California Wildernesses

Lava Beds Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 4
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=313
Wilderness | Lava Beds Wilderness
State | CA
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 3/30/2019
WID | 313
Abbreviated Name | Lava_Beds
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/lava_beds.gif
Acreage | 28460
Description | A million years of volcanic turmoil produced the ragged and seemingly inhospitable landscape of Lava Beds Wilderness, located in the Lava Bed National Monument. Despite this, even the youngest cinder cones—hardly...
Agency | NPS
joinerID | 313NPS
Designated | 1972
ORIG_FID | 11424

White Mountains Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 13
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=754
Wilderness | White Mountains Wilderness
State | CA
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Date of Last Update | 2/26/2019
WID | 754
Abbreviated Name | White_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WhiteMountains.jpg
Acreage | 206804
Description | The White Mountains Wilderness was designated through the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009. The wilderness contains Cottonwood Creek, which was designated a Wild and Scenic River at the same...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 754FS
Designated | 2009
ORIG_FID | 28133

Agua Tibia Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 14
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=3
Wilderness | Agua Tibia Wilderness
State | CA
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Date of Last Update | 3/4/2019
WID | 3
Abbreviated Name | Agua_Tibia
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/AguaTibia.jpg
Acreage | 539
Description | The steep, chaparral-covered mountains of Agua Tibia Wilderness give way to stands of fir, pine, and oak at higher elevations that rise above 4,400 feet on Agua Tibia Mountain. Elevation ranges from 1,700...
Agency | BLM
joinerID | 3BLM
Designated | 2009
ORIG_FID | 28321

Domeland Wilderness
Wilderness | Domeland Wilderness
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Abbreviated Name | Domeland
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Domeland.jpg
Description | Extremely rugged country with sparse vegetation, the original Domeland Wilderness was known for its many granite domes and unique geological formations. Additions were made in 1984, primarily on the north...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 162FS

Domeland Wilderness
Wilderness | Domeland Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Domeland
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Domeland.jpg
Description | Extremely rugged country with sparse vegetation, the original Domeland Wilderness was known for its many granite domes and unique geological formations. Additions were made in 1984, primarily on the north...
Agency | BLM
joinerID | 162BLM

Kiavah Wilderness
Wilderness | Kiavah Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Kiavah
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Kiavah.jpg
Description | Embracing the eroded hills, canyons, and bajadas of the Scodie Mountains--the southernmost reach of the Sierra Nevada--Kiavah Wilderness lies primarily within Sequoia National Forest but includes a portion...
Agency | BLM
joinerID | 294BLM

Kiavah Wilderness
Wilderness | Kiavah Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Kiavah
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Kiavah.jpg
Description | Embracing the eroded hills, canyons, and bajadas of the Scodie Mountains--the southernmost reach of the Sierra Nevada--Kiavah Wilderness lies primarily within Sequoia National Forest but includes a portion...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 294FS

Santa Rosa Wilderness
Wilderness | Santa Rosa Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Santa_Rosa
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SantaRosa.jpg
Description | The stark Colorado Desert, with its agave, ocotillo, and creosote, rises up boulder-strewn and eroded canyons to chaparral, juniper, and pine-covered ridges. Elevations change drastically from just above...

Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness
Wilderness | Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Yolla_Bolly_Middle_Eel
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/YollaBollyMiddleEel.jpg
Description | Located between the North and South Yolla Bolly Mountains in the as-rugged-as-it-comes headwater country of the Wild and Scenic Middle Fork of the Eel River, Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness ranges in...

Yuki Wilderness
Wilderness | Yuki Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Yuki
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Yuki.jpg
Description | The ancient forests of the Yuki Wilderness consist of ponderosa pine, Douglas fir, Shasta red fir, white fir, and incense cedar. The region also hosts seven species of oak, an unusually high number for...

Caribou Wilderness
Wilderness | Caribou Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Caribou
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Caribou.jpg
Description | Reminders of the volcanic and glacial origin of the Caribou Wilderness can be seen throughout this forested plateau. The forest is composed predominantly of lodgepole pine sprinkled with a mixture of Jeffrey...

Pinto Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Pinto Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Pinto_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NoPicture.gif
Description | The Pinto Mountains Wilderness is located on Bureau of Land Management lands on the Joshua Tree National Park's northern boundary. The rugged Pinto Mountains rise sharply up from the northern edge of the...

John Krebs Wilderness
Wilderness | John Krebs Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | John_Krebs
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/JohnKrebs.jpg
Description | The John Krebs Wilderness is named after John Hans Krebs, a former congressman (1975-1978) who fought to protect the lush hills, forests and steep granite peaks that make up the Mineral King Valley. It...
Agency | NPS
joinerID | 728NPS

Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness
Wilderness | Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sequoia_Kings_Canyon
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SequoiaKingsCanyon.jpg
Description | Sequoia National Park, America's second oldest park, was eventually joined with Kings Canyon National Park to form an area described only with multiple superlatives, a parkland of which everything off...
Agency | NPS
joinerID | 543NPS

Hain Wilderness
Wilderness | Hain Wilderness
Comment | <Null>
Abbreviated Name | Hain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Pinnacles.jpg
Description | Eons of wind and water, heat and frost produced the starkly angular crags and spires of today's Hain Wilderness. Situated within Pinnacles National Park, Hain Wilderness, previously called the Pinnacles...

Darwin Falls Wilderness
Wilderness | Darwin Falls Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Darwin_Falls
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/DarwinFalls.jpg
Description | Carved into numerous shallow depressions and canyons and holding a variety of stark volcanic rock faces, the Darwin Plateau stands guard in the northern portion of this Wilderness. In the south, Darwin...

