Arizona Wildernesses

Cabeza Prieta Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 12
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=90
Wilderness | Cabeza Prieta Wilderness
State | AZ
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Date of Last Update | 2/26/2019
WID | 90
Abbreviated Name | Cabeza_Prieta
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CabezaPrieta.jpg
Acreage | 803418
Description | Cabeza Prieta Wilderness has the distinction of being Arizona's largest Wilderness Area, encompassing nearly 93 percent of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge. Cabeza Prieta Wilderness spans across...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 90FWS
Designated | 1990
ORIG_FID | 27643

Redfield Canyon Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 32
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=490
Wilderness | Redfield Canyon Wilderness
State | AZ
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Date of Last Update | 2/26/2019
WID | 490
Abbreviated Name | Redfield_Canyon
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/RedfieldCanyon.jpg
Acreage | 6600
Description | A narrow red-walled chasm, boulder-strewn Redfield Canyon lies bound by tall cliffs pocked with eroded caves. With a bit of exploration you may find cascades and deep refreshing pools hidden in side-canyons....
Agency | BLM
joinerID | 490BLM
Designated | 1990
ORIG_FID | 28420

Galiuro Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 33
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=196
Wilderness | Galiuro Wilderness
State | AZ
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Date of Last Update | 2/26/2019
WID | 196
Abbreviated Name | Galiuro
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Galiuro.jpg
Acreage | 77585
Description | The precipitous, rocky, and brushy Galiuro Mountains rise abruptly in block-like uplifts from the almost flat desert plains. Nineteen miles in length and six miles in width (on average), they are almost...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 196FS
Designated | 1964
ORIG_FID | 28421

New Water Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | New Water Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | New_Water_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/newwater.jpg
Description | Despite its name, this land of colorful craggy spires, sharp ridges, sheer rock outcrops, natural arches, and slickrock canyons receives less than five inches of rainfall annually, so you should pack in...
Agency | BLM
joinerID | 407BLM

Kofa Wilderness
Wilderness | Kofa Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Kofa
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Kofa.jpg
Description | In the early part of the 1900s the King of Arizona (KofA) Mine scoured this land for precious mineral deposits. Today, in a twist of fate, the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge and subsequently Kofa Wilderness...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 299FWS

Rincon Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Rincon Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Rincon_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/RinconMountains.jpg
Description | Wrapping around three sides of Saguaro National Park just east of Tucson, this sharply rising, mountainous Wilderness serves to further protect and preserve the Park's odd and sometimes all-too-human-shaped...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 496FS

Organ Pipe Cactus Wilderness
Wilderness | Organ Pipe Cactus Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Organ_Pipe_Cactus
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/OrganPipeCactus.jpg
Description | Located at the heart of the vast and lush Sonoran Desert, Organ Pipe Cactus Wilderness hugs the Mexican border and celebrates a desert full of life: 550 species of vascular plants, 53 species of mammals...
Agency | NPS
joinerID | 431NPS

Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area
Wilderness | Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area
Comment | <Null>
Abbreviated Name | PetrifiedForest
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/petrified.jpg
Description | About 218 million years ago this area was a vast floodplain crossed by many streams. Tall, stately, pine-like trees grew here, sheltering a myriad of reptiles. When the trees fell, they washed into the...
Agency | NPS
joinerID | 454NPS

Chiricahua National Monument Wilderness
Wilderness | Chiricahua National Monument Wilderness
Comment | <Null>
Abbreviated Name | Chiricahua_National_Monument
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Description | About 27 million years ago the Turkey Creek volcano, in the heart of the Chiricahua Mountains, spewed forth more than 100 cubic miles of white-hot ash and pumice that settled, fused, and cooled into a...
Agency | NPS
joinerID | 119NPS

Havasu Wilderness
Wilderness | Havasu Wilderness
State | AZ/CA
Abbreviated Name | Havasu
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Havasu.jpg
Description | The Havasu Wilderness lies within the Havasu National Wildlife Refuge which stretches along the Colorado River for 30 miles between Needles, California and Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Approximately one-third...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 233FWS

Saguaro Wilderness
Wilderness | Saguaro Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Saguaro
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Saguaro.jpg
Description | Sprouting in the shade of another desert plant, the saguaro cactus grows only a few inches in its first five years of life and a few feet in its first 30 years. At age 75 the cactus stands 15 to 20 feet...

