilderness
    Doc's Pass Wilderness
    Doc's Pass Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to Nevada in the northwestern corner of Washington County, it protects a portion of the Bull Valley Mountains and the...

  • Dolly Sods Wilderness
    Dolly Sods Wilderness
    The Dolly Sods Wilderness — originally simply Dolly Sods — is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA, and is part of the Monongahela National Forest of the U.S. Forest Service ....

  • Dome Wilderness
    Dome Wilderness
    Congress created the Dome Wilderness in New Mexico in 1980. The wilderness area is around on the Jemez Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest. The wilderness area borders the Bandelier Wilderness in Bandelier National Monument....

  • Domeland Wilderness
  • Dominguez Canyon Wilderness
    Dominguez Canyon Wilderness
    The Dominguez Canyon Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located southeast of Grand Junction in western Colorado. The wilderness area established in 2009, the largest BLM roadless area in the state of Colorado, includes two major canyon systems that drain the northeastern corner of the...

  • Dos Cabezas Mountains Wilderness
  • Drift Creek Wilderness
    Drift Creek Wilderness
    Drift Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Siuslaw National Forest on the Oregon Coast. It was created in 1984, along with two other small wilderness areas in the Forest - Cummins Creek Wilderness and Rock Creek Wilderness. The elevation of Drift Creek ranges from , and is characterized...

  • Dry Creek Wilderness
  • Dugger Mountain Wilderness
    Dugger Mountain Wilderness
    Dugger Mountain Wilderness is Alabama's third and newest wilderness area. Dedicated April 2000, Dugger Mountain Wilderness covers of Talladega National Forest in Calhoun County and Cleburne County in Alabama.-Geography:...


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    • Eagle Cap Wilderness
      Eagle Cap Wilderness
      Eagle Cap Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Wallowa Mountains of northeastern Oregon , within the Wallowa–Whitman National Forest. The Wilderness was established in 1940. In 1964, it was included in the National Wilderness Preservation System...

    • Eagles Nest Wilderness
      Eagles Nest Wilderness
      The Eagles Nest Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the Gore Range near Vail, Copper Mountain, Frisco, Silverthorne, and Heeney, in Summit and Eagle Counties Colorado. Eagles Nest Wilderness falls within the jurisdiction of Dillon Ranger District and Holy Cross Ranger District, White...

    • Eagletail Mountains Wilderness
      Eagletail Mountains Wilderness
      The Eagletail Mountains Wilderness is part of the Eagletail Mountains of central-west Arizona, about 65 mi west of Phoenix. The wilderness is of moderate size, with the Eagletail Mountains forming its northeast perimeter, and the much shorter Cemetery Ridge section, forming its southwest border...

    • East Cactus Plain Wilderness
      East Cactus Plain Wilderness
      The East Cactus Plain Wilderness is a wilderness area on the Cactus Plain north of Bouse, Arizona. It is one of twenty-five wilderness areas located in the Lower Colorado River Valley region, south of Lake Mead-Hoover Dam...

    • East Fork High Rock Canyon Wilderness
      East Fork High Rock Canyon Wilderness
      The East Fork High Rock Canyon Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located on the northeast side of High Rock Canyon but does not include the 4x4 trail inside High Rock Canyon nor a 4x4 trail to the Yellow Hills.- External links :*...

  • East Fork Wilderness
  • East Humboldt Wilderness
    East Humboldt Wilderness
    The East Humboldt Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the East Humboldt Range of Elko County, in the northeast section of the state of Nevada in the western United States....

  • El Paso Mountains Wilderness
    El Paso Mountains Wilderness
    The El Paso Mountains Wilderness was created in 1994 and now has a total of . All of the wilderness is in the northern Mojave Desert in eastern Kern County, California and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management...

  • El Toro Wilderness
    El Toro Wilderness
    El Toro Wilderness is a National Wilderness Preservation System located partly within El Yunque National Forest on the island of Puerto Rico...

  • Eldorado Wilderness
  • Ellicott Rock Wilderness
    Ellicott Rock Wilderness
    The Ellicott Rock Wilderness was designated in 1975 and currently consists of surrounding the point at which Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina come together. It is the only wilderness that straddles three states...

  • Emigrant Wilderness
    Emigrant Wilderness
    The Emigrant Wilderness of Stanislaus National Forest is a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, USA. It is bordered by Yosemite National Park on the south, the Toiyabe National Forest on the east, and State Route 108 on the north. It is an elongated area that extends...

  • Encampment River Wilderness
    Encampment River Wilderness
    The Encampment River Wilderness is a designated wilderness area located in south central Wyoming in the United States. Entirely within Medicine Bow National Forest, the wilderness was designated to increase protection of the Encampment River and the canyon through which it flows.U.S. Wilderness...

  • Endicott River Wilderness
    Endicott River Wilderness
    Endicott River Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Designated by the United States Congress in 1980, it is located within the Tongass National Forest and is bordered by Glacier Bay Wilderness within Glacier Bay National Park on the west.-External links:* - Tongass...

  • Escudilla Wilderness

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    • Far South Egans Wilderness
    • Farallon Wilderness
    • Fire Island Wilderness
      Otis Pike Fire Island High Dune Wilderness
      The Otis Pike High Dune Wilderness Area, also known as the Otis G. Pike Wilderness Area, is a federally protected wilderness area composed of barrier islands off the south shore of Long Island, New York....

    • Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness
      Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness
      The Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness is located about 25 miles west of Brawley, California, and southeast of the Vallecito Mountains in the United States...

    • Fishhooks Wilderness
      Fishhooks Wilderness
      Fishhooks Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is administered by the Bureau of Land Management and is located about northwest of Safford, Arizona. It borders the San Carlos Indian Reservation.-Access:...

    • Fitzpatrick Wilderness
      Fitzpatrick Wilderness
      The Fitzpatrick Wilderness is located in Shoshone National Forest in the U.S. state of Wyoming. The wilderness was originally known as the Glacier Primitive Area, but was redesignated a wilderness in 1976....

  • Flat Tops Wilderness
  • Flatside Wilderness
  • Florida Keys Wilderness
  • Forrester Island Wilderness
    Forrester Island Wilderness
    Forrester Island Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska at Forrester Island . It was designated by the United States Congress in 1970...

  • Fort Niobrara Wilderness
    Fort Niobrara Wilderness
    The Fort Niobrara Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Nebraska, near Valentine. Created by an act of Congress in 1976, the wilderness is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and covers an area of 4,635 acres within Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge...

  • Fortification Range Wilderness
    Fortification Range Wilderness
    Fortification Range Wilderness is a wilderness area in Lincoln County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. The Wilderness lies approximately southeast of the town of Ely and is administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management....

  • Fossil Ridge Wilderness
    Fossil Ridge Wilderness
    The Fossil Ridge Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located approximately 16 miles north of Gunnison, Colorado in the Gunnison National Forest.-External links:*...

  • Fossil Springs Wilderness
    Fossil Springs Wilderness
    Fossil Springs Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Coconino National Forest in Arizona, USA. It is located at the bottom of a steep canyon at the edge of the Colorado Plateau, just south of the Mogollon Rim. Here, water is pumped to the surface at the rate of about 20,000 gallons per minute...

  • Four Peaks Wilderness
  • Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness
    Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness
    The Frank Church—River of No Return Wilderness Area is a protected wilderness area in Idaho. It was created in 1980 by the United States Congress as the River of No Return Wilderness Area, and renamed in 1984 as the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area in honor of U.S...

  • Funeral Mountains Wilderness

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    • Galiuro Wilderness
      Galiuro Wilderness
      Galiuro Wilderness is a wilderness area encompassing the mid to upper slopes of the Galiuro Mountains. It is located within the Safford Ranger District of the Coronado National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is bordered on the south by the Redfield Canyon...

    • Garcia Wilderness
      Garcia Wilderness
      The Garcia Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Los Padres National Forest in Central California, San Luis Obispo County. It is one of several areas set aside by the United States Congress in 1992 with passage of the Los Padres Condor Range and River Protection Act...

    • Garden Mountain Wilderness
    • Garden of the Gods Wilderness
      Garden of the Gods Wilderness
      The Garden of the Gods Wilderness is a parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It is located within the Shawnee National Forest in Hardin County, Pope County, Saline County, and Gallatin County in the U.S. state of Illinois...

    • Gates of the Arctic Wilderness
      Gates of the Arctic Wilderness
      Gates of the Arctic Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. Located in the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, it is in area, the third-largest designated wilderness area in the United States .-History and Introduction:When the wilderness activist, Bob...

    • Gates of the Mountains Wilderness
      Gates of the Mountains Wilderness
      The Gates of the Mountains Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Montana. Created by an act of Congress in 1964, the wilderness is managed by Helena National Forest...

    • Gaylord A. Nelson National Wilderness
    • Gearhart Mountain Wilderness
      Gearhart Mountain Wilderness
      Gearhart Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Fremont National Forest in Lake County and Klamath County, south-central Oregon. This area was established in 1943 as a Wild Area and designated as Wilderness with the Wilderness Act of 1964. In 1984, an additional were added...

    • Gee Creek Wilderness
      Gee Creek Wilderness
      Designated in 1975, the Gee Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area within Polk County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. Its elevation is above sea level. Gee Creek Wilderness is the smallest wilderness in the Cherokee National Forest.-References:...

    • George D. Aiken Wilderness
    • Gibraltar Mountain Wilderness
    • Gila Wilderness
      Gila Wilderness
      Gila Wilderness was designated the world's first wilderness area on June 3, 1924. Along with Aldo Leopold Wilderness and Blue Range Wilderness, the wilderness is part of New Mexico's Gila National Forest. The wilderness is approximately from north to south and east to west...

    • Glacier Bay Wilderness
      Glacier Bay Wilderness
      Glacier Bay Wilderness is a wilderness area in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It consists of the park section of 3.28-million-acre Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve...

  • Glacier Peak Wilderness
    Glacier Peak Wilderness
    The Glacier Peak Wilderness, created by the US Forest Service in 1960 by efforts of the , four years before the 1964 wilderness legislation of the Congress, is located within portions of Chelan County, Snohomish County, and Skagit Counties in the North Cascades of Washington...

  • Glacier View Wilderness
    Glacier View Wilderness
    Glacier View Wilderness is a 3,123 acre Wilderness adjacent to Mount Rainier National Park on the west side in Washington State. It was designated as wilderness in 1984.- Access :...

  • Glastenbury Wilderness
    Glastenbury Wilderness
    The Glatenbury Wilderness is located in Green Mountain National Forest in the U.S. state of Vermont. The wilderness is traversed by the Appalachian Trail, coinciding with the Long Trail, and contains several other hiking routes as well. Glastenbury Mountain is at the north end of the wilderness,...

  • Goat Rocks Wilderness
    Goat Rocks Wilderness
    Goat Rocks Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in Washington, United States. Consisting of portions of Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and Gifford Pinchot National Forest on the crest of the Cascade Range south of U.S...

  • Golden Trout Wilderness
    Golden Trout Wilderness
    The Golden Trout Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada, in Tulare County, California. It is located east of Visalia, California within Inyo National Forest and Sequoia National Forest....