Bristol Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Bristol Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Bristol_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BristolMountains.jpg
Description | The Bristol Mountains Wilderness contains the tilted and bisected old volcanic plain called Old Dad Mountains and the northern portion of the Bristol Mountains which climb as high as 3,874 feet. The broad...

Kelso Dunes Wilderness
Wilderness | Kelso Dunes Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Kelso_Dunes
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/KelsoDunes.jpg
Description | The Kelso Dunes Wilderness derives its name from the large sand dunes complex located outside of its eastern boundary in the Mojave National Preserve. From the flat Broadwell dry lake bed in the west...

Mojave Wilderness
Wilderness | Mojave Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mojave
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Mojave.jpg
Description | The East Mojave National Scenic Area was established in 1980. It's a vast piece of land shaped roughly like a wedge of pie, covering most of the ground from the California-Nevada state line west almost...

White Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | White Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | White_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WhiteMountains.jpg
Description | The White Mountains Wilderness was designated through the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009. The wilderness contains Cottonwood Creek, which was designated a Wild and Scenic River at the same...

Joshua Tree Wilderness
Wilderness | Joshua Tree Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Joshua_Tree
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/JoshuaTree.jpg
Description | The California Desert Protection Act of 1994 transformed Joshua Tree National Monument into a national park and expanded the wilderness. The additions thrust north into the Pinto Mountains, northeast into...

Ventana Wilderness
Wilderness | Ventana Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Ventana
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Ventana.jpg
Description | Legend relates that the unique notch at the summit of Ventana Double Cone (4,853 feet) was once connected by a rock bridge forming a window, or ventana in Spanish. First established as a Primitive area...

Machesna Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Machesna Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Machesna_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MachesnaMountain.jpg
Description | From a low point of about 1,600 feet, this Wilderness climbs to the 4,063-foot summit of Machesna Mountain in the southwest section. This is a scenic area, with the scenery getting finer the higher you...

Bighorn Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Bighorn Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Bighorn_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BighornMountain.jpg
Description | The north-central portion of this Wilderness area holds the rugged Bighorn Mountains and the eastern foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains. It presents a rare transition zone between the yucca- and...

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

Chemehuevi Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Chemehuevi Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Chemehuevi_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/ChemehueviMountains.jpg
Description | The wilderness area encompasses the rugged granitic Chemehuevi Mountains. The mountain range is horseshoe-shaped, with the open end facing eastward toward the Colorado River. Contained within the arms...

Lassen Volcanic Wilderness
Wilderness | Lassen Volcanic Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Lassen_Volcanic
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/LassenVolcanic.jpg
Description | In May of 1914, Lassen Peak began a seven-year series of eruptions including a humdinger in 1915 when an enormous mushroom cloud reached seven miles in height. Today, the Lassen Volcanic National Park...

Agua Tibia Wilderness
Wilderness | Agua Tibia Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Agua_Tibia
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/AguaTibia.jpg
Description | The steep, chaparral-covered mountains of Agua Tibia Wilderness give way to stands of fir, pine, and oak at higher elevations that rise above 4,400 feet on Agua Tibia Mountain. Elevation ranges from 1,700...

Emigrant Wilderness
Wilderness | Emigrant Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Emigrant
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Emigrant.jpg
Description | The Emigrant Wilderness is located on the upper western slope of the central Sierra Nevada Mountain Range and is contiguous with the Yosemite Wilderness to it's south, the Carson-Iceberg Wilderness just...

Yosemite Wilderness
Wilderness | Yosemite Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Yosemite
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Yosemite.jpg
Description | Established in 1890, Yosemite National Park ranks among the first in the National Park System. Surrounded entirely by national forest in the heart of the Sierra Nevada, fabulous granite faces, domes, and...

Hoover Wilderness
Wilderness | Hoover Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Hoover
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Hoover.jpg
Description | First established as a Primitive area in 1931, then a Wild area in 1957, the Hoover Wilderness was one of the original members of the NWPS. Here is an extremely rugged and magnificently scenic area in...

Ansel Adams Wilderness
Wilderness | Ansel Adams Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Ansel_Adams
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/AnselAdams.jpg
Description | This wilderness was originally established as the Minarets Wilderness in 1964. These "minarets", a jagged ridge of peaks known as the Ritter Range, are considered to be the one of the most spectacular...

Phillip Burton Wilderness
Wilderness | Phillip Burton Wilderness
Comment | <Null>
Abbreviated Name | Phillip_Burton
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PhillipBurton.jpg
Description | The Point Reyes Peninsula used to lie a couple hundred miles farther south before the San Andreas Fault decided to shift it to its current location. Unruffled by this forced eviction, the Point Reyes National...

Farallon Wilderness
Wilderness | Farallon Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Farallon
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/farrallon.jpg
Description | Some of these "little pointed islets in the sea," as they were once fittingly described, were established as the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge in 1909, but the Southeast Farallons were not added until...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 181FWS

Inyo Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Inyo Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Inyo_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/InyoMountains.jpg
Description | The north-south Inyo Mountains comprise a high and vast desert range, and the isolated and pristine Wilderness that bears their name encompasses a large portion of this sheerly rugged terrain. The area...

San Gorgonio Wilderness
Wilderness | San Gorgonio Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | San_Gorgonio
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SanGorgonio.jpg
Description | San Gorgonio Mountain was originally known as "Old Grayback" by locals until officially designated by the US Geological Survey (from the Spanish heritage) on the original topographical map of the area...

Surprise Canyon Wilderness
Wilderness | Surprise Canyon Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Surprise_Canyon
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SurpriseCanyon.jpg
Description | Surprise Canyon Wilderness shares its entire eastern border with Death Valley National Park. It contains small alluvial slopes that gradually rise from the west into the jagged ridges and steep sides of...