Santa Teresa Wilderness
Wilderness | Santa Teresa Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Santa_Teresa
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SantaTeresa.jpg
Description | Looking for an extraordinary desert mountain Wilderness experience? Then head to the Santa Teresa Mountains, but be forewarned: the going's not easy. Between Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness and the San Carlos...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 533FS

North Santa Teresa Wilderness
Wilderness | North Santa Teresa Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | North_Santa_Teresa
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NorthSantaTeresa.jpg
Description | Just south of and sharing a border with the San Carlos Indian Reservation, North Santa Teresa Wilderness preserves Black Rock, a geologic landmark of special spiritual significance to many Native Americans....
Agency | BLM
joinerID | 424BLM

Trigo Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Trigo Mountain Wilderness
Comment | <Null>
Abbreviated Name | Trigo_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/TrigoMountain.jpg
Description | You're practically in another state in Trigo Mountains Wilderness; the Golden State to be precise. Only a thin strip of Imperial National Wildlife Refuge along the lower Colorado River separates this Wilderness...

Mount Logan Wilderness
Wilderness | Mount Logan Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mount_Logan
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/mount_logan.jpg
Description | Geologically speaking, Mount Logan was an active volcanic area until only recently. Today, this spot in northwestern Arizona is sort of a local secret, not appearing on many maps. Just south of Mount Trumbull...

Hassayampa River Canyon Wilderness
Wilderness | Hassayampa River Canyon Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Hassayampa_River_Canyon
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/HassayampaRiverCanyon.jpg
Description | The Hassayampa River flows freely for several miles along the southern and eastern portions of this Wilderness, supporting a riparian habitat. The area reaches a high point on Sam Powell Peak at 4,015...

Fishhooks Wilderness
Wilderness | Fishhooks Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Fishhooks
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/fishhooks.jpg
Description | Sharing a long northeastern border with San Carlos Indian Reservation, Fishhooks Wilderness is a haven of solitude in an isolated and seldom visited region of Arizona. Ruggedly beautiful with grand vistas...

Gibraltar Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Gibraltar Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Gibraltar_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/gibralt.jpg
Description | On the western edge of the Buckskin Mountains where they flatten toward the lower Colorado River, Gibralter Mountain rises only 1,568 feet above sea level, a raggedy mass of volcanic rock cut by many deep...

Aubrey Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Aubrey Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Aubrey_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NoPicture.gif
Description | A large cliff-encircled mesa, Aubrey Peak dominates the middle of the eastern half of this Wilderness, which ranges in elevation from approximately 1,600’ to 3,000’. It is a land of stark geologic...

East Cactus Plain Wilderness
Wilderness | East Cactus Plain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | East_Cactus_Plain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/EastCactusPlain.jpg
Description | An immense desert with an intricate crescent-dune topography, the East Cactus Plain Wilderness is a land of shifting sands interspersed with more stable structures. This Wilderness encompasses the eastern...

Sierra Estrella Wilderness
Wilderness | Sierra Estrella Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sierra_Estrella
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SierraEstrella.jpg
Description | The Sierra Estrella Wilderness, which includes roughly one-fourth of the Sierra Estrella Mountains, is 15 miles south of the metropolitan Phoenix and east of Rainbow Valley, Arizona. Bordered entirely...

Hells Canyon Wilderness
Wilderness | Hells Canyon Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Hells_Canyon_AZ
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NoPicture.gif
Description | A scenic portion of the Hieroglyphic Mountain Range, Hells Canyon Wilderness is home to numerous peaks which encircle and isolate Burro Flats from the rest of the world. These peaks rise from 1,877 to...