  • Golden Valley Wilderness
  • Goose Creek Wilderness
    Goose Creek Wilderness
    Goose Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to the northern boundary of Zion National Park, it protects a portion of the upper reaches of Goose Creek, a...

  • Goshute Canyon Wilderness
    Goshute Canyon Wilderness
    Goshute Canyon Wilderness is a wilderness area in northern White Pine County and southern Elko County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Located in the Cherry Creek Range north of the town of Mcgill, the Wilderness was created by the "White Pine County Conservation, Recreation and Development Act of...

  • Gospel Hump Wilderness
    Gospel Hump Wilderness
    The Gospel Hump Wilderness is a wilderness area located east of Riggins in the state of Idaho. It received wilderness designation in 1978 through the passage of the Endangered American Wilderness Act and is managed by the Nez Perce National Forest....

  • Government Peak Wilderness
    Government Peak Wilderness
    Government Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area in the northern part of the Snake Range of White Pine County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Located approximately north of the town of Baker, the Wilderness was designated in 2006 and is administered by the U.S...

  • Grand Wash Cliffs Wilderness
  • Granite Chief Wilderness
  • Granite Mountain Wilderness (Arizona)
  • Granite Mountain Wilderness (California)
  • Grant Range Wilderness
    Grant Range Wilderness
    The Grant Range Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Grant Range of Nye County, in the central section of the state of Nevada in the western United States....

  • Grass Valley Wilderness
  • Grassy Knob Wilderness
    Grassy Knob Wilderness
    Grassy Knob Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Klamath Mountains of southwestern Oregon, within the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. It was designated wilderness by the United States Congress in 1984 and now comprises a total of...

  • Great Bear Wilderness
    Great Bear Wilderness
    The Great Bear Wilderness is located in northern Montana, United States, within Flathead National Forest Created by an act of Congress in 1978, the wilderness comprises 286,700 acres and borders the Bob Marshall Wilderness on the north...

  • Great Gulf Wilderness
  • Great Sand Dunes Wilderness
  • Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness
  • Greenhorn Mountain Wilderness
    Greenhorn Mountain Wilderness
    The Greenhorn Mountain Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located northwest of Walsenburg, Colorado in the San Isabel and Pike National forests. The wilderness area includes the summit of Greenhorn Mountain, the highest point in the Wet Mountains of Colorado....

  • Gros Ventre Wilderness
    Gros Ventre Wilderness
    The Gros Ventre Wilderness is located in Bridger-Teton National Forest in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Most of the Gros Ventre Range is located within the wilderness.U.S. Wilderness Areas do not allow motorized or mechanized vehicles, including bicycles...

  • Guadalupe Mountains Wilderness
  • Gulf Islands Wilderness
  • Gunnison Gorge Wilderness
    Gunnison Gorge Wilderness
    The Gunnison Gorge Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located immediately northwest of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. The wilderness area established in 1999 includes of the Gunnison River inside the Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area....


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    • Haleakala Wilderness
      Haleakala Wilderness
      Haleakala Wilderness is a designated wilderness area within Haleakala National Park on the island of Maui in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It was designated on October 20, 1976, with , and was expanded to in 2005...

    • Harcurvar Mountains Wilderness
    • Harquahala Mountains Wilderness
    • Hassayampa River Canyon Wilderness
      Hassayampa River Canyon Wilderness
      Hassayampa River Canyon Wilderness is a 11,840 acre wilderness area located in the U.S. state of Arizona. It lies north east of Wickenburg. The wilderness area was created in 1990 and is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The Yavapai word for the Hassayampa River is Hasyambo, meaning...

    • Hauser Wilderness
    • Havasu Wilderness
      Havasu Wilderness
      Havasu Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Havasu National Wildlife Refuge near Lake Havasu in the U.S. states of Arizona and California. are located in Arizona and are located in California....

    • Hawaii Volcanoes Wilderness
      Hawaii Volcanoes Wilderness
      Hawaii Volcanoes Wilderness is a designated wilderness area within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawaii in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It was designated in 1978 with , and was later expanded to . Wilderness designation covers the northwestern extension of the National Park,...

    • Hazy Islands Wilderness
      Hazy Islands Wilderness
      Hazy Islands Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was first established as a National Wildlife Refuge in 1912, and officially designated as Wilderness in 1970 by the United States Congress. The islands are part of the Gulf of Alaska unit of the Alaska Maritime National...

    • Headwaters Wilderness
    • Hell Hole Bay Wilderness
    • Hells Canyon Wilderness (Arizona)
      Hells Canyon Wilderness (Arizona)
      Hells Canyon Wilderness is a 9900 acre wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located approximately northwest of Phoenix in Maricopa and southeast Yavapai counties.-Topography:...

  • Hells Canyon Wilderness (Oregon and Idaho)
  • Hellsgate Wilderness
  • Henry M. Jackson Wilderness
    Henry M. Jackson Wilderness
    The Henry M. Jackson Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the state of Washington, United States.-History:The Henry M. Jackson Wilderness was created by the 1984 Washington Wilderness Act and named after former US Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington...

  • Hercules-Glades Wilderness
  • Hickory Creek Wilderness
    Hickory Creek Wilderness
    The Hickory Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located on the Bradford Ranger District of the Allegheny National Forest in Warren County, Pennsylvania.-Topography:...

  • High Rock Canyon Wilderness
    High Rock Canyon Wilderness
    The High Rock Canyon Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located on the southwest side of High Rock Canyon and north of the Little High Rock Canyon Wilderness...

  • High Rock Lake Wilderness
    High Rock Lake Wilderness
    The High Rock Lake Wilderness is a wilderness area in Nevada containing the northern portion of the Calico Mountains. High Rock Lake, for which the wilderness was named, was created about 11,800 years ago after a large rockslide closed the outlet to High Rock and Little High Rock Canyons. This new...

  • High Schells Wilderness
    High Schells Wilderness
    The High Schells Wilderness is a wilderness area in White Pine County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. The Wilderness lies within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and is therefore administered by the U.S...

  • High Uintas Wilderness
    High Uintas Wilderness
    The High Uintas Wilderness is a wilderness area located in northeastern Utah, United States. The wilderness covers the Uinta Mountains, encompassing parts of Duchesne and Summit counties. Designated as a wilderness in 1984, the area is located within parts of Ashley National Forest and Wasatch...

  • Highland Ridge Wilderness
    Highland Ridge Wilderness
    Highland Ridge Wilderness is a wilderness area in the southern part of the Snake Range of White Pine County, just south of Great Basin National Park, in the U.S. state of Nevada. Located approximately south of the town of Baker, the Wilderness was designated in 2006 and is administered by the U.S...

  • Hollow Hills Wilderness
  • Holy Cross Wilderness
    Holy Cross Wilderness
    The Holy Cross Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in San Isabel and White River national forests near Leadville, Minturn, Avon, Edwards, Eagle, and Vail, Colorado. The wilderness with of trails was established in 1980. The wilderness was named after its highest peak, Mount of the...

  • Hoover Wilderness
    Hoover Wilderness
    The Hoover Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Inyo and Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forests. It lies to the east of the crest of the central Sierra Nevada in California, to the north and east of Yosemite National Park - a long strip of spectacular scenery stretching nearly to Sonora Pass on the...

  • Horseshoe Bay Wilderness
    Horseshoe Bay Wilderness
    The Horseshoe Bay Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Michigan. It borders Horseshoe Bay, a shallow bay that is part of the extreme northwest corner of Lake Huron adjacent to the Straits of Mackinac...

  • Hummingbird Springs Wilderness
    Hummingbird Springs Wilderness
    The Hummingbird Springs Wilderness is a wilderness administered by the Bureau of Land Management . The wilderness is located in the northwest of Maricopa County in northern regions of the central Sonoran Desert of Arizona....

  • Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness
    Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness
    The Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in White River National Forest east of Aspen, Colorado. The wilderness established in 1978 includes the headwaters of Hunter Creek and the Fryingpan River plus many peaks of the Williams Mountains. It borders on the Mount Massive...

  • Hunting Camp Creek Wilderness
  • Huron Islands Wilderness
  • Hurricane Creek Wilderness
  • Huston Park Wilderness
    Huston Park Wilderness
    The Huston Park Wilderness is located in south central Wyoming in the United States. Entirely within Medicine Bow National Forest, the wilderness was designated in 1984 to preserve the northernmost section of the central Rocky Mountains, an area of high mountain peaks and coniferous forest.U.S....


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    • Ibex Wilderness
    • Imperial Refuge Wilderness
    • Indian Heaven Wilderness
      Indian Heaven Wilderness
      Indian Heaven Wilderness is a protected area located inside the Gifford Pinchot National Forest of southwestern Washington state. Originally known to the Indians as "Sahalee Tyee," the area has been and remains culturally important to Native Americans...

    • Indian Mounds Wilderness
    • Indian Pass Wilderness
      Indian Pass Wilderness
      The Indian Pass Wilderness is wilderness area under the administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The reserve is located in the very southeastern part of the Chocolate Mountains, in the southeastern part of California, just to the west of the Colorado River in the Lower Colorado River Valley...

  • Indian Peaks Wilderness
    Indian Peaks Wilderness
    The Indian Peaks Wilderness is a wilderness area in north central Colorado managed jointly by the United States Forest Service and the National Park Service within the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and small parts of the southern section of Rocky Mountain National Park. It borders the...

  • Innoko Wilderness
    Innoko Wilderness
    Innoko Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was designated by the United States Congress in 1980. It lies within the southeastern part of Innoko National Wildlife Refuge. Innoko Wilderness is a transition zone between the boreal forestland of interior Alaska and the...

  • Inyo Mountains Wilderness
  • Ireteba Peaks Wilderness
  • Irish Wilderness
    Irish Wilderness
    The Irish Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Missouri. The United States Congress designated it a wilderness in 1984. The Irish Wilderness is located within the Eleven Point Ranger District, of the Mark Twain National Forest, northeast of Alton, Missouri...

  • Ishi Wilderness
    Ishi Wilderness
    The Ishi Wilderness is a 41,339 acre wilderness area located on the Lassen National Forest in the Shasta Cascade foothills of northern California, United States. The Ishi Wilderness is located approximately twenty miles east of Red Bluff, California. The wilderness was created when the US Congress...

  • Island Bay Wilderness
  • Isle Royale Wilderness
  • Izembek Wilderness
    Izembek Wilderness
    Izembek Wilderness is a wilderness area in a coastal region of the U.S. state of Alaska panhandle, facing Bristol Bay. Located within the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, all of the land has been designated Wilderness, with the exception of that along a gravel road system and several private...


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    • J. N. "Ding" Darling Wilderness
    • Jacumba Wilderness
    • James Peak Wilderness
      James Peak Wilderness
      The James Peak Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in north central Colorado in the Arapaho and Roosevelt national forests. The wilderness area borders Indian Peaks Wilderness to the north and the James Peak Protection Area to the west.-Geography:...