Stateline Wilderness
Wilderness | Stateline Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Stateline
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/stateline.jpg
Description | The small but pristine Stateline Wilderness contains the eastern terminus of the 15 mile long Clark Mountain Range. The limestone/dolomite mountains are steep and rugged. Dominant vegetation includes creosote...

Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sawtooth_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SawtoothMountains.jpg
Description | Ridges extend like fingers from the Laguna Mountains east to become Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness, with elevations from 5,600 feet down to 1,400 feet. Valleys between the ridges unfold to become the desert...

Palen/McCoy Wilderness
Wilderness | Palen/McCoy Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Palen_McCoy
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PalenMcCoy.jpg
Description | Within the Palen-McCoy Wilderness lie five distinct desert mountain ranges: the Palen, McCoy, Granite, Little Maria, and Arica. They are separated from each other by broad, sloping bajadas, and don't receive...

Sacatar Trail Wilderness
Wilderness | Sacatar Trail Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sacatar_Trail
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SacatarTrail.jpg
Description | The Sacatar Trail, an old wagon road and one of the few reminders that humans ever traveled regularly through this area, provides relatively easy access into this rugged and pristine Wilderness on the...

Clipper Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Clipper Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Clipper_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/ClipperMountains.jpg
Description | The Clipper Mountain Wilderness encompasses rugged yellow and dark brown, horizontally striped mesas; narrow canyons with hidden springs; and sparsely vegetated alluvial fans. The small cluster of volcanic...

Granite Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Granite Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Granite_Mountain_CA
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/GraniteMountainsCA.jpg
Description | A geologically varied landscape of open alluvial basins, basaltic plateaus and granite ridges, the Granite Mountain Wilderness is an excellent Great Basin addition to the National Wilderness Preservation...

Cache Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Cache Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Cache_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CacheCreek.jpg
Description | The Cache Creek Wilderness is centered on a 17-mile stretch of Cache Creek, flowing from Clear Lake in eastern Lake County. The prominent feature within the wilderness is Cache Creek, which runs east towards...

Orocopia Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Orocopia Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Orocopia_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/OrocopiaMountains.jpg
Description | Immediately to the east of Mecca Hills Wilderness, you'll find Orocopia Mountains Wilderness, where the unpredictable forces of nature--primarily the San Andreas Fault--have created a striking landscape...

Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Chuckwalla_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/ChuckwallaMountains.jpg
Description | Just southeast of Joshua Tree National Park, the Chuckwalla Mountains rise like an island in a sea of sand and stone, a fascinating rock fortress of seemingly endless landforms, geologic textures, and...

Ishi Wilderness
Wilderness | Ishi Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Ishi
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Ishi.jpg
Description | The Yahi Yana Indians lived in this region for over 3,000 years before white settlers arrived around 1850 and promptly exterminated all but the handful who escaped into the harsh and remote canyons of...

Bright Star Wilderness
Wilderness | Bright Star Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Bright_Star
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BrightStar.jpg
Description | Bright Star Canyon encloses Kelso Creek and leaves Sequoia National Forest to cross the southern portion of the Bureau of Land Management's Bright Star Wilderness. In the northwestern portion, Cortez Canyon...

Rice Valley Wilderness
Wilderness | Rice Valley Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Rice_Valley
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NoPicture.gif
Description | The northwestern tip of the Big Maria Mountains, rising to about 2,000 feet above sea level, gives way to the broad, flat plains of Rice Valley within this Wilderness. Rice Valley is the southern end of...

Chimney Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Chimney Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Chimney_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/ChimneyPeak.jpg
Description | Chimney Peak Wilderness encompasses rocky mountainous terrain dominated by the pinyon pine forest and sagebrush of the Southeastern Sierra. The area is bounded by the primitive Chimney Peak Backcountry...

Mecca Hills Wilderness
Wilderness | Mecca Hills Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mecca_Hills
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MeccaHills.jpg
Description | Thanks to the restless San Andreas Fault, the geologic formations of Mecca Hills Wilderness are among the most unusual sites of their kind in the world. Entire regions are exposed layers of eroded rock...

Cedar Roughs Wilderness
Wilderness | Cedar Roughs Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Cedar_Roughs
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CedarRough.jpg
Description | The Cedar Roughs Wilderness, west of Lake Berryessa in Napa County, is a large mound of "serpentine" soil. Serpentine, California's official mineral, is a bluish-green (but sometimes reddish) rock that...

Sylvania Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Sylvania Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sylvania_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NoPicture.gif
Description | The Sylvania Mountains are shared by California and Nevada, and the Wilderness starts on the desert floor and rises eastward over gradually rolling hills to rough and mountainous terrain reaching nearly...

King Range Wilderness
Wilderness | King Range Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | King_Range
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/KingRange.jpg
Description | From beaches to high peaks commanding outstanding vistas, the King Range Wilderness is the wildest portion of the California coast. Indeed, the King Range is the longest stretch of undeveloped coastline...

South Fork Eel River Wilderness
Wilderness | South Fork Eel River Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | South_Fork_Eel_River
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SouthForkEelRiver.jpg
Description | The South Fork Eel River is a principal tributary of the Eel River. The South Fork Eel River Wilderness is comprised of sections of the BLM's Red Mountain and Cahto Peak units. The Red Mountain unit...

North Algodones Dunes Wilderness
Wilderness | North Algodones Dunes Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | North_Algodones_Dunes
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NorthAlgodonesDunes.jpg
Description | Approximately eight miles wide and 40 miles long, the Algodones Sand Dunes system is one of the largest dune complexes in North America. Still, only a relatively small section north of State Highway 78...

Big Maria Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Big Maria Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Big_Maria_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BigMariaMountains.jpg
Description | Gently sloping bajadas, or desert slopes, rise to numerous rough and craggy peaks separated by steep canyons in Big Maria Mountains Wilderness. The Big Marias lie just south of a major drainage called...

Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness
Wilderness | Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Bigelow_Cholla_Garden
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BigelowChollaGarden.jpg
Description | The Biglow Cholla Garden Wilderness lies in the northern end of the Sacramento Mountains. The mountains consist of very dark, highly eroded volcanic rock. Elevations range from 1,400 feet to 3,314 feet...

Pahrump Valley Wilderness
Wilderness | Pahrump Valley Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Pahrump_Valley
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PahrumpValley.jpg
Description | The Pahrump Valley in the north, the Mesquite Valley in the southeast, and the California Valley in the west join forces in this desolate, seldom-visited Wilderness. Alluvial slopes in all three valleys...

Otay Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Otay Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Otay_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/OtayMountain.jpg
Description | The Otay Mountain Wilderness is located near the U.S.-Mexico border in eastern San Diego County. The mountain represents a unique ecosystem, home to twenty sensitive plant and animal species, including...

Beauty Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Beauty Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Beauty_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BeautyMountain.jpg
Description | The Beauty Mountain Wilderness is a chaparral dominated ecosystem. The steep hillsides are overlain with granite boulder outcrops. At 5,548 feet, Beauty Mountain is the central feature to the wilderness....

Elkhorn Ridge Wilderness
Wilderness | Elkhorn Ridge Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Elkhorn_Ridge
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/ElkhornRidge.jpg
Description | The Elkhorn Ridge Wilderness contains rugged Coast Range ridges covered with thick forests of redwood, Douglas-fir, and tan-oak. There are two major forest types encompassing the area; the mixed evergreen...

Black Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Black Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Black_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BlackMountain.jpg
Description | Black Mountain stands at 3,941 feet, a mesa rising above an expanse of desolate, ancient lava flows. The mountain lies in the northwest corner of the Wilderness, and from the summit, the area drops in...

Carrizo Gorge Wilderness
Wilderness | Carrizo Gorge Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Carrizo_Gorge
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CarrizoGorge.jpg
Description | Some of the most expansive views in the entire California Desert--vistas often extending for more than 100 miles--exist in Carrizo Gorge Wilderness. From overlooks, you can see the Chocolate Mountains...

Cadiz Dunes Wilderness
Wilderness | Cadiz Dunes Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Cadiz_Dunes
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CadizDunes.jpg
Description | The Cadiz Dunes Wilderness encompasses the majority of the Cadiz Dunes, and some of the lands immediately surrounding them. The dunes were formed by north winds blowing sands off the Cadiz Dry Lake. The...

Owens Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Owens Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Owens_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/owens_peak.jpg
Description | Owens Peak, the highest point in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains at more than 8,400 feet, stands near the center of Owens Peak Wilderness. It presides over mountainous terrain with deep, winding canyons...

Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness
Wilderness | Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Cleghorn_Lakes
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CleghornLakes.jpg
Description | The Cleghorns are dry lakes plunked near the middle of Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness, an area of remarkably different resources. The eastern portion rises into the rugged Bullion Mountains, while the western...

Coso Range Wilderness
Wilderness | Coso Range Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Coso_Range
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CosoRange.jpg
Description | Encompassing the northern section of the Cosa Range, this Wilderness preserves an area of extensive erosion revealing outstanding displays of volcanic formations and numerous valleys and washes. From high...

El Paso Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | El Paso Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | El_Paso_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/ElPasoMountains.jpg
Description | The El Paso Mountains drop into this Wilderness from the southeast, with Black Mountain, at 5,244 feet, serving as the highest point. From the foot of Black Mountain, the terrain sinks into the Black Hills...

Grass Valley Wilderness
Wilderness | Grass Valley Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Grass_Valley
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/GrassValley.jpg
Description | The expansive Grass Valley covers nearly three-fourths of this Wilderness and ranks as its primary topographical feature. The area lies fairly flat, with a series of scattered hills, yellow to reddish...

Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Fish_Creek_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/FishCreekMountains.jpg
Description | From the desert floor, the Fish Creek Mountains resemble a plateau rising as a great wall; only a few dramatic peaks appear from a distance. In truth, the mountains are a rugged land of numerous jagged...

Coyote Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Coyote Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Coyote_Mountains_CA
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CoyoteMountains139.jpg
Description | The fishhook-shaped Coyote Mountains cover about 40 percent of this austere Wilderness, a desertland of low ridges and washes capped by the forbidding Carrizo Badlands to the north. Carrizo Mountain (734...

Dead Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Dead Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Dead_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/DeadMountains.jpg
Description | This area encompasses the jagged, steep, rust-colored Dead Mountains and the alluvial fans sweeping to the west towards Piute Valley and east towards the Colorado River. Centered in the northern half of...

Malpais Mesa Wilderness
Wilderness | Malpais Mesa Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Malpais_Mesa
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MalpaisMesa.jpg
Description | The long, north-south oval of Malpais Mesa (2,300 feet) stands dominant in the middle of this Wilderness area perched at the southern end of the Inyo Mountains. Rugged valleys, deep canyons, sheer mountainsides...

Newberry Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Newberry Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Newberry_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NewberryMountains.jpg
Description | Rugged and volcanic in origin, the Newberry Mountains rise with relative gentleness toward rather broad and flat tops with elevations ranging from 2,200 feet in the north to 5,100 feet in the south. Deep...

Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Little_Chuckwalla_Mountains
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Description | Dry, desolate, and rugged, the Little Chuckwalla Mountains, cresting at 2,100 feet, are surrounded by a large, gently sloping bajada incised by a network of washes. In the north part of the Wilderness...

Resting Spring Range Wilderness
Wilderness | Resting Spring Range Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Resting_Spring_Range
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/RestingSpringRange.jpg
Description | Between Death Valley National Park and the Nevada state line, the Resting Spring Range sweeps up from vast bajadas across rolling hills to a picturesque north-south spine--a line of extremely coarse and...