Wabayuma Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Wabayuma Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Wabayuma_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WabayumaPeak.jpg
Description | Located in the Hualapai Mountains, 7,601-foot Wabayuma Peak towers over this Wilderness of massive ridges. Extending out from the peak in a semicircle to the north, south, and west, the ridges plunge almost...

Coyote Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Coyote Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Coyote_Mountains_AZ
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CoyoteMountains_AZ.jpg
Description | Coyote Mountains Wilderness is a detached mountain adjacent to the Baboquivari Mountain Range. The Wilderness contains several massive rounded bluffs, sheer cliff faces, and large open canyons. Common...

Hummingbird Springs Wilderness
Wilderness | Hummingbird Springs Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Hummingbird_Springs
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/HummingbirdSprings.jpg
Description | Northeast of Hummingbird Springs, which sits near the middle of this wilderness, Sugarloaf Mountain climbs steeply from the Tonopah Desert (1,550 feet) to 3,418 feet and lends this area remarkable scenic...

Big Horn Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Big Horn Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Big_Horn_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BigHornMountains-AZ .jpg
Description | Big Horn Peak emerges 1,800 feet above a desert plain, near the middle of this wilderness, which ranges from 1,400 to 3,500 feet in elevation. Neighboring escarpments add to this area's exceptional scenic...

Mount Wilson Wilderness
Wilderness | Mount Wilson Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mount_Wilson
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MountWilson.jpg
Description | Only 30 miles from Las Vegas, Nevada, Mount Wilson Wilderness encompasses eight miles of Wilson Ridge which rise from nearly 2,000 feet in the eastern portion of the Wilderness to its summit on Mount Wilson...

Needle's Eye Wilderness
Wilderness | Needle's Eye Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Needles_Eye
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NeedlesEye.jpg
Description | The Mescal Mountains cut across the middle of this Wilderness, their southwestern flank forming a spectacular striped slope of Paleozoic limestone that looms more than 2,500 feet high. The Gila River flows...

Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Harcuvar_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/HarcuvarMountains.jpg
Description | This desert encompasses over 10 miles of the Harcuvar Mountains' ridgeline, from an elevation of 2,400 feet on the bajadas to more than 5,100 feet on the mountainous crest. Plant and animal communities...

White Canyon Wilderness
Wilderness | White Canyon Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | White_Canyon
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WhiteCanyon.jpg
Description | Intricately carved and scenically splendid White Canyon runs north-south through the middle of this Wilderness. Narrow in places, this canyon's walls rise as much as 800 feet above the bottom. Throughout...

Eagletail Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Eagletail Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Eagletail_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/eagletail.jpg
Description | Fifteen miles of the Eagletail Mountains' rough ridgeline runs right through the northern section of this Wilderness, including 3,300-foot Eagletail Peak which rises from a low point of 1,100 feet within...

Rawhide Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Rawhide Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Rawhide_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/rawhide.jpg
Description | Just beyond Alamo Dam, the Bill Williams River cuts through this Wilderness, dividing two mountain ranges, the Rawhides to the north and the Buckskins to the south. For more than five miles the river traverses...

Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Baboquivari_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Baboquivari.jpg
Description | On Arizona's smallest designated Wilderness, Baboquivari Peak rises sharply to dominate the scenic desert terrain of the east side of the Baboquivari Range, near the Mexican border. On the western side...

Swansea Wilderness
Wilderness | Swansea Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Swansea
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Swansea.jpg
Description | A six-mile stretch of the Bill Williams River, rarely seen by humans, cuts a deep gorge through the center of Swansea Wilderness which ranges from 670 to 1,900 feet. The river flows into the south end...

Table Top Wilderness
Wilderness | Table Top Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Table_Top
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/TableTop.jpg
Description | The Table Top Wilderness is dominated by Table Top Mountain (4,373-feet in elevation), which abruptly rises above the nearly level Vekol Valley. Lower summits and ridges are covered with talus slopes of...

Signal Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Signal Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Signal_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SignalMountain.jpg
Description | A thin four-wheel-drive road is all that separates Signal Mountain Wilderness from Woolsey Peak Wilderness to the south. Signal Mountain itself, rising just north of the center of the area, reaches a summit...