    • James River Face Wilderness
    • Jarbidge Wilderness
      Jarbidge Wilderness
      The Jarbidge Wilderness is located in the upper elevations of the Jarbidge Mountains in northern Elko County, in northeastern Nevada in the western United States. Established in 1964, it was the first wilderness area in the state...

    • Jedediah Smith Wilderness
      Jedediah Smith Wilderness
      The Jedediah Smith Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Designated wilderness by Congress in 1984, Jedediah Smith Wilderness is within Caribou-Targhee National Forest and borders Grand Teton National Park. Spanning along the western slopes of the Teton Range, the wilderness ensures a...

  • Jennie Lakes Wilderness
    Jennie Lakes Wilderness
    Jennie Lakes Wilderness is a protected area in the Sierra Nevada, in Tulare County, California. It is located east of Fresno and managed by the US Forest Service....

  • Jimbilnan Wilderness
  • John Krebs Wilderness
  • John Muir Wilderness
    John Muir Wilderness
    The John Muir Wilderness is a wilderness area that extends along the crest of the Sierra Nevada of California, USA for , in the Inyo and Sierra National Forests. Established in 1964 by the Wilderness Act and named for naturalist John Muir, it contains...

  • Joseph Battell Wilderness
  • Joshua Tree Wilderness
  • Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness
    Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness
    Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness, created in 1975, covers in the Nantahala National Forest in western North Carolina and the Cherokee National Forest in eastern Tennessee, in the watersheds of the Slickrock and Little Santeetlah Creeks...

  • Jumbo Springs Wilderness
  • Juniper Dunes Wilderness
  • Juniper Mesa Wilderness
  • Juniper Prairie Wilderness
    Juniper Prairie Wilderness
    The Juniper Prairie Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Ocala National Forest in Florida, USA.-Area description:The Juniper Prairie Wilderness was established in 1984 and covers an area of about 54 square kilometers...


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    • Kachina Peaks Wilderness
      Kachina Peaks Wilderness
      Kachina Peaks Wilderness is a wilderness area located approximately north of Flagstaff within the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona....

    • Kaiser Wilderness
      Kaiser Wilderness
      The Kaiser Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness protected area located northeast of Fresno in the state of California, USA. It was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System by the United States Congress on October 19, 1976...

    • Kalmiopsis Wilderness
      Kalmiopsis Wilderness
      Kalmiopsis Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Klamath Mountains of southwestern Oregon, within the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest. It was designated wilderness by the United States Congress in 1964 and now comprises a total of...

    • Kanab Creek Wilderness
      Kanab Creek Wilderness
      Kanab Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located along the Coconino/Mohave County line in the U.S. state of Arizona, approximately south of Fredonia...

    • Karta River Wilderness
      Karta River Wilderness
      Karta River Wilderness is a U. S. wilderness area, centrally located on Prince of Wales Island. It is north of Hollis, Alaska just east of the Kasaan Peninsula and may be accessed by a quick 10 minute plane ride or 30-minute boat ride....

    • Katmai Wilderness
      Katmai Wilderness
      The Katmai Wilderness is a wilderness area in Alaska, United States. It is part of the Katmai National Park and Preserve. Today 15 active volcanoes line Shelikof Strait, which separates Katmai National Park and Preserve from Kodiak Island. Katmai protects this volcanic "laboratory" and, equally...

    • Kelso Dunes Wilderness
  • Kenai Wilderness
  • Kendrick Mountain Wilderness
    Kendrick Mountain Wilderness
    Kendrick Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. State of Arizona. It lies north of the city of Flagstaff on the Coconino Plateau in Coconino County. Kendrick Mountain Wilderness was designated a protected Wilderness area by Congress in 1984. About two thirds of the wilderness is...

  • Kiavah Wilderness
    Kiavah Wilderness
    The Kiavah Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located in the Mojave Desert, Scodie Mountains, and Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains in Kern County, California, United States...

  • Kimberling Creek Wilderness
  • King Range Wilderness
    King Range Wilderness
    The King Range Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area within the King Range National Conservation Area in northern California, United States. The area was set aside with the passage of the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act of 2006...

  • Kingston Range Wilderness
  • Kisatchie Hills Wilderness
  • Kobuk Valley Wilderness
    Kobuk Valley Wilderness
    Kobuk Valley Wilderness is a wilderness area in Alaska, United States. It is part of the Kobuk Valley National Park. The wilderness lies north of the Arctic Circle and enclosed by the Baird Mountains and Waring Mountains mountains, the climate has changed little since the late Pleistocene era...

  • Kofa Wilderness
  • Kootznoowoo Wilderness
    Kootznoowoo Wilderness
    The temperate rainforests of Admiralty Island's Kootznoowoo Wilderness are unique among the of federally protected Wilderness in Southeast Alaska....

  • Koyukuk Wilderness
  • Kuiu Wilderness

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    • La Garita Wilderness
      La Garita Wilderness
      The La Garita Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the La Garita Mountains of southern Colorado. The wilderness established in 1964 in Gunnison and Rio Grande national forests includes a segment of the Colorado Trail...

    • La Madre Mountain Wilderness
    • Lacassine Wilderness
    • Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness
      Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness
      Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness is a protected wilderness area located within the Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests in Washington State. The Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness was designated with the passage of the Washington Wilderness Act of 1984, on lands occupied by the old Chelan Division...

    • Lake Clark Wilderness
    • Lake Woodruff Wilderness
    • Lassen Volcanic Wilderness
    • Latir Peak Wilderness
      Latir Peak Wilderness
      Latir Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico, USA. Designated in 1980, the Wilderness is composed of dense forest, meadows, and alpine tundra on Latir Mesa in the northern portion...

    • Laurel Fork North Wilderness
      Laurel Fork North Wilderness
      Laurel Fork North Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the Greenbrier Ranger District of Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. The Wilderness protects high-elevation lands along Laurel Fork and is bordered by Middle Mountain to the west. It is a companion to Laurel Fork South...

    • Laurel Fork South Wilderness
      Laurel Fork South Wilderness
      Laurel Fork South Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the Greenbrier Ranger District of Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. The Wilderness protects high-elevation lands along Laurel Fork and is bordered by Middle Mountain to the west. It is a companion to Laurel Fork North...

    • Lava Beds Wilderness
    • LaVerkin Creek Wilderness
      LaVerkin Creek Wilderness
      LaVerkin Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to the Kolob Canyons region of Zion National Park, it encompasses and protects the upper headwaters of LaVerkin...

  • Leaf Wilderness
  • Leatherwood Wilderness
  • Lee Metcalf Wilderness
    Lee Metcalf Wilderness
    The Lee Metcalf Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Montana. Created by an act of Congress in 1983, the wilderness is in four separated parcels: Bear Trap Canyon unit, Spanish Peaks unit, Taylor-Hilgard unit, and Monument Mountains unit. The Bear Trap Canyon unit is managed by the U.S....

  • Lewis Fork Wilderness
  • Lime Canyon Wilderness
  • Linville Gorge Wilderness
    Linville Gorge Wilderness
    The Linville Gorge Wilderness is the third largest wilderness area in North Carolina and one of only two wilderness gorges in the Southern United States...

  • Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness
  • Little Dry Run Wilderness
  • Little Frog Mountain Wilderness
  • Little High Rock Canyon Wilderness
    Little High Rock Canyon Wilderness
    The Little High Rock Canyon Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located south of the High Rock Canyon Wilderness and west of the High Rock Lake Wilderness.- External links :*...

  • Little Jacks Creek Wilderness
    Little Jacks Creek Wilderness
    The Little Jacks Creek Wilderness is located on the high basalt plateaus of Owyhee County in southwestern Idaho in the western United States. Big Jacks Creek Wilderness is on its southeast border. About miles of Little Jacks Creek is classified as a wild river....

  • Little Lake Creek Wilderness
  • Little Lake George Wilderness
    Little Lake George Wilderness
    The Little Lake George Wilderness is part of Ocala National Forest. The refuge was established on September 28, 1984. The Wilderness is at the confluence of the St. Johns and Oklawaha Rivers.-Flora:...

  • Little Picacho Wilderness
    Little Picacho Wilderness
    The Little Picacho Wilderness is a wilderness area under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management. The wilderness is found in a southeast extension of the Chocolate Mountains adjacent to the Colorado River, in the southeastern part of California...

  • Little Wambaw Swamp Wilderness
  • Little Wilson Creek Wilderness
  • Lizard Head Wilderness
    Lizard Head Wilderness
    The Lizard Head Wilderness is a wilderness area in southwest Colorado. It contains 41,309 acres and is jointly managed by the Uncompahgre and San Juan National Forests. It is 10 miles southwest of the town of Telluride and is named for a prominent rock formation that is said to look like a...

  • Lone Peak Wilderness
    Lone Peak Wilderness
    The Lone Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Uinta and the Wasatch-Cache National Forest in the U.S. state of Utah.The Lone Peak Wilderness was established in 1978 as part of the Endangered American Wilderness Act and was the only designated wilderness area in Utah until the...

  • Lost Creek Wilderness
    Lost Creek Wilderness
    The Lost Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located in central Colorado in Jefferson and Park counties south of the town of Bailey. The area is situated entirely within the boundaries of the Pike National Forest....

  • Lostwood Wilderness
    Lostwood Wilderness
    Lostwood Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. Created by an act of Congress in 1975, the wilderness covers an area of 5,577 acres . Contained within Lostwood National Wildlife Refuge, the wilderness is managed by the U.S...

  • Lower White River Wilderness
    Lower White River Wilderness
    Lower White River Wilderness is a protected wilderness in the US State of Oregon on the southern part of Mount Hood. In 2009, Congress designated the area a National Wilderness preserve.The White River rises from White River Glacier in White River Canyon...

  • Lusk Creek Wilderness
    Lusk Creek Wilderness
    The Lusk Creek Wilderness is a parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It is located within the Shawnee National Forest in Pope County, Illinois...

  • Lye Brook Wilderness
    Lye Brook Wilderness
    Lye Brook Wilderness is a wilderness area located northwest of Stratton, Vermont, within the Green Mountain National Forest. It is named after Lye Brook, which flows through the western half of the Wilderness...


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    • Machesna Mountain Wilderness
    • Mackinac Wilderness
      Mackinac Wilderness
      The Mackinac Wilderness is a unit within the Hiawatha National Forest. It is located in Mackinac County, Michigan. The wilderness is accessible from M-123, which borders the unit. The nearest town is Moran, Michigan....

    • Magic Mountain Wilderness
    • Malpais Mesa Wilderness
    • Manly Peak Wilderness
    • Manzano Mountain Wilderness
    • Marble Mountain Wilderness
      Marble Mountain Wilderness
      The Marble Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area located northeast of Eureka, California, USA. It is managed by the US Forest Service and is within the Klamath National Forest. The land was first set aside on April 1931 as the Marble Mountain Primitive Area , it was one of four areas to gain...

    • Marjory Stoneman Douglas Wilderness
    • Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness
      Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness
      The Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness is a wilderness area located on the northern side of Mount Hood in the northwestern Cascades of the U.S. state of Oregon, near the Columbia River Gorge and within Mount Hood National Forest...