South Nopah Range Wilderness
Wilderness | South Nopah Range Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | South_Nopah_Range
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SouthNopahRange.jpg
Description | Easily rolling alluvial slopes (bajadas) from the east and west sweep gently up to the south end of the rugged folds of the Nopah Mountain Range in the South Nopah Range Wilderness. Shaded with soft colors...

North Mesquite Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | North Mesquite Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | North_Mesquite_Mountains
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Description | The North Mesquite Mountains Wilderness consists of the broad western end of Sandy Valley and the northern portion of Mesquite Mountains. Rolling brown foothills, a few steeper mountains, and medium sized...

Jacumba Wilderness
Wilderness | Jacumba Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Jacumba
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Jacumba.jpg
Description | On the eastern flank of California's coastal peninsular ranges, the Jacumba Mountains often appear as a fantastic jumble of granitic rock pushed up by faults in long-gone days. The mountains extend into...

Piper Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Piper Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Piper_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PiperMountain.jpg
Description | The Piper, Sylvania, and Inyo Mountains meet in Piper Mountain Wilderness. Alluvial fans cover large portions of the eastern side of the area. Wide, barren plains and dry hills form much of the landscape....

Picacho Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Picacho Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Picacho_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PicachoPeak.jpg
Description | Dark gray, massive mountains extending southeast from Indian Pass make up the central and western portions of the diminutive Picacho Peak Wilderness. Mica Peak stands near the center of this range, the...

Riverside Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Riverside Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Riverside_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/RiversideMountains.jpg
Description | With an eastern boundary that runs roughly parallel to the Colorado River, Riverside Mountains Wilderness varies from gently sloping bajadas to a rugged interior with numerous peaks and a craggy skyline....

Mesquite Wilderness
Wilderness | Mesquite Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mesquite
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Mesquite.jpg
Description | The Mesquite Wilderness consists of portions of the Mesquite Mountains, Mesquite Valley, and the Clark Mountain Range. The Mesquite Mountains have more gradual rising slopes than the rough and rocky Clark...

Piute Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Piute Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Piute_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PiuteMountains.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...

Sheephole Valley Wilderness
Wilderness | Sheephole Valley Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sheephole_Valley
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SheepholeValley.jpg
Description | The Sheephole Valley Wilderness is a perfect representation of the basin and range topography typical in the Mojave Desert. The area consists of the northwest to southeast trending granitic boulder strewn...

Trilobite Wilderness
Wilderness | Trilobite Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Trilobite
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/trilobite.jpg
Description | The Trilobite Wilderness covers the Marble Mountains, a narrow volcanic range extending 12 miles in a northwest-southwest direction. Alternating dark brown and light brown striations have been tilted by...

Turtle Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Turtle Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Turtle_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/TurtleMountains.jpg
Description | The Turtle Mountains Wilderness encompasses a diverse, scenic landscape. The area ranges from broad bajadas to highly eroded volcanic peaks, spires, and cliffs. The colorful Turtle Mountains vary from...

Whipple Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Whipple Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Whipple_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/whippleMountains.jpg
Description | The large east-west oriented Whipple Mountains comprise the dominant land form within this Wilderness. A low angle fault separates the pale green formations of the western side from the striking brick-red...

Little Picacho Wilderness
Wilderness | Little Picacho Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Little_Picacho
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/LittlePicacho.jpg
Description | Within the southern portion of the Chocolate Mountains, with elevations ranging from 200 feet to 1,500 feet, the Little Picacho Wilderness is characterized by dramatic jutting spires and steep ridges....

Rodman Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Rodman Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Rodman_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/RodmanMountains.jpg
Description | Colorful escarpments, white mountains splotched with red and black, a maze of canyons, and majestic bajadas come together in Rodman Mountains Wilderness. From northwest to southeast across the middle of...

Old Woman Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Old Woman Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Old_Woman_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/OldWomanMountains.jpg
Description | This Wilderness area consists of bajadas; extensive flat aprons of alluvium; and the massive, fault-lifted Old Woman Mountains that extend some 35 miles north-south and up to 28 miles in an east-west direction....

Stepladder Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Stepladder Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Stepladder_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/StepladderMountains.jpg
Description | Unique to the Stepladder Mountains Wilderness is the extensive critical desert tortoise habitat that it protects. The western portion of the area consists of the relatively low, elongated volcanic Stepladder...

Nopah Range Wilderness
Wilderness | Nopah Range Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Nopah_Range
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NopahRange.jpg
Description | Nopah Range Wilderness contains a good chunk of the Nopah Range in its eastern portion and a piece of the Resting Spring Range in its west. These ranges embody dramatic geologic landscapes, separated by...

Rocks and Islands Wilderness
Wilderness | Rocks and Islands Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Rocks_and_Islands
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/RocksAndIslands.jpg
Description | The California coastal Rocks and Islands Wilderness protects critical components of a unique area of California coastline. Although one of the smallest wildernesses in the system, it encompasses 584 rocks...

Santa Lucia Wilderness
Wilderness | Santa Lucia Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Santa_Lucia
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SantaLucia.jpg
Description | A stream that flows yearlong through Lopez Canyon into Lopez Lake, lush streamside vegetation, and chaparral-covered slopes and peaks that rise above the canyon are the prime ingredients in the lightly...

Saddle Peak Hills Wilderness
Wilderness | Saddle Peak Hills Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Saddle_Peak_Hills
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SaddlePeakHills.jpg
Description | Smallest of the areas designated by the California Desert Protection Act of 1994, this Wilderness includes the northern end of the Saddle Peak Hills and the northwestern portion of the Silurian Valley....

Funeral Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Funeral Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Funeral_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/FuneralMountains.jpg
Description | Despite the dreary name, rugged and cheerfully colorful limestone lies in striking bands across Funeral Mountains Wilderness. From the southeast and Nevada, the long alluvial slopes of the Amargosa Desert...