Grand Wash Cliffs Wilderness
Wilderness | Grand Wash Cliffs Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Grand_Wash_Cliffs
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/grand_wash_cliffs.jpg
Description | You won't find the Colorado River, the force of nature that eons ago carved the Grand Wash Cliffs of Arizona, anywhere near the cliffs themselves. Today the Colorado flows about 20 miles to the south...

Harquahala Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Harquahala Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Harquahala_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/HarquahalaMountains.jpg
Description | In the language of an early native tribe, Harquahala translates to “running water high up.” This elevated region, set on one of western Arizona's largest desert ranges, was so named for its numerous...

Mount Nutt Wilderness
Wilderness | Mount Nutt Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mount_Nutt
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MountNutt.jpg
Description | At 5,216 feet, Mount Nutt presides over a colorful and wild terrain encompassing eight miles of the central and highest portion of the Black Mountains. Along the main ridgeline you'll find prominent mesas...

Peloncillo Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Peloncillo Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Peloncillo_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PeloncilloMountains.jpg
Description | Ragged and rugged, the Peloncillo Mountains stretch north from Mexico to the Gila River and New Mexico is just across the border from this wilderness. The historic Butter-field Stage Route forms the southern...

Muggins Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Muggins Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Muggins_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MugginsMountain.jpg
Description | Close to the California border stands a cluster of rugged peaks at the western extreme of the Muggins Mountains, a region of colorful geologic strata and scenic landforms. Within Muggins Mountain Wilderness...

Dos Cabezas Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Dos Cabezas Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Dos_Cabezas_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/DosCabezasMountains.jpg
Description | Sculpted with steep slopes and granite outcroppings, the rugged and remote Dos Cabezas Mountains rise in elevation from 4,080 feet to 7,587 feet on Government Peak, in the southeast corner. Seasonal waterfalls...

South Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | South Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | South_Maricopa_Mountains
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Description | The South Maricopa Mountains Wilderness consists of a series of rocky, isolated summits and long ridges dissected by normally dry ephemeral drainages (or "washes") and separated by desert outwash slopes...

Cottonwood Point Wilderness
Wilderness | Cottonwood Point Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Cottonwood_Point
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CottonwoodPoint.jpg
Description | On a map, this piñon, juniper, and sagebrush covered wilderness looks like two small "peninsulas" divided by Cottonwood Canyon. Extending south from the Arizona-Utah border, the land rises to 6,322 feet...

Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness
Wilderness | Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Aravaipa_Canyon
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/AravaipaCanyon.jpg
Description | Narrow and twisting Aravaipa Canyon is a picturesque example of the Southwest’s desert country. Aravaipa Creek, shaded by cottonwoods, has cut a trough up to 1,000 feet deep in the Galiuro Mountains...

Mount Tipton Wilderness
Wilderness | Mount Tipton Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mount_Tipton
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MountTipton.jpg
Description | This Wilderness contains the entire northern half of the imposing Cerbat Mountains. Although 7,148-foot Mount Tipton dominates the area (the lowest point in the Wilderness being about 3,300 feet), the...

Mount Trumbull Wilderness
Wilderness | Mount Trumbull Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mount_Trumbull
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/mount_trumbull.jpg
Description | Just north of the Grand Canyon and Mount Logan Wilderness, located at the southern end of the Uinkaret Plateau, Mount Trumbull is a large, basalt-capped mesa rising from about 5,400 feet to 8,028 feet....

North Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | North Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | North_Maricopa_Mountains
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Description | The North Maricopa Mountains Wilderness consists of a series of rocky, isolated summits, long ridges, and vast, level valley floors. The ridges are dissected by normally dry washes and separated by desert...

Paiute Wilderness
Wilderness | Paiute Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Paiute
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/paiute.jpg
Description | This wilderness area consists of the Piute Mountains and the surrounding bajadas and extensive flat aprons of alluvium. The elevations within the Wilderness range from 2,000 to 4,132 feet. The Piute Mountains...