    • Mark Trail Wilderness
      Mark Trail Wilderness
      The Mark Trail Wilderness was designated in 1991 and currently consists of . It is named in honor of Mark Trail, a daily newspaper comic strip created by the American cartoonist Ed Dodd. The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in White, Towns, and Union...

    • Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness
      Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness
      The Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in the Elk Mountains of central Colorado. The wilderness was established in 1980 in the Gunnison and White River national forests. Within its boundaries are of trails, 6 of Colorado's fourteeners and 9 passes over ....

    • Matilija Wilderness
    • Maurille Islands Wilderness
    • Mazatzal Wilderness
    • McCormick Wilderness
      McCormick Wilderness
      The McCormick Wilderness is a United States Wilderness Area located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It covers an area of about and is located east of the Baraga-Marquette county line...

    • Meadow Valley Range Wilderness
    • Mecca Hills Wilderness
    • Medicine Lake Wilderness
      Medicine Lake Wilderness
      The Medicine Lake Wilderness is located in eastern Montana, in the United States. Preserved to ensure migratory birds have a safe haven during the spring and fall migrations, the wilderness is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and is within Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge.U.S....

    • Menagerie Wilderness
      Menagerie Wilderness
      The Menagerie Wilderness is a designated wilderness area located near Mount Washington in the central Cascade Range of Oregon. It is situated near Highway 20 within the Willamette National Forest and is managed by the US Forest Service.- Geography :...

    • Mesa Verde Wilderness
      Mesa Verde Wilderness
      Mesa Verde Wilderness is a wilderness area located within Mesa Verde National Park in the U.S. state of Colorado.These three small and separate sections of the National Park are located on the steep north and east boundaries and serve as buffers to further protect the significant Native American...

    • Mesquite Wilderness
    • Michigan Islands Wilderness
    • Middle Prong Wilderness
      Middle Prong Wilderness
      The Middle Prong Wilderness was designated in 1984 and it covers in the Pisgah National Forest in western North Carolina. The Wilderness Area spans steep, rugged high-elevation ridges ranging from 3,200 to over 6,400 feet. The area gets its name from the Middle Prong of the Pigeon River finding...

    • Middle Santiam Wilderness
      Middle Santiam Wilderness
      The Middle Santiam Wilderness is a wilderness area located near Mount Washington in the central Cascade Range of Oregon, U.S., within the Willamette National Forest.-Topography:...

    • Mill Creek Wilderness
      Mill Creek Wilderness
      Mill Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Ochoco National Forest of central Oregon. It was established in 1984 and comprises . Of the three wilderness areas in the Ochoco National Forest - Mill Creek, Bridge Creek, and Black Canyon - Mill Creek is the largest and most heavily...

  • Miller Peak Wilderness
  • Mingo Wilderness
    Mingo Wilderness
    Mingo Wilderness is an 8,000 acre U.S. Wilderness Area located in southeastern Missouri in the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge. It was established and governed under the Wilderness Act of 1964....

  • Mission Mountains Wilderness
    Mission Mountains Wilderness
    The Mission Mountains Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Montana. Created by an act of Congress in 1975, the wilderness is within the Swan Lake Ranger District of the Flathead National Forest....

  • Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness
  • Mojave Wilderness
  • Mokelumne Wilderness
    Mokelumne Wilderness
    The Mokelumne Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located east of Sacramento, California. It is within the boundaries of three national forests: Stanislaus, Eldorado and Toiyabe. First protected under the Wilderness Act of 1964, the Mokelumne’s borders were expanded under the...

  • Mollie Beattie Wilderness
    Mollie Beattie Wilderness
    The Mollie Beattie Wilderness is located in the northeastern section of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It is the second-largest designated wilderness area in the United States, after the Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness. It has an area of approximately , and comprises over 40 percent of the...

  • Monarch Wilderness
    Monarch Wilderness
    The Monarch Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located 70 miles east of Fresno, California, in the Sierra Nevada mountain range. It encompasses within both the Sequoia National Forest and the Sierra National Forest and is managed by the United States Forest Service...

  • Monomoy Wilderness
    Monomoy Wilderness
    The Monomoy Wilderness is a wilderness area south of Cape Cod in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It is located within the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge and is administered by the US Fish & Wildlife Service. Severe winter storms isolated Monomoy Point from the mainland in 1958 and, 20 years...

  • Monument Rock Wilderness
    Monument Rock Wilderness
    The Monument Rock Wilderness Area is a wilderness area within the Malheur and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests in Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon. It was designated by the United States Congress in 1984 and comprises...

  • Moosehorn (Baring Unit) Wilderness
  • Moosehorn Wilderness
  • Mormon Mountains Wilderness
  • Mount Adams Wilderness
    Mount Adams Wilderness
    The Mount Adams Wilderness has of ecologically complex and geologically active land. Weather differs between the dry eastside and moist westside of the mountain. At , Mount Adams is one of the major Cascade mountains. The wilderness area is on the west side of the mountain and is part of the...

  • Mount Baker Wilderness
    Mount Baker Wilderness
    Mount Baker Wilderness in northern Washington, USA,contains . Its eastern border is shared with the boundary of the North Cascades National Park for a distance of 40 miles . The Wilderness extends from State Route 20 north to the Canadian border...

  • Mount Baldy Wilderness
  • Mount Charleston Wilderness
  • Mount Evans Wilderness
    Mount Evans Wilderness
    The Mount Evans Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in Arapaho National Forest and Pike National Forest about 40 miles west of Denver, Colorado...

  • Mount Grafton Wilderness
    Mount Grafton Wilderness
    Mount Grafton Wilderness is a wilderness area in southern White Pine County and northern Lincoln County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. The Wilderness lies approximately south of the town of Ely and is administered by the U.S...

  • Mount Hood Wilderness
    Mount Hood Wilderness
    The Mount Hood Wilderness is a protected wilderness area inside the Mount Hood National Forest which is located in the U.S. state of Oregon. The area, covering , includes the peak of Mount Hood and its upper slopes, and ranges from temperate rain forests at the lower elevations, to glaciers and...

  • Mount Irish Wilderness
  • Mount Jefferson Wilderness
    Mount Jefferson Wilderness
    The Mount Jefferson Wilderness is a wilderness area located on and around Mount Jefferson in the central Cascade Range of Oregon in the United States. It is situated where the Willamette, Deschutes, and Mount Hood National Forests meet...

  • Mount Lassic Wilderness
  • Mount Logan Wilderness
    Mount Logan Wilderness
    The Mount Logan Wilderness is a 14,650 acre U.S. wilderness area in the Arizona Strip. It is located about seven miles south of the Mount Trumbull Wilderness. The wilderness is within the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument and is managed by the BLM. -See also:*Wilderness*List of U.S....

  • Mount Massive Wilderness
    Mount Massive Wilderness
    The Mount Massive Wilderness is a federally weird wilderness area in the Sawatch Range, located in the US state of Mexico. It is operated jointly by the United States crudding Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service as parts of the San Isabel National Forest and the Leadville National Fish Hatchery...

  • Mount Moriah Wilderness
  • Mount Naomi Wilderness
    Mount Naomi Wilderness
    Mount Naomi Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Wasatch-Cache National Forest in the U.S. state of Utah. It lies between the Logan River and the Utah-Idaho state line northeast of Logan, Utah.-Topography:...

  • Mount Nebo Wilderness
  • Mount Nutt Wilderness
  • Mount Olympus Wilderness
  • Mount Rainier Wilderness
    Mount Rainier Wilderness
    Mount Rainier Wilderness is a designated wilderness area located within Mount Rainier National Park in the Cascade Range of western Washington, United States.-External links:* - Mount Rainier National Park* - Wilderness.net...

  • Mount Rose Wilderness
  • Mount Shasta Wilderness
    Mount Shasta Wilderness
    The Mount Shasta Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located east of Mount Shasta City in northern California. The US Congress passed the 1984 California Wilderness Act that set aside the Mount Shasta Wilderness. The US Forest Service is the managing agency as the wilderness ...

  • Mount Skokomish Wilderness
    Mount Skokomish Wilderness
    Mount Skokomish Wilderness is a designated wilderness area in the Olympic National Forest on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington in the United States. The wilderness area was established in 1984 and comprises . It is administered by the US Forest Service....

  • Mount Sneffels Wilderness
    Mount Sneffels Wilderness
    The Mount Sneffels Wilderness is a wilderness area in southwest Colorado managed by the Uncompahgre National Forest. It is about 5 miles west of the town of Ouray. The area is named for Mt. Sneffels a prominent fourteener in the San Juan Mountains...

  • Mount Thielsen Wilderness
    Mount Thielsen Wilderness
    The Mount Thielsen Wilderness is a wilderness area located on and around Mount Thielsen in the southern Cascade Range of Oregon, United States. It is located within the Deschutes, Umpqua, and Winema National Forests...

  • Mount Timpanogos Wilderness
    Mount Timpanogos Wilderness
    Mount Timpanogos Wilderness is a wilderness area protecting Mount Timpanogos and the surrounding area. It is located in the front range of the Wasatch Mountain Range, between American Fork Canyon on the north and Provo Canyon on the south, within the Uinta National Forest in the U.S. state of Utah...

  • Mount Tipton Wilderness
    Mount Tipton Wilderness
    The Mount Tipton Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located in northwestern Arizona and comprises the north portion of the Cerbat Mountains; the Cerbat Mountains extend northwesterly from the northern edge of Kingman....

  • Mount Trumbull Wilderness
    Mount Trumbull Wilderness
    The Mount Trumbull Wilderness is a 7,880 acre wilderness area located on the Uinkaret Plateau in the Arizona Strip. It is managed by the Bureau of Land Management....

  • Mount Washington Wilderness
    Mount Washington Wilderness
    The Mount Washington Wilderness is a wilderness area located on and around Mount Washington in the central Cascade Range of Oregon in the United States. The Wilderness Area was established in 1964 and comprises of the Willamette and Deschutes National Forests...

  • Mount Wilson Wilderness
  • Mount Wrightson Wilderness
  • Mount Zirkel Wilderness
    Mount Zirkel Wilderness
    The Mount Zirkel Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located in Routt National Forest in northwest Colorado. The closest city is Steamboat Springs, Colorado...

  • Mountain Lake Wilderness
    Mountain Lake Wilderness
    Mountain Lake Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. The wilderness area is located next to privately owned Mountain Lake, and consists of in Virginia and in West Virginia....

  • Mountain Lakes Wilderness
    Mountain Lakes Wilderness
    The Mountain Lakes Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Fremont–Winema National Forests in the southern Cascade Range of Oregon, USA. It surrounds a cluster of four overlapping shield volcanoes, the highest of which is Aspen Butte...

  • Mud Swamp/New River Wilderness
    Mud Swamp/New River Wilderness
    The Mud Swamp/New River Wilderness is part of Apalachicola National Forest, located in the Florida panhandle. The refuge was established on September 28, 1984....