Manly Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Manly Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Manly_Peak
Description | Quietly isolated, Manly Peak stands at 7,196 feet on the boundary between Death Valley National Park and Manly Peak Wilderness. The Wilderness is comprised entirely of jagged ridges and deep canyons within...

Argus Range Wilderness
Wilderness | Argus Range Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Argus_Range
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/ArgusRange.jpg
Description | Nestling in the Argus Range, a thin and narrow north-south mountain chain, this Wilderness stretches for 28 miles along the west side of the Panamint Valley, just south and west of Death Valley National...

Ibex Wilderness
Wilderness | Ibex Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Ibex
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/ibex.jpg
Description | A portion of the Ibex Hills and parts of the Dublin Hills and Black Mountains are preserved in this Wilderness. The Ibex Hills form a craggy, north-south divide between the alluvial slopes of Greenwater...

Death Valley Wilderness
Wilderness | Death Valley Wilderness
State | CA/NV
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Abbreviated Name | Death_Valley
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/DeathValley.jpg
Description | Death Valley National Park is the lowest and possibly hottest and driest spot in North America. The 134 degrees recorded on July 10, 1913 is the highest temperature recorded on the planet. The park is...

Kingston Range Wilderness
Wilderness | Kingston Range Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Kingston_Range
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/KingstonRange.jpg
Description | The Kingston Range Wilderness is divided into three units by non-wilderness corridors or 'cherrystems': Sperry Wash and Kingston Wash. The Amargosa Unit's (the northern unit) most striking feature is Amargosa...

Golden Valley Wilderness
Wilderness | Golden Valley Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Golden_Valley
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/GoldenValley.jpg
Description | The Lava Mountains span the northwestern portion of Golden Valley Wilderness, cresting to almost 5,000 feet on Dome Mountain. The Lavas are sliced by several steep-walled canyons arrayed in distinctive...

Milpitas Wash Wilderness
Wilderness | Milpitas Wash Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Milpitas_Wash
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MilpitasWash.jpg
Description | The Milpitas Wash Wilderness is near the southern end of the Mule Mountains and the Opal Hill Mine. The landscape is primarily desert mountain foothills as well as wash and floodplain habitats. Visitors...

Soda Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Soda Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Soda_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SodaMountains.jpg
Description | This scenic, horseshoe-shaped range includes the terminus of the great Mojave. Creosote, barrel cacti, cholla, and yuccas can be found along with the unique Crucifixion thorn. Two intermittent lakes, East...

Great Falls Basin Wilderness
Wilderness | Great Falls Basin Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Great_Falls_Basin
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/GreatFallsBasin.jpg
Description | A perennial spring supplies the water flowing through a short distance in the Great Falls Basin Wilderness, and that reach has cut a narrow and deep slot in the bedrock forming several falls. The steep...

Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Palo_Verde_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PaloVerdeMountains.jpg
Description | In the heart of the relatively jagged Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness, twin buttes called the Flat Tops stand out prominently. The highest point in the area, Palo Verde Peak, rises to about 1,800 feet...

Buzzards Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Buzzards Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Buzzards_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BuzzardsPeak.jpg
Description | The geologically rich soils of the Buzzards Peak Wilderness create landscapes of rich chocolate brown, yellows, reds, and blues. This area is an important part of the traditional homeland of the Quechan...

Monarch Wilderness
Wilderness | Monarch Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Monarch
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Monarch.jpg
Description | At the southern end of John Muir Wilderness, on the western border of Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park, Monarch Wilderness amply lives up to its regal name. Few areas of the United States can boast such...

Jennie Lakes Wilderness
Wilderness | Jennie Lakes Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Jennie_Lakes
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/JennieLakes.jpg
Description | Three rugged and rocky mountain peaks, including the 10,365-foot Mitchell Peak, stands above a diverse mixture of seasonal ponds, perennial streams, lush meadows, and coniferous forests. In Jennie Lakes...

Avawatz Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Avawatz Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | AvawatzMountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/AvawatzMountains.jpg
Description | Rising to more than 6,100 feet above the Silurian Valley, the Avawatz Mountains form a commanding backdrop of colorful eroded slopes, rugged ridges, and steep, narrow canyons. The name "Avawatz" is derived...

Indian Pass Wilderness
Wilderness | Indian Pass Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Indian_Pass
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/IndianPass.jpg
Description | Jagged peaks and spires are incised by mazes of twisting canyons in a distinctive part of the Chocolate Mountains preserved as Indian Pass Wilderness. Desert cloudbursts pour water down the canyons into...

Hollow Hills Wilderness
Wilderness | Hollow Hills Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Hollow_Hills
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/HollowHills.jpg
Description | Hollow Hills is characterized by a large and gentle bajada that slopes east to west toward Silver Lake, a dry lake that lies just outside the Wilderness' southwest boundary. The bajada is interspersed...

Cucamonga Wilderness
Wilderness | Cucamonga Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Cucamonga
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/cucamonga.jpg
Description | The name "Cucamonga" was derived from an old Spanish rancheria nearby. The meaning has been variously interpreted as "sandy place" or "place of many springs." That may describe the rancheria, but not...

Desolation Wilderness
Wilderness | Desolation Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Desolation
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Desolation.jpg
Description | The Desolation Wilderness, encompassing 63,475 acres of rugged alpine terrain, is a spectacular area of subalpine and alpine forests, jagged granitic peaks, and glacially formed valleys and lake basins....

Dick Smith Wilderness
Wilderness | Dick Smith Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Dick_Smith
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/DickSmith.jpg
Description | Dick Smith--writer, artist, photographer--was deeply devoted to preservation of the wild and was called by some the "conscience of Santa Barbara." The Wilderness that bears his name is an area of extremely...