Warm Springs Wilderness
Wilderness | Warm Springs Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Warm_Springs
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NoPicture.gif
Description | Dominating this immense, pristine desert landscape near the California border is Black Mesa, 10 miles long and 1,000 feet above the surrounding desert, with edges dissected into a maze of winding canyons....

Woolsey Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Woolsey Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Woolsey_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Woolsey.jpg
Description | Woolsey Peak Wilderness offers rugged topgraphy, colorful scenic vistas, rich variety of wildlife and vegetation, and outstanding opportunities for solitude and unconfined recreation. Woolsey Peak stands...

Tres Alamos Wilderness
Wilderness | Tres Alamos Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Tres_Alamos
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/tresAlamos.jpg
Description | Columns of colorful stone are the most striking landscape features of Tres Alamos, a Wilderness in the southern Black Mountains. The landscape rises from about 2,300 feet and tops out at Sawyer Peak (4,293...

Arrastra Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Arrastra Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Arrastra_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/ArrastraMountain.jpg
Description | Wild and remote, difficult to access, this sprawling Wilderness preserves imposing landscapes and vividly colorful geologic features. The Poachie Range runs northwest-southeast through the north-central...

Upper Burro Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Upper Burro Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Upper_Burro_Creek
Description | Upper Burro Creek is one of the few perennial streams to flow undammed into the lower desert of Arizona. Thirteen miles of the creek pass through this Wilderness, which is divided into eastern and western...

Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
Wilderness | Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
State | AZ/UT
Abbreviated Name | Paria_Canyon_Vermilion_Cliffs
Description | This colorful Wilderness snakes through northern Arizona, northeast along the gorgeous Vermilion Cliffs and swings northwest along the not-to-be-missed Paria Canyon before eventually leading into Utah...

Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
State | AZ/UT
Abbreviated Name | Beaver_Dam_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BeaverDamMountains.jpg
Description | The jagged mountains and gently sloping alluvial plain of Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness straddle the Arizona-Utah border. Management of the Wilderness is shared by the BLM in both states. It is further...

Apache Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Apache Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Apache_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/apache_creek.jpg
Description | Remote, and relatively rugged, Apache Creek Wilderness offers rolling hills of juniper and pinion pine interspersed with outcroppings of granite boulders and ponderosa pine. Time. wind, and water have...

Bear Wallow Wilderness
Wilderness | Bear Wallow Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Bear_Wallow
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/bear_wallow.jpg
Description | The Bear Wallow Wilderness was the origin point of, the Wallow Fire of June 2011, the largest wildfire in Arizona history. Though much of the area was affected by the fire, much of the wilderness experienced...

Castle Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Castle Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Castle_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CastleCreek.jpg
Description | On the stark eastern slopes of the Bradshaw Mountains, Castle Creek Wilderness stands between Phoenix and Flagstaff, easily accessible from both. Extremely rugged topography rises to granite peaks that...

Cedar Bench Wilderness
Wilderness | Cedar Bench Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Cedar_Bench
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CedarBench.jpg
Description | Cedar Bench falls along a broad northwest-southeast trending ridge or "bench," and from this elevated perch visitors can glimpse stunning views of the desert's vivid colors. The Wilderness occupies the...

Chiricahua Wilderness
Wilderness | Chiricahua Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Chiricahua
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Chiricahua.jpg
Description | More than a century ago the Chiricahua Apache Tribe called the Chiricahua Mountains their own. From here the Apache defended their homeland by launching surprise attacks on U.S. Army troops and pioneer...

Escudilla Wilderness
Wilderness | Escudilla Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Escudilla
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/escudilla.jpg
Description | As naturalist and author Aldo Leopold had observed in the A Sand County Almanac essay entitled "Escudilla" broad, towering, Escudilla Mountain is visible from just about anywhere in eastern Arizona and...

Fossil Springs Wilderness
Wilderness | Fossil Springs Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Fossil_Springs
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/FossilSprings.jpg
Description | "Where there is water, there is life," the saying goes, and Fossil Springs proves it's true every day of the year. At the bottom of a steep and wide canyon, at the edge of the Colorado Plateau just south...