  • Muddy Mountains Wilderness
  • Muggins Mountain Wilderness
  • Munds Mountain Wilderness

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    • Needle's Eye Wilderness
      Needle's Eye Wilderness
      Needle's Eye Wilderness is a wilderness area located approximately southeast of the town of Globe in Gila County in the U.S. state of Arizona.-Topography:...

    • Nellis Wash Wilderness
    • Neota Wilderness
      Neota Wilderness
      The Neota Wilderness is administered by the USDA Forest Service. It is located on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the Roosevelt National Forest in Colorado. This wilderness area encompasses and is bordered on the south by Rocky Mountain National Park. Elevation ranges from 10,000 to in the...

    • Never Summer Wilderness
      Never Summer Wilderness
      The Never Summer Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located immediately west of Rocky Mountain National Park in the Never Summer Mountains of northern Colorado.-External links:*...

    • New Water Mountains Wilderness
    • Newberry Mountains Wilderness
    • Noatak Wilderness
      Noatak Wilderness
      The Noatak Wilderness is a wilderness area in Alaska, United States. It is part of the Noatak National Preserve. Together with neighboring Gates of the Arctic Wilderness, Noatak National Preserve, more than , protects almost the entirety of the largest untouched river basin in America, that of the...

    • Noisy-Diobsud Wilderness
      Noisy-Diobsud Wilderness
      The Noisy-Diobsud Wilderness is a relatively small wilderness area in northwestern Washington state adjacent to North Cascades National Park. Created in 1984, the Noisy-Diobsud contains of steep valleys, subalpine lakes, and the summits of Anderson Butte and Mount Watson...

  • Nopah Range Wilderness
  • Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness
    Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness
    The Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness is a listed wilderness area within the Manistee National Forest. It is located north of Ludington, Michigan, and is best known for its 4 miles of undeveloped Lake Michigan shoreline.-Geology:...

  • Norse Peak Wilderness
    Norse Peak Wilderness
    Norse Peak Wilderness is located in central Washington in the United States. It protects the portion of the Cascade Range north of Chinook Pass , south of Naches Pass , and east of Mt. Rainier National Park. This 50,923 acre wilderness is named for a prominent peak which overlooks Crystal Mountain...

  • North Absaroka Wilderness
    North Absaroka Wilderness
    The North Absaroka Wilderness is located in Shoshone National Forest in the U.S. state of Wyoming. It lies adjacent to the eastern border of Yellowstone National Park.U.S. Wilderness Areas do not allow motorized or mechanized vehicles, including bicycles...

  • North Algodones Dunes Wilderness
  • North Black Rock Range Wilderness
    North Black Rock Range Wilderness
    The North Black Rock Range Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located northeast of Soldier Meadows and south of the Summit Lake Indian Reservation.- External links :*...

  • North Fork John Day Wilderness
    North Fork John Day Wilderness
    The North Fork John Day Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests, in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon....

  • North Fork Owyhee Wilderness
    North Fork Owyhee Wilderness
    The North Fork Owyhee Wilderness is located on the high basalt plateaus of Owyhee County in southwestern Idaho in the western United States. The rivers within it offer whitewater rapids up to Class IV. About miles of North Fork of the Owyhee River is classified as a wild river.-Geography:The...

  • North Fork Umatilla Wilderness
    North Fork Umatilla Wilderness
    The North Fork Umatilla Wilderness is a wilderness area located inside the Umatilla National Forest, in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon...

  • North Fork Wilderness
  • North Jackson Mountains Wilderness
    North Jackson Mountains Wilderness
    The North Jackson Mountains Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located in the Jackson Mountains north of the South Jackson Mountains Wilderness and east of the Black Rock Desert Wilderness....

  • North Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
  • North McCullough Wilderness
  • North Mesquite Mountains Wilderness
  • North Santa Teresa Wilderness
  • Nunivak Wilderness

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    • Ojito Wilderness
    • Okefenokee Wilderness
      Okefenokee Wilderness
      Okefenokee Wilderness is an 353,981 acre U.S. Wilderness Area located in southeastern Georgia in the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. It was established and governed under the Wilderness Act of 1974 when were designated as wilderness by...

    • Old Woman Mountains Wilderness
      Old Woman Mountains Wilderness
      Old Women Mountains Wilderness is a wilderness area located south of Essex, California. This wilderness was established in 1994 and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management....

    • Olympic Wilderness
      Olympic Wilderness
      Olympic Wilderness is a protected area comprising over 95% of Olympic National Park in Washington State. It includes of Pacific Ocean coastline. It is the largest wilderness area in Washington.- External links :* * *...

    • Opal Creek Wilderness
      Opal Creek Wilderness
      The Opal Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Willamette National Forest in the U.S. state of Oregon, on the border of the Mount Hood National Forest...

  • Oregon Badlands Wilderness
    Oregon Badlands Wilderness
    Oregon Badlands Wilderness is a wilderness area located east of Bend in Deschutes and Crook counties in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was created by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 30, 2009.The wilderness is situated on...

  • Oregon Islands Wilderness
  • Organ Pipe Cactus Wilderness
  • Orocopia Mountains Wilderness
  • Otay Mountain Wilderness
  • Otis Pike Fire Island High Dune Wilderness
    Otis Pike Fire Island High Dune Wilderness
    The Otis Pike High Dune Wilderness Area, also known as the Otis G. Pike Wilderness Area, is a federally protected wilderness area composed of barrier islands off the south shore of Long Island, New York....

  • Otter Creek Wilderness
    Otter Creek Wilderness
    The Otter Creek Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness area located in the Cheat-Potomac Ranger District of Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. The Wilderness sits in a bowl-shaped valley formed by Otter Creek, between McGowan Mountain and Shavers Mountain in Tucker County and Randolph County,...

  • Owens Peak Wilderness
    Owens Peak Wilderness
    The Owens Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area comprising the rugged eastern face of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Owens Peak is the high point...

  • Owens River Headwaters Wilderness
  • Owyhee River Wilderness
    Owyhee River Wilderness
    The Owyhee River Wilderness is located on the high basalt plateaus of Owyhee County in southwestern Idaho in the western United States. The wilderness area is named after and protects the upper Owyhee River, its tributaries, and the surrounding desert canyon landscape. Whitewater rafting is a...


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    • Paddy Creek Wilderness
      Paddy Creek Wilderness
      The Paddy Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Missouri, United States. The United States Congress designated it wilderness in 1983. Paddy Creek Wilderness is located within the Houston-Rolla Ranger District, of the Mark Twain National Forest, northwest of Licking, Missouri....

    • Pahrump Valley Wilderness
    • Pahute Peak Wilderness
      Pahute Peak Wilderness
      The Pahute Peak Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located in the central Black Rock Range west of the Black Rock Desert Wilderness.- External links :*...

    • Paiute Wilderness
      Paiute Wilderness
      The Paiute Wilderness is an 87,900 acre wilderness area located in the U.S. state of Arizona. The wilderness is administered by the Bureau of Land Management.-References:, accessed August 25, 2010.-See also:*Wilderness*Wilderness Act...

    • Pajarita Wilderness
    • Palen/McCoy Wilderness
    • Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness
    • Panther Den Wilderness
      Panther Den Wilderness
      The Panther Den Wilderness is a parcel of land listed as a Wilderness Area of the United States. It is located within the Shawnee National Forest in Union County in the U.S...

    • Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
      Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
      The Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness is a wilderness area located in northern Arizona and southern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region. The wilderness is composed of broad plateaus, tall escarpments, and deep canyons....

    • Parsnip Peak Wilderness
      Parsnip Peak Wilderness
      Parsnip Peak Wilderness is a wilderness in northeastern Lincoln County, Nevada. Its elevations range from . It received wilderness status in 2004....

    • Pasayten Wilderness
      Pasayten Wilderness
      The Pasayten Wilderness is a 2145 km². protected area located within Okanogan National Forest and Mount Baker National Forest in Washington State, centered on the Three Forks of the Pasayten River, a tributary of the Similkameen River. The northern boundary of the wilderness is the Canadian...

    • Passage Key Wilderness
    • Pecos Wilderness
      Pecos Wilderness
      The Pecos Wilderness is a protected wilderness area within the Santa Fe National Forest and Carson National Forest. The Pecos Wilderness is in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of north central New Mexico, easily accessible from Santa Fe, the state capital. Covering an area of , it is the second...

    • Pelican Island Wilderness
    • Peloncillo Mountains Wilderness
    • Pemigewasset Wilderness
      Pemigewasset Wilderness
      The Pemigewasset Wilderness is a federally-designated Wilderness Area in the heart of New Hampshire's White Mountains. It is a part of the White Mountain National Forest....

  • Peru Peak Wilderness
  • Peters Mountain Wilderness
  • Petersburg Creek-Duncan Salt Chuck Wilderness
  • Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area
  • Phillip Burton Wilderness
    Phillip Burton Wilderness
    The Phillip Burton Wilderness is part of the Point Reyes National Seashore located about northeast of San Francisco, California. Total wilderness land is 33,373 acres which includes a roadless "potential wilderness" area of over and is the only designated wilderness along the California coast...

  • Picacho Peak Wilderness
  • Pine Creek Wilderness
  • Pine Mountain Wilderness
  • Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness
    Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness
    Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Dixie National Forest in the U.S. state of Utah. It is the fourth-largest wilderness area located entirely within the state...

  • Piney Creek Wilderness
    Piney Creek Wilderness
    The Piney Creek Wilderness is an wilderness area in the U.S. state of Missouri. The United States Congress designated it wilderness in 1980. The Piney Creek Wilderness is located within the Ava-Cassville-Willow Springs Ranger District, of the Mark Twain National Forest, east of Cassville, Missouri...

  • Pinnacles Wilderness
  • Pinto Mountains Wilderness
  • Pinto Valley Wilderness
  • Pipe Creek Wildlife Area
  • Piper Mountain Wilderness
    Piper Mountain Wilderness
    The Piper Mountain Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located in the White Mountains northeast of Big Pine, California in Inyo County, California....

  • Piute Mountains Wilderness
  • Platte River Wilderness
    Platte River Wilderness
    The Platte River Wilderness is primarily located in south central Wyoming, with a small section extending into Colorado in the United States. Located entirely within Medicine Bow - Routt National Forest, the wilderness was created in 1984 to protect the forestlands adjacent to the North Platte River...

  • Pleasant/Lemusurier/Inian Islands Wilderness
  • Pleasant View Ridge Wilderness
  • Pocosin Wilderness
  • Pole Creek Wilderness
    Pole Creek Wilderness
    The Pole Creek Wilderness is located on the high basalt plateaus of Owyhee County in southwestern Idaho in the western United States. Its whitewater rapids are a popular attraction.-Geography:...

  • Pond Mountain Wilderness
  • Pond Pine Wilderness
  • Popo Agie Wilderness
    Popo Agie Wilderness
    Popo Agie Wilderness is located within Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, United States. The wilderness consists of 101,870 acres on the east side of the continental divide in the Wind River Range. Originally set aside as a primitive area in 1932, in 1984 the Wyoming Wilderness Act was passed...