Dinkey Lakes Wilderness
Wilderness | Dinkey Lakes Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Dinkey_Lakes
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/DinkeyLakes.jpg
Description | Here on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, timbered, rolling terrain dominates most of Dinkey Lakes Wilderness. Almost all of it sits above 8,000 feet, with Three Sisters Peak soaring 10,619 feet...

Bucks Lake Wilderness
Wilderness | Bucks Lake Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Bucks_Lake
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BucksLake.jpg
Description | Bordered by Bucks Lake on the south, this relatively small area boasts a broad diversity of vegetation (brush fields, conifers, oaks, pure stands of red fir) and topography (bare rocky slopes, cliffs...

Cahuilla Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Cahuilla Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Cahuilla_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CahuillaMountain.jpg
Description | The Cahuilla Mountain Wilderness offers spectacular views of the historic Juan Bautista de Anza Trail, soaring peaks, and the vast desert landscape. Its chaparral covered slopes and forested mountaintop...

Carson-Iceberg Wilderness
Wilderness | Carson-Iceberg Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Carson_Iceberg
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CarsonIceberg.jpg
Description | This Wilderness straddles California's Sierra Nevada Crest, divided between Humboldt - Toiyabe and Stanislaus National Forests. Here you'll find spectacular high country, with 12 peaks rising above 10,000...

Chanchelulla Wilderness
Wilderness | Chanchelulla Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Chanchelulla
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Chanchelulla.jpg
Description | Chanchelulla Peak stands at 6,399 feet, the highest point in Chanchelulla Wilderness, a steeply rugged area with slopes angling as much as 70 degrees. The southern slopes are primarily covered in dense...

Chumash Wilderness
Wilderness | Chumash Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Chumash
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/chumash.jpg
Description | The terrain of Chumash Wilderness drops toward the southwest from Mt Pinos, 8831 elevation, (the highest peak on the Los Padres NF). Conifers populate the higher elevations of the Wilderness and lead down...

Garcia Wilderness
Wilderness | Garcia Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Garcia
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Garcia.jpg
Description | Garcia Wilderness preserves the long east-west ridge of Garcia Mountain and separates Santa Lucia and Machesna Mountain Wildernesses. Here you'll find rugged, chaparral-cloaked slopes and oak woodlands...

Granite Chief Wilderness
Wilderness | Granite Chief Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Granite_Chief
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/granitechief.jpg
Description | Located at the headwaters of the American River, the Granite Chief was designated a Wilderness area because of its pristine nature, natural beauty, and potential to provide primitive, non-motorized recreation...

Hauser Wilderness
Wilderness | Hauser Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Hauser
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/hauser.jpg
Description | California's southernmost Wilderness on National Forest System lands consists of mountainous terrain with steep slopes dotted by granite boulders and rocky outcroppings. Chaparral and coastal sage rule...

Kaiser Wilderness
Wilderness | Kaiser Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Kaiser
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/kaiser.jpg
Description | Kaiser Ridge divides this Wilderness into two distinctly different areas. The southern portion rises gradually from near the crowded north shore of Huntington Lake under stands of Jeffrey pine and red...

Mt. Shasta Wilderness
Wilderness | Mt. Shasta Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mt_Shasta
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MtShasta.jpg
Description | Even first-time visitors to the area have no trouble identifying Mount Shasta. Dominating the landscape for several hundred miles in all directions, the mountain looms 14,179 feet, a beautiful snow-cloaked...

Mokelumne Wilderness
Wilderness | Mokelumne Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mokelumne
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/mokelumne.jpg
Description | The Mokelumne River bisects remote mountainous terrain where elevations range from about 4,000 feet near Salt Springs Reservoir outside the southwest corner to over 10,000 feet on Round Top Peak in the...

Mount Lassic Wilderness
Wilderness | Mount Lassic Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mount_Lassic
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MountLassic.jpg
Description | The Mount Lassic Wilderness, located approximately 20 miles northeast of Garberville and 8 miles west of Ruth Reservoir in Humboldt and Trinity counties, is a picturesque cluster of peaks offering impressive...

Magic Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Magic Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Magic_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MagicMountain.jpg
Description | The Magic Mountain Wilderness' chaparral covered hillsides and oak-studded canyons provide scenic vistas and recreational opportunities for the rapidly urbanizing Santa Clarita Valley. The Magic Mountain...

Marble Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Marble Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Marble_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MarbleMountain.jpg
Description | Craggy peaks, abundant meadows, large streams, and a whopping 89 lakes highlight this wild and pleasant area. Adding to the visual interest are many fascinating geological features, including Marble Mountain...

Matilija Wilderness
Wilderness | Matilija Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Matilija
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Matilija.jpg
Description | Steep and brushy, overgrown with alder and maple in the canyons with a few stands of conifers in the higher country, the Matilija Wilderness includes the scenic canyons of Matilija Creek, as well as its...

Red Buttes Wilderness
Wilderness | Red Buttes Wilderness
State | CA/OR
Abbreviated Name | Red_Buttes
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/RedButtes.jpg
Description | Red Buttes Wilderness straddles the crest of the Siskiyou Mountains (i.e., the rugged Applegate River/Klamath River divide), but has far more acreage in California than in Oregon. The twin summits of Red...

North Fork Wilderness
Wilderness | North Fork Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | North_Fork
Description | Designated Wild and Scenic, the thin ribbon of the Eel River's North Fork flows through the middle of this Wilderness and through a spectacular gorge lined with mixed conifers in its upper region and an...

Owens River Headwaters Wilderness
Wilderness | Owens River Headwaters Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Owens_River_Headwaters
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/OwensRiverHeadwaters.jpg
Description | The Owens River Headwaters Wilderness was designated through President Obama's signing of the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act on March 31, 2009. This 14,721 acre wilderness protects the headwaters...