Four Peaks Wilderness
Wilderness | Four Peaks Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Four_Peaks
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/FourPeaks.jpg
Description | Rising from desert foothills near the center of the Wilderness, a major mountain with four peaks can be seen from great distances in all directions. From the craggy summits the land drops down a complex...

Granite Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Granite Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Granite_Mountain_AZ
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/GraniteMountains-AZ.jpg
Description | Ragged boulders, some as big as a house, stack on top of each other to an elevation of 7,626 feet in Granite Mountain Wilderness, an area about eight miles away from Prescott. From the summit of Granite...

Hellsgate Wilderness
Wilderness | Hellsgate Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Hellsgate
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Hellsgate.jpg
Description | Lying at the base of the Mogollon Rim, upper Tonto Creek has incised a 1,000-foot-deep canyon that runs entirely through the center of this Wilderness. A perennial waterway, Tonto Creek creates deep emerald...

Juniper Mesa Wilderness
Wilderness | Juniper Mesa Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Juniper_Mesa
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/juniper_mesa.jpg
Description | Juniper Mesa is located in the southern Juniper Mountains on the northwest half of the Prescott National Forest. It is about 1 hour north of the city of Prescott. The views from the mesa top to the south...

Kachina Peaks Wilderness
Wilderness | Kachina Peaks Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Kachina_Peaks
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/KachinaPeak.jpg
Description | Rising to truly majestic summits, Kachina Peaks Wilderness area boasts 12,643-foot Humphrey's Peak, the highest point in Arizona. The Wilderness is part of a large and heavily vegetated composite volcano...

Kendrick Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Kendrick Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Kendrick_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/kendrick_mtn.jpg
Description | Kendrick Mountain Wilderness encompasses Kendrick Peak, one of the highest peaks in the vast San Francisco volcanic field located on the Coconino Plateau in north-central Arizona. Reaching an elevation...

Miller Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Miller Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Miller_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MillerPeak.jpg
Description | The Miller Peak Wilderness lies between the city of Sierra Vista and the Mexican border in the southern half of the Huachuca Mountains. The Arizona Trail traverses this wilderness before reaching its...

Mt. Wrightson Wilderness
Wilderness | Mt. Wrightson Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mt_Wrightson
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MtWrightson.jpg
Description | Rising a magnificent 7,000 feet from the desert floor, 9,452-foot-high Mount Wrightson is visible from great distances. At the core of the Santa Rita Mountains, this Wilderness has rough hillsides, deep...

Munds Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Munds Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Munds_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MundsMountain.jpg
Description | Arizona is well known for its red-rock formations, conjuring up images of magnificent crimson outcroppings set against azure skies. Munds Mountain Wilderness is home to many of these ruggedly beautiful...

Mount Baldy Wilderness
Wilderness | Mount Baldy Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mount_Baldy
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MountBaldy.jpg
Description | Captain George Wheeler, who surveyed much of the American Southwest in the 1870s, wrote that the view from Mount Baldy was "the most magnificent and effective of any among the large number that have come...

Mazatzal Wilderness
Wilderness | Mazatzal Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mazatzal
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/mazatzal.jpg
Description | In the language of the Aztecs mazatzal means "an area inhabited by deer," but just how the word reached Arizona, or what significance it holds, remains somewhat of a mystery. Yes, deer inhabit the area....

Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Red_Rock_Secret_Mountain
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Description | Tan, buff, and predominantly red-rock cliffs mark the edge of the Colorado Plateau across this Wilderness, just east of Sycamore Canyon Wilderness. Here the high mesas of Secret Mountain and Wilson Mountain...

Pajarita Wilderness
Wilderness | Pajarita Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Pajarita
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Description | Attention, botany lovers: you should not miss this little Wilderness. More than 660 species of plants have been identified within its borders, 17 of them found nowhere else on Earth. Botanists have called...