  • Porcupine Lake Wilderness
  • Poteau Mountain Wilderness
  • Powderhorn Wilderness
    Powderhorn Wilderness
    The Powderhorn Wilderness is a wilderness area in Hinsdale and Gunnison Counties, Colorado, USA, located northeast of Lake City. Most of the northern part of the area, , about 77.5%, is located on Bureau of Land Management land and its southern portion, , about 22.5%, is located within the...

  • Presidential Range-Dry River Wilderness
  • Priest Wilderness
    Priest Wilderness
    The Priest Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the Glenwood/Pedlar Ranger District of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. The wilderness area is located just south of the Tye River, the Three Ridges Wilderness, and Virginia State Route 56...

  • Ptarmigan Peak Wilderness
    Ptarmigan Peak Wilderness
    The Ptarmigan Peak Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located north of Dillion, Colorado in the Williams Fork Mountains. The wilderness was established in 1993 in the White River and Routt national forests....

  • Pusch Ridge Wilderness

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    • Raccoon Branch Wilderness
    • Raggeds Wilderness
      Raggeds Wilderness
      The Raggeds Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located northwest of Crested Butte, Colorado. The wilderness established in 1980 in the White River and Gunnison national forests has of trails....

    • Rainbow Lake Wilderness
    • Rainbow Mountain Wilderness
    • Ramseys Draft Wilderness
    • Rattlesnake Wilderness
      Rattlesnake Wilderness
      The Rattlesnake Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Montana. Created by an act of Congress in 1980, the wilderness is within Lolo National Forest and is located only 4 miles north of Missoula, Montana. The wilderness area is located adjacent to the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area.U.S...

    • Raven Cliffs Wilderness
      Raven Cliffs Wilderness
      The Raven Cliffs Wilderness was designated in 1986 and currently consists of . The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in White, Lumpkin, and Union Counties, Georgia...

    • Rawah Wilderness
      Rawah Wilderness
      The Rawah Wilderness is administered by the USDA Forest Service. It is located on the Canyon Lakes Ranger District of the Roosevelt National Forest in Colorado, near the Wyoming border, and also in the Routt National Forest to its south. It encompasses and includes 25 named lakes ranging in...

    • Rawhide Mountains Wilderness
    • Red Butte Wilderness
      Red Butte Wilderness
      Red Butte Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to Kolob Canyons section of Zion National Park, it encompasses and protects much of the Red Butte...

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    • Red Buttes Wilderness
      Red Buttes Wilderness
      The Red Buttes Wilderness is a wilderness area in Rogue River – Siskiyou National Forest in the U.S. states of Oregon and California. It comprises , approximately of which is located in California, and in Oregon...

       (California and Oregon)
    • Red Mountain Wilderness (Nevada)
    • Red Mountain Wilderness (Utah)
      Red Mountain Wilderness (Utah)
      Not to be confused with Red Mountain Wilderness , which is a separate entityThe Red Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located six miles northeast of St...

  • Red Rock Lakes Wilderness
    Red Rock Lakes Wilderness
    The Red Rock Lakes Wilderness is within the Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in southwest Montana, United States. The wilderness occupies more than three fourths of the refuge and was set aside to enhance species preservation, especially for such waterfowl as the trumpeter swan...

  • Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness
    Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness
    The Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona.The Wilderness is predominantly wind and water sculpted pinnacles, windows, arches, and slot canyons, and the red-rock cliffs of the Mogollon Rim that mark the edge...

  • Redfield Canyon Wilderness
  • Resting Spring Range Wilderness
  • Rice Valley Wilderness
  • Rich Hole Wilderness
    Rich Hole Wilderness
    Rich Hole Wilderness is a designated wilderness area in the James River Ranger District of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests of Virginia in the United States. The wilderness area was established in 1988 and comprises...

  • Rich Mountain Wilderness
    Rich Mountain Wilderness
    The Rich Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Chattahoochee National Forest in Gilmer County, Georgia, in the United States. It was designated in 1986 and currently consists of of the that makes up the Rich Mountains...

  • Richland Creek Wilderness
  • Rincon Mountain Wilderness
  • Riverside Mountains Wilderness
  • Roaring Plains West Wilderness
    Roaring Plains West Wilderness
    The Roaring Plains West Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, USA. It is part of the Monongahela National Forest and includes Mount Porte Crayon, the sixth highest point in the state....

  • Roaring River Wilderness
    Roaring River Wilderness
    Roaring River Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Mount Hood National Forest in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. Southwest of Mount Hood, Oregon's tallest mountain, the area was created in 2009...

  • Rock Creek Wilderness
    Rock Creek Wilderness
    The Rock Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area comprising within the Siuslaw National Forest on the Oregon Coast. It was created in 1984, along with the Drift Creek Wilderness and Cummins Creek Wilderness.-Topography:...

  • Rock River Canyon Wilderness
    Rock River Canyon Wilderness
    The Rock River Canyon Wilderness is a unit within the Hiawatha National Forest. It is located in Alger County, Michigan. The wilderness is accessible from M-94, which runs south of the unit in a west-to-east direction...

  • Rockpile Mountain Wilderness
    Rockpile Mountain Wilderness
    The Rockpile Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Missouri. It takes its name from an ancient circle of granite rock, piled by some earlier man on top of the mountain. It is located in Madison County, Missouri southeast of Bell Mountain and southwest of Fredericktown,...

  • Rocks and Islands Wilderness
  • Rocky Mountain National Park Wilderness
  • Rodman Mountains Wilderness
  • Rogue–Umpqua Divide Wilderness
  • Rough Mountain Wilderness
    Rough Mountain Wilderness
    Rough Mountain Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the Warm Springs Ranger District of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. The wilderness area is located on Rough Mountain and consists of . Rough Mountain Wilderness ranges in elevation from to at Griffin Knob...

  • Round Island Wilderness
  • Ruby Mountains Wilderness
    Ruby Mountains Wilderness
    The Ruby Mountains Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Ruby Mountains of Elko County, in the northeast section of the state of Nevada in the western United States. It covers an area of approximately 90,000 acres , and is administered by the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.-External...

  • Russell Fjord Wilderness
  • Russian Wilderness
    Russian Wilderness
    The Russian Wilderness is a wilderness area of located approximately northeast of Eureka in northern California. It is within the Klamath National Forest in Siskiyou County and is managed by the US Forest Service...


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    • Sabinoso Wilderness
    • Sacatar Trail Wilderness
      Sacatar Trail Wilderness
      The Sacatar Trail Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located northwest of Ridgecrest, California USA.It was created in 1994 with the passage of the California Desert Protection Act - Public Law 103-433 - and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management .The wilderness is in size...

    • Saddle Mountain Wilderness
    • Saddle Peak Hills Wilderness
    • Saguaro Wilderness
    • Saint Lazaria Wilderness
    • Saint Mary's Wilderness
      Saint Mary's Wilderness
      Saint Mary's Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. The wilderness area is located next to the Blue Ridge Parkway near the Parkway's northern terminus and consists of . Saint Mary's Wilderness is the largest Virginia Wilderness on national...

    • Salmon–Huckleberry Wilderness
    • Salmo-Priest Wilderness
      Salmo-Priest Wilderness
      Salmo-Priest Wilderness is a 41,335 acre wilderness area located in the Selkirk Mountains in the northeast corner of Washington state, within the Colville National Forest and the Kaniksu National Forest.-Topography:...

    • Salome Wilderness
      Salome Wilderness
      The Salome Wilderness of Tonto National Forest is a protected area in the rim country of the southwestern USA. The Salome Wilderness lies within the Sierra Ancha mountain range in Gila County, Arizona.-Ecology:...

    • Salt Creek Wilderness
    • Salt River Canyon Wilderness
      Salt River Canyon Wilderness
      Salt River Canyon Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Tonto National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona.The Salt River and its deep canyon bisect the entire length of the wilderness...

    • Sampson Mountain Wilderness
    • San Gabriel Wilderness
      San Gabriel Wilderness
      The San Gabriel Wilderness is a wilderness area created in 1968 of more than 36,118 acres within the Angeles National Forest. The area lies on the southern slopes of the San Gabriel Mountains, between the Angeles Crest and the West Fork of the San Gabriel River.The area was originally set aside...

    • San Gorgonio Wilderness
      San Gorgonio Wilderness
      San Gorgonio Wilderness is located in the San Bernardino Mountains, north of Morongo Valley and approximately northwest of Palm Springs, California...

    • San Jacinto Wilderness
    • San Juan Wilderness
      San Juan Wilderness
      San Juan Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the San Juan Archipelago in northwestern Washington, United States. The wilderness designation protects 81 of the 83 islands that make up the San Juan Islands National Wildlife Refuge scattered over ....

    • San Mateo Canyon Wilderness
    • San Pedro Parks Wilderness
    • San Rafael Wilderness
      San Rafael Wilderness
      The San Rafael Wilderness is a wilderness area in the mountains of north central Santa Barbara County, California, USA. It is completely contained within the Los Padres National Forest, and is north of the city of Santa Barbara and east of Santa Maria...

    • Sandia Mountain Wilderness
      Sandia Mountain Wilderness
      Sandia Mountain Wilderness, part of Cibola National Forest, is located east of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It became part of the National Wilderness Preservation System in 1978 by an act of the United States Congress and has a total of ....

    • Sandwich Range Wilderness
    • Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
      Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
      The Sangre de Cristo Wilderness is a long and narrow wilderness area covering much of the Sangre de Cristo Range centered about Saguache County and Custer County, Colorado. Smaller areas are located in the counties of Fremont, Alamosa, and Huerfano. All of the wilderness area is located on U.S...

    • Sanhedrin Wilderness
    • Santa Lucia Wilderness
    • Santa Rosa Wilderness
      Santa Rosa Wilderness
      The Santa Rosa Wilderness is a wilderness area in Southern California, in the Santa Rosa Mountains of Riverside and San Diego counties, California. It is in the Colorado Desert section of the Sonoran Desert, above the Coachella Valley and Lower Colorado River Valley regions in a Peninsular...

    • Santa Rosa-Paradise Peak Wilderness
      Santa Rosa-Paradise Peak Wilderness
      The Santa Rosa-Paradise Peak Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the southern part of the Santa Rosa Range in Humboldt County, in northern Nevada in the western United States. It covers an area of approximately 31,000 acres , and is administered by the Humboldt-Toiyabe National...

    • Santa Teresa Wilderness
    • Sarvis Creek Wilderness
      Sarvis Creek Wilderness
      The Sarvis Creek Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located south of Steamboat Springs, Colorado in the Routt national forest. -External links:*...

    • Savage Run Wilderness
      Savage Run Wilderness
      The Savage Run Wilderness is located in south central Wyoming in the United States. Entirely within Medicine Bow National Forest, the wilderness was designated in 1978 in an effort to protect vital rangeland for a large elk population....

    • Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness
      Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness
      The Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness is a federal wilderness area of located south of Borrego Springs, California in San Diego County. This land was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System when the US Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act of 1994...

    • Sawtooth Wilderness
      Sawtooth Wilderness
      The Sawtooth Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Idaho. Managed by the U.S. Forest Service in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The Wilderness was upgraded in 1972 from "primitive area" status, affording greater protections of the habitat...

  • Scapegoat Wilderness
    Scapegoat Wilderness
    The Scapegoat Wilderness consists of 239,936 acres spread across three different National Forests in the U.S. state of Montana. Created by an act of Congress in 1972, the wilderness is located in Lewis and Clark, Helena and Lolo National Forests...

  • Selawik Wilderness
  • Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
    Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
    The Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the states of Idaho and Montana, in the northwestern United States.At 1.3 million acres , it is one of the largest designated wilderness areas in the United States . It spans the Bitterroot Mountain Range, on the border between...

  • Semidi Wilderness
  • Seney Wilderness
  • Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness
  • Sespe Wilderness
  • Shawvers Run Wilderness
  • Sheep Mountain Wilderness
    Sheep Mountain Wilderness
    Sheep Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area of in the Angeles National Forest located in Southern California. The US Congress passed the California Wilderness Act of 1984 which created the wilderness and added it to the National Wilderness Preservation System.Notable hiking in the area includes...

  • Sheep Ridge Wilderness
  • Sheephole Valley Wilderness
  • Shellback Wilderness
    Shellback Wilderness
    Shellback Wilderness is a wilderness area in western White Pine County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. The Wilderness lies within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and is therefore administered by the U.S...

  • Shenandoah Wilderness
  • Shining Rock Wilderness
    Shining Rock Wilderness
    The Shining Rock Wilderness is a protected Wilderness Area in the U.S. state of North Carolina. Its first have been part of the National Wilderness Preservation System since the System was created in 1964...

  • Sierra Ancha Wilderness
    Sierra Ancha Wilderness
    The Sierra Ancha Wilderness area comprises within the Tonto National Forest, Arizona, USA. The terrain varies from box canyons to high cliffs and pine-covered mountains. Elevations range from lows of about to a high of at Aztec Peak...

  • Sierra Estrella Wilderness
  • Signal Mountain Wilderness
  • Silver Peak Wilderness
    Silver Peak Wilderness
    The Silver Peak Wilderness is located in the southwestern corner of Monterey County in the Santa Lucia Mountains along the Central Coast of California. It southern boundary largely follows the Monterey County/San Luis Obispo County line. Its eastern boundary is defined by Ft. Hunter Liggett, while...

  • Simeonof Wilderness
  • Sipsey Wilderness
    Sipsey Wilderness
    The Sipsey Wilderness lies within Bankhead National Forest around the Sipsey Fork of the Black Warrior River in northwestern Alabama, USA. The Sipsey Wilderness is the third largest wilderness area east of the Mississippi River. Designated in 1975 and expanded in 1988, the Sipsey is the largest...

  • Siskiyou Wilderness
    Siskiyou Wilderness
    The Siskiyou Wilderness is a federal wilderness area designated by the passage of the California Wilderness Act of 1984. Originally, the land area was The Northern California Wild Heritage Act of 2006 added for the current total of . All of the wilderness is in Northern California and is managed...

  • Sky Lakes Wilderness
    Sky Lakes Wilderness
    The Sky Lakes Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Rogue River-Siskiyou and Winema National Forests in the southern Cascade Range of Oregon, U.S.. It comprises . of the area are located in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, and located in the Winema National Forest...

  • Slaughter Creek Wilderness
    Slaughter Creek Wilderness
    Slaughter Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009...

  • Snow Mountain Wilderness
    Snow Mountain Wilderness
    The Snow Mountain Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located north of Santa Rosa, California, USA in the Mendocino National Forest. The U.S. Congress passed the California Wilderness Act of 1984 which created 23 new wilderness areas including Snow Mountain. It lies within the...

  • Soda Mountain Wilderness
    Soda Mountain Wilderness
    The Soda Mountain Wilderness is a protected wilderness area inside the Cascade–Siskiyou National Monument located in the U.S. state of Oregon adjacent to the California state border...

  • Soldier Creek Wilderness
    Soldier Creek Wilderness
    Soldier Creek Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. Created by an act of Congress in 1986, the wilderness is managed by the U.S. Forest Service and covers an area of 7,794 acres within the Pine Ridge section of the Nebraska National Forest...

  • South Baranof Wilderness
  • South Egan Range Wilderness
    South Egan Range Wilderness
    South Egan Range Wilderness is a wilderness area in Lincoln, White Pine, and Nye Counties in the U.S. state of Nevada. Located in the Egan Range approximately two miles east of the town of Lund, the Wilderness was created by the "White Pine County Conservation, Recreation and Development Act of...

  • South Etolin Wilderness
  • South Fork Eel River Wilderness
    South Fork Eel River Wilderness
    The South Fork Eel River Wilderness is a 12,868 acre wilderness area located in Mendocino County, California. The wilderness was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System when the United States Congress passed the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act in 2006...

  • South Fork San Jacinto Wilderness
  • South Jackson Mountains Wilderness
    South Jackson Mountains Wilderness
    The South Jackson Mountains Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management. It is located in the Jackson Mountains south of the North Jackson Mountains Wilderness and east of the Black Rock Desert Wilderness....

  • South Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
  • South McCullough Wilderness
  • South Nopah Range Wilderness
  • South Pahroc Range Wilderness
  • South Prince of Wales Wilderness
  • South San Juan Wilderness
    South San Juan Wilderness
    The South San Juan Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located east of Pagosa Springs, Colorado in the San Juan national forest.-External links:*...

  • South Sierra Wilderness
    South Sierra Wilderness
    The South Sierra Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness protected area located northeast of Bakersfield, California.Created with the passage of the California Wilderness Act of 1984 by the U.S. Congress, it is in size, is within both the Sequoia and Inyo national forests and is managed...

  • South Warner Wilderness
    South Warner Wilderness
    The South Warner Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area east of Alturas, California, USA. It encompasses more than of the Warner Mountains....

  • Southern Nantahala Wilderness
    Southern Nantahala Wilderness
    The Southern Nantahala Wilderness was designated in 1984 and currently consists of . Approximately are located in Georgia in the Chattahoochee National Forest and approximately are located in North Carolina in the Nantahala National Forest. The Wilderness is managed by the United States Forest...

  • Spanish Peaks Wilderness
    Spanish Peaks Wilderness
    The Spanish Peaks Wilderness is a 17,855 acre wilderness area in Huerfano County and Las Animas County, Colorado, USA, located 20 miles southwest of Walsenburg. All of the wilderness area is located on U.S...

  • Spice Run Wilderness
    Spice Run Wilderness
    Spice Run Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness area within the Monongahela National Forest of West Virginia, USA. Fairly remote, it has no passenger car access whatever.-Access:...

  • Spirit Mountain Wilderness
    Spirit Mountain Wilderness
    Spirit Mountain Wilderness Area is a wilderness area located in the Newberry Mountains in Clark County, Nevada, northwest of Laughlin. Spirit Mountain lies within the area. It is managed by the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service....

  • Spring Basin Wilderness
    Spring Basin Wilderness
    Spring Basin Wilderness is a wilderness area located near the town of Clarno in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was created by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 30, 2009....

  • St. Marks Wilderness
  • Stateline Wilderness
    Stateline Wilderness
    Located in San Bernardino County, California approximately three miles northwest of Primm, NV and I-15, the small but pristine 7,004-acre Stateline Wilderness contains the eastern terminus of the 15-mile long Clark Mountain Range....

  • Steens Mountain Wilderness
    Steens Mountain Wilderness
    Steens Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area surrounding a portion of Steens Mountain of southeastern Oregon, U.S. The reserve falls within the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area . Both the reserve and the CMPA are administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The...

  • Stephen Mather Wilderness
    Stephen Mather Wilderness
    The Stephen Mather Wilderness is a wilderness area honoring Stephen Mather, the first director of the National Park Service. It is located within North Cascades National Park, Lake Chelan National Recreation Area, and Ross Lake National Recreation Area in the North Cascade Range of Washington,...

  • Stepladder Mountains Wilderness
  • Stikine-LeConte Wilderness
    Stikine-LeConte Wilderness
    The Stikine-LeConte Wilderness is on the mainland of southeast Alaska, southeast of Petersburg and north of Wrangell, Alaska. The boundary extends from Frederick Sound on the west to the Alaska-Canada boundary on the east. The wilderness is in size...

  • Stone Mountain Wilderness
  • Strawberry Crater Wilderness
  • Strawberry Mountain Wilderness
    Strawberry Mountain Wilderness
    Strawberry Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area of the Strawberry Mountain Range, within Malheur National Forest in the Blue Mountains of east Oregon. The area comprises , including mountain peaks and several lakes, and contains more than of hiking trails...

  • Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness
    Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness
    The Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness is a unit within the Ottawa National Forest. It is located in Baraga County and Houghton County within the U.S. state of Michigan. The wilderness is accessible from M-28, which runs south of the unit in a west-to-east direction...

  • Superstition Wilderness
  • Surprise Canyon Wilderness
  • Swanquarter Wilderness
  • Swansea Wilderness
  • Sycamore Canyon Wilderness
  • Sylvania Mountains Wilderness
    Sylvania Mountains Wilderness
    The Sylvania Mountains Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located east of Bishop in the state of California. The wilderness is 18,677acres in size and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management . The California Desert Protection Act of 1994 created the Sylvania Mountains...

  • Sylvania Wilderness
    Sylvania Wilderness
    Sylvania Wilderness is an protected area located a few miles west of Watersmeet, Michigan. Sylvania is located entirely within the bounds of the Ottawa National Forest, and is currently being managed as a wilderness area as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System by the U.S. Forest...


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    • Table Mountain Wilderness
      Table Mountain Wilderness
      The Table Mountain Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Monitor Range of Nye County in central section of the state of Nevada. It is the third largest wilderness area in the state. The nearest city is Tonopah, Nevada. The Table Mountain Wilderness Area covers an area of , and is...

    • Table Rock Wilderness
      Table Rock Wilderness
      The Table Rock Wilderness is a small pocket wilderness designated in 1984in the western Cascade Mountains in northwestern Oregon, United States. The wilderness area protects of forest in the historic Molalla River–Pudding River drainage basin, some southeast of Molalla, Oregon and southeast of...

    • Table Top Wilderness
    • Tamarac Wilderness
      Tamarac Wilderness
      The Tamarac Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Established by the United States Congress in 1976, Tamarac Wilderness is composed primarily of small lakes, wooded potholes, bogs and marshes...

    • Tatoosh Wilderness
      Tatoosh Wilderness
      The Tatoosh Wilderness, located in Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, is managed by the U.S. Forest Service and protects . In 1984 it was officially designated as wilderness by Congress....

    • Taylor Creek Wilderness
      Taylor Creek Wilderness
      Taylor Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the US state of Utah. It was designated March 30, 2009, as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009. Located adjacent to the Kolob Canyons region of Zion National Park, it encompasses and protects the upper headwaters of Taylor Creek,...

    • Tebenkof Bay Wilderness
    • Teton Wilderness
      Teton Wilderness
      Teton Wilderness is located in Wyoming, United States. Created in 1964, the Teton Wilderness is located within Bridger-Teton National Forest and consists of 585,238 acres . The wilderness is bordered on the north by Yellowstone National Park and to the west by Grand Teton National Park and the John...