Pine Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Pine Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Pine_Mountain
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Description | At 6,814 feet, Pine Mountain is the highest point on the Verde River Rim, which slashes across this area from northeast to southwest. On the mountain's southeastern side the unmistakable steep and rocky...

Pusch Ridge Wilderness
Wilderness | Pusch Ridge Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Pusch_Ridge
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Description | Pusch Ridge rises from the desert floor to over 9,000 feet above sea level, affording a clear view over the sprawling metropolis of Tucson. More and more people are climbing Pusch Ridge to take in that...

Superstition Wilderness
Wilderness | Superstition Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Superstition
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Description | Although there is no guarantee that you'll find buried treasure, you are sure to discover miles and miles of desolate and barren mountains, seemingly endless and haunting canyons, raging summer temperatures...

Sycamore Canyon Wilderness
Wilderness | Sycamore Canyon Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sycamore_Canyon
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Description | This sprawling Arizona Wilderness encompasses all of Sycamore Canyon, from its pine- and fir-forested rim on the Colorado Plateau down through the Mogollon Rim to its desert mouth in the Verde Valley....

Saddle Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Saddle Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Saddle_Mountain
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Description | Straddling the eastern edge of the Kaibab Plateau the Saddle Mountain Wilderness is a rugged land of narrow drainage bottoms and steep scarps (a line of cliffs produced by faulting or erosion). The gentle...

Salt River Canyon Wilderness
Wilderness | Salt River Canyon Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Salt_River_Canyon
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SaltRiverCanyon.jpg
Description | Many describe the vista where U.S. 60 crosses the Salt River Canyon as the most dramatic in Arizona. Here the highway descends 2,000 feet of steep switchbacks, crosses a bridge, and ascends the opposite...

Sierra Ancha Wilderness
Wilderness | Sierra Ancha Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sierra_Ancha
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Description | Centuries ago the Salado Indians built and lived in cliff dwellings in this region, and the ruins of many of them still stand today. An "original" Arizona Wilderness, Sierra Ancha was established as a...

Strawberry Crater Wilderness
Wilderness | Strawberry Crater Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Strawberry_Crater
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/StrawberryCrater.jpg
Description | Part of the huge San Francisco volcanic field, Strawberry Crater is one of its roughly 600 craters and cones, all 50,000 to 100,000 years old. The crater once sent lava flowing across the northwestern...

West Clear Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | West Clear Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | West_Clear_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WestClearCreek.jpg
Description | Despite the fact that the Wilderness is only one-half mile to two miles wide, the canyon offers wonderful opportunities for solitude. As for beauty, serenity, and complexity, the hiking is rarely exceeded...

Woodchute Wilderness
Wilderness | Woodchute Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Woodchute
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Description | An easily accessible Wilderness, Woodchute offers spectacular views of the San Francisco Peaks and panoramic vistas of the Verde Valley, as well as the red rocks of Sedona and Sycamore Canyon. Historically...

Salome Wilderness
Wilderness | Salome Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Salome
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Description | If you hike rough and lonesome Salome Canyon, the major canyon that runs almost the entire length of this Wilderness, you probably won't encounter another human being. However, you may see remnants of...

Wet Beaver Wilderness
Wilderness | Wet Beaver Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Wet_Beaver
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/wet_beaver.jpg
Description | Winding on a serpentine course through the rim of the Colorado Plateau, Wet Beaver Creek twists through a steep-walled canyon of Supai sandstone and shale. Beyond lovely red cliffs in the lower section...

Kanab Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Kanab Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Kanab_Creek
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Description | One of the major tributaries of the Colorado River, Kanab Creek is the largest tributary canyon system on the north side of the Grand Canyon. From its origin about 50 miles north in southern Utah, Kanab...

Imperial Refuge Wilderness
Wilderness | Imperial Refuge Wilderness
State | AZ/CA
Abbreviated Name | Imperial_Refuge
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/ImperialRefuge.jpg
Description | You might be surprised to find a lush river ecosystem in the midst of the Sonoran Desert, the hottest and driest in the United States, a land of prickly cacti and specially adapted plants and animals....