    • The Brothers Wilderness
      The Brothers Wilderness
      The Brothers Wilderness area is located in the Olympic National Forest on the eastern side of the Olympic Peninsula south of Buckhorn Wilderness and north of Mt. Skokomish Wilderness. The area was created in 1984 and now includes . The Brothers wilderness is named after The Brothers peaks which...

    • Theodore Roosevelt Wilderness
      Theodore Roosevelt Wilderness
      Theodore Roosevelt Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of North Dakota. Created by an act of Congress in 1978, the wilderness covers an area of 29,920 acres and comprises over a third of the entire area of Theodore Roosevelt National Park both of which are managed by the National Park Service...

  • Thousand Lakes Wilderness
    Thousand Lakes Wilderness
    The Thousand Lakes Wilderness is located within the southern portion of the Cascade Range in northeastern California. The wilderness was established in 1964 with the passage of the Wilderness Act and is administered by Lassen National Forest...

  • Three Arch Rocks Wilderness
  • Three Ridges Wilderness
    Three Ridges Wilderness
    Three Ridges Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in the Glenwood/Pedlar Ranger District of the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. The wilderness area is located just east of the Blue Ridge Parkway between the Tye River and Wintergreen Ski Resort.It is separated from the boundary of...

  • Three Sisters Wilderness
    Three Sisters Wilderness
    The Three Sisters Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Cascade Range, within the Willamette and Deschutes National Forests in Oregon. It comprises 286,708 acres , making it the second largest Wilderness area in Oregon...

  • Thunder Ridge Wilderness
  • Togiak Wilderness
    Togiak Wilderness
    Togiak Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area in the Dillingham and Bethel Census Areas in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Alaska. At , it occupies the northern half of the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge...

  • Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness
  • Trapper Creek Wilderness
    Trapper Creek Wilderness
    The small Trapper Creek Wilderness area consists of in southern Washington in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest. The wilderness covers nearly the entire Trapper Creek drainage and is the only pristine anadromous fish habitat in the Wind River watershed. The terrain is very steep and rugged and...

  • Tray Mountain Wilderness
    Tray Mountain Wilderness
    The Tray Mountain Wilderness was designated in 1986 and currently consists of . The Wilderness is located within the borders of the Chattahoochee National Forest in Habersham, Rabun, Towns and White counties, Georgia and is managed in the Chattooga Ranger District...

  • Tres Alamos Wilderness
  • Trigo Mountain Wilderness
  • Trilobite Wilderness
  • Trinity Alps Wilderness
    Trinity Alps Wilderness
    The Trinity Alps Wilderness is a designated wilderness located in northern California, roughly between Eureka and Redding. It is jointly administered by Shasta-Trinity, Klamath, and Six Rivers National Forests. About are administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The wilderness is located in...

  • Tunnel Spring Wilderness
  • Turkey Hill Wilderness
  • Turtle Mountains Wilderness
  • Tuxedni Wilderness
  • Twin Peaks Wilderness

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    • UL Bend Wilderness
      UL Bend Wilderness
      The UL Bend Wilderness comprises 20,819 acres and is located in the U.S. state of Montana within the UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge, which in turn is also completely surrounded by the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge. Bordering on the Fort Peck Reservoir, a portion of the Missouri...

    • Unaka Mountain Wilderness
    • Uncompahgre Wilderness
      Uncompahgre Wilderness
      The Uncompahgre Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area in southwest Colorado comprising 102,721 acres...

  • Unimak Wilderness
  • Upland Island Wilderness
  • Upper Buffalo Wilderness
  • Upper Burro Creek Wilderness
    Upper Burro Creek Wilderness
    Upper Burro Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located in Yavapai and Mohave Counties in the U.S. state of Arizona, approximately northwest of the town of Bagdad.-Topography:...

  • Upper Kiamichi River Wilderness
    Upper Kiamichi River Wilderness
    The Upper Kiamichi River Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Created by an act of Congress in 1988, the wilderness covers an area of 9,754 acres . Contained within Ouachita National Forest, the wilderness is managed by the U.S...


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    • Wabayuma Peak Wilderness
    • Waldo Lake Wilderness
      Waldo Lake Wilderness
      Waldo Lake Wilderness is a wilderness area surrounding Waldo Lake in the central Oregon Cascades. It is located within the Willamette National Forest...

    • Wambaw Creek Wilderness
    • Wambaw Swamp Wilderness
    • Warm Springs Wilderness
      Warm Springs Wilderness
      The Warm Springs Wilderness makes up the entirety of the Black Mesa and parts of the surrounding foothills, washes, alluvial fans, and valleys. The Black Mesa is the southernmost section of the Black Mountains of western Mohave County, in northwest Arizona...

    • Warren Island Wilderness
    • Washakie Wilderness
      Washakie Wilderness
      The Washakie Wilderness is located in Shoshone National Forest in the U.S. state of Wyoming.U.S. Wilderness Areas do not allow motorized or mechanized vehicles, including bicycles. Although camping and fishing are allowed with proper permit, no roads or buildings are constructed and there is also...

    • Washington Islands Wilderness
      Washington Islands Wilderness
      Washington Islands Wilderness is a protected area consisting of more than 600 islands, rocks, and reefs belonging to the three Washington Islands National Wildlife Refuges in Washington state...

    • Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness
    • Weepah Spring Wilderness
      Weepah Spring Wilderness
      Weepah Spring Wilderness is a wilderness area in Lincoln and Nye Counties, in the U.S. state of Nevada. The Wilderness lies approximately south of the town of Alamo and is administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management....

    • Welcome Creek Wilderness
      Welcome Creek Wilderness
      The Welcome Creek Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Montana. Created by an act of Congress in 1978, the wilderness is within Lolo National Forest, and protects the northern portion of the Sapphire Mountains....

    • Wellsville Mountain Wilderness
    • Weminuche Wilderness
      Weminuche Wilderness
      The Weminuche Wilderness is a wilderness area in southwest Colorado managed by the United States Forest Service as part of the San Juan National Forest on the west side of the Continental Divide and the Rio Grande National Forest on the east side of the divide. It is about 5 miles south east of...

    • Wenaha–Tucannon Wilderness
  • West Chichagof-Yakobi Wilderness
    West Chichagof-Yakobi Wilderness
    West Chichagof-Yakobi Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness. It encompasses in Southeastern Alaska, in the United States. It includes Yakobi Island, the entire western side of Chichagof Island, as well as the many small island systems along their coasts.The wilderness was created...

  • West Clear Creek Wilderness
    West Clear Creek Wilderness
    The West Clear Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. West Clear Creek is formed by the junction of Willow Creek and Clover Creek in the Mogollon Rim, which is part of the Colorado Plateau; the Mogollon Rim is the major part of the Arizona transition zone at the...

  • West Elk Wilderness
    West Elk Wilderness
    The West Elk Wilderness is a U.S. Wilderness Area located northwest of Gunnison, Colorado in the Gunnison national forest....

  • West Malpais Wilderness
  • West Sister Island Wilderness
  • Wet Beaver Wilderness
    Wet Beaver Wilderness
    Wet Beaver Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona.Wet Beaver Creek is a perennial stream with one major tributary, Dry Beaver Creek. The confluence of the two is at McGuireville, Arizona...

  • Wheeler Peak Wilderness
    Wheeler Peak Wilderness
    The Wheeler Peak Wilderness lies in the Carson National Forest of New Mexico. It contains the highest point in the state, Wheeler Peak.-History:...

  • Whipple Mountains Wilderness
    Whipple Mountains Wilderness
    The Whipple Mountains Wilderness is a wilderness administered by the Bureau of Land Management . Most of the Whipple Mountains are within the wilderness area. It is located in the northeastern Colorado Desert near the Colorado River. Lake Havasu and Lake Havasu City are to the south . Earp,...

  • Whisker Lake Wilderness
  • White Canyon Wilderness
  • White Mountain Wilderness
    White Mountain Wilderness
    The White Mountain Wilderness is a protected wilderness area within the Lincoln National Forest, Smokey Bear Ranger District. The White Mountain Wilderness is located in the Sierra Blanca Mountains of south central New Mexico, approximately north northwest of the town of Ruidoso.-History:The...

     (New Mexico)
  • White Mountains Wilderness (California)
  • White Pine Range Wilderness
    White Pine Range Wilderness
    The White Pine Range Wilderness is a wilderness area in southwestern White Pine County, in the U.S. state of Nevada.-Geography:The Wilderness lies within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and is therefore administered by the U.S...

  • White Rock Range Wilderness
  • Wichita Mountains Wilderness
  • Wild River Wilderness
  • Wild Rogue Wilderness
    Wild Rogue Wilderness
    The Wild Rogue Wilderness is a wilderness area surrounding the eighty-four mile Wild and Scenic portion of the Rogue River in southwestern Oregon, U.S. to protect the watershed. The Wilderness was established in 1987 and now comprises...

  • Wild Sky Wilderness
    Wild Sky Wilderness
    The Wild Sky Wilderness is a wilderness area in the western Cascade Range of Washington state. The wilderness is within the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest north of the U.S. Highway 2 towns of Index and Skykomish. The wilderness flanks, but does not include, the North Fork Skykomish River...

  • William O. Douglas Wilderness
    William O. Douglas Wilderness
    The William O. Douglas Wilderness is a designated wilderness located in central portion of the U.S. state of Washington. It includes 168,232 acres located between the U.S. Route 12 and State Route 410 and is jointly administered by the Snoqualmie National Forest and the Gifford Pinchot National...

  • Winegar Hole Wilderness
    Winegar Hole Wilderness
    The Winegar Hole Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Wyoming. Designated wilderness by Congress in 1984, the wilderness is within Caribou-Targhee National Forest and borders Yellowstone National Park. The wilderness was created to further protect what is considered to be prime Grizzly Bear...

  • Wisconsin Islands Wilderness
  • Withington Wilderness
  • Wolf Island Wilderness
  • Wonder Mountain Wilderness
    Wonder Mountain Wilderness
    Wonder Mountain Wilderness is a designated wilderness area encompassing Wonder Mountain in the Olympic National Forest on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington in the United States. The wilderness was established in 1984 and comprises . It borders Olympic National Park and is administered by the US...

  • Woodchute Wilderness
  • Woolsey Peak Wilderness
  • Worthington Mountains Wilderness
  • Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness
    Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness
    Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness is a wilderness area in Alaska, United States. At , it is the largest designated U.S. Wilderness Area, and lies within Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park and Preserve, the largest national park in the United States...


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    • Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness
      Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness
      The Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located west of Red Bluff in the state of California. Created by the Wilderness Act of 1964, the land area was originally ....

    • Yosemite Wilderness
  • Yuki Wilderness
  • Zion Wilderness
    Zion Wilderness
    Zion Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Utah. Designated March 30, 2009 as part of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, Zion Wilderness is found within the boundaries of Zion National Park and is managed by the National Park Service...


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