Pine Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Pine Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Pine_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PineCreek.jpg
Description | Gently sloping from about 2,000 feet elevation in the south to 4,000 feet in the north, Pine Creek and its numerous tributaries drain this Wilderness in a north-south direction. With the exception of the...

Pleasant View Ridge Wilderness
Wilderness | Pleasant View Ridge Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Pleasant_View_Ridge
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PleasandViewRidge.jpg
Description | Pleasant View Ridge Wilderness, designated in 2009, has a total of 26,757 acres. This wilderness area is located roughly 30 miles northeast of La Canada, north of the Angeles Crest Highway where the San...

Thousand Lakes Wilderness
Wilderness | Thousand Lakes Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Thousand_Lakes
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/thousandlakes.jpg
Description | There may not be a thousand lakes here, but the exaggeration is understandable given the area's seven major bodies of crystalline water and myriad smaller ponds. They are sprinkled throughout an area of...

Trinity Alps Wilderness
Wilderness | Trinity Alps Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Trinity_Alps
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/TrinityAlps.jpg
Description | Formerly known as the Salmon-Trinity Alps Primitive Area, the Trinity Alps Wilderness is located 50 miles west of Redding California. The area contains the Wild and Scenic Trinity River in the south and...

Russian Wilderness
Wilderness | Russian Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Russian
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/russian.jpg
Description | Russian Wilderness sits astride a major ridge dividing the Scott River and Salmon River drainages with steep slopes and broad, U-shaped glacial valleys surrounded by granite peaks. You'll find 22 named...

San Gabriel Wilderness
Wilderness | San Gabriel Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | San_Gabriel
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/sangabriel.jpg
Description | Extremely rugged and scenic terrain ranging in elevation from about 1,600 feet to 8,200 feet predominates in San Gabriel Wilderness. Dense thickets of chaparral in the low country yield to mixed pine-...

San Jacinto Wilderness
Wilderness | San Jacinto Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | San_Jacinto
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SanJacinto.jpg
Description | Unique among designated areas, San Jacinto Wilderness, managed by the USFS, lies split in half by the Mount San Jacinto State Park and Wilderness, which is managed by the California Department of Parks...

San Mateo Canyon Wilderness
Wilderness | San Mateo Canyon Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | San_Mateo_Canyon
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SanMateoCanyon.jpg
Description | Mountains covered with chaparral and coastal sage dominate the landscape of San Mateo Canyon Wilderness. Many deep drainages hide a lush growth of vegetation, with oak woodlands thick in the lower elevations....

San Rafael Wilderness
Wilderness | San Rafael Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | San_Rafael
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/sanrafael.jpg
Description | After the initial preservation of land under the Wilderness Act of 1964, the original San Rafael Wilderness (1968) was the first Primitive area added to the NWPS's roster. Here in the chaparral-covered...

Sanhedrin Wilderness
Wilderness | Sanhedrin Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sanhedrin
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Sanhedrin.jpg
Description | The "Sanhedrin" was the supreme council of the ancient Hebrews. The pioneers who gazed up at this rugged ridge must have been very impressed indeed to have given it such a dignified Biblical name. But...

Sespe Wilderness
Wilderness | Sespe Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sespe
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Sespe.jpg
Description | Sespe Wilderness provides ample evidence of past violent geological upthrusts. The landscape is bleak and jagged, and if you climb high enough, you'll find pine trees growing at odd angles on boulder-swept...

Sheep Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Sheep Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sheep_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SheepMountain.jpg
Description | In 1984, the 44,000 acre Sheep Mountain Wilderness was set aside as one of the Nation's truly unique wild areas. With elevations ranging from 2,400 ft. to over 10,000 ft., this area offers something for...

Silver Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Silver Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Silver_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SilverPeak.jpg
Description | Encompassing the drainages of Willow Creek and Salmon Creek, Silver Peak Wilderness rises sharply from near the shore of the Pacific Ocean, an area of steep terrain that's part of the Santa Lucia Mountains....

Siskiyou Wilderness
Wilderness | Siskiyou Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Siskiyou
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Siskiyou.jpg
Description | Forested ridges and craggy peaks with lower slopes densely covered with brush generally describes Siskiyou Wilderness. You'll also discover fragile mountain meadows, open glades, shallow lakes, and the...

Snow Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Snow Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Snow_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SnowMountain.jpg
Description | Snow Mountain is the southernmost peak in the North Coast Range. In Snow Mountain Wilderness, you'll find the transition zone between the Coast Range and the lower valley foothills. Higher elevations are...

South Fork San Jacinto Wilderness
Wilderness | South Fork San Jacinto Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | South_Fork_San_Jacinto
Description | The South Fork San Jacinto Wilderness contains lush groves of big-cone Douglas fir, willow, and cottonwood. The rich streamside woodlands are a popular hiking destination, and home to mountain lion, mule...

South Sierra Wilderness
Wilderness | South Sierra Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | South_Sierra
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/south_sierra.jpg
Description | With Golden Trout Wilderness on its northern boundary and Domeland Wilderness on its southern (except for the road to Kennedy Meadows), South Sierra Wilderness straddles the crest of the Sierra Nevada...

South Warner Wilderness
Wilderness | South Warner Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | South_Warner
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SouthWarner.jpg
Description | In far north eastern California, you will find the Warner Mountains and the South Warner Wilderness, which stretches about 18 miles long and 8 miles wide. Elevations vary from 4,760 feet at the east boundary...

Castle Crags Wilderness
Wilderness | Castle Crags Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Castle_Crags
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CastleCrags.jpg
Description | Sheer granite cliffs, towering spires reaching up to 7,200 feet and steep canyons hide five small alpine lakes in Castle Crags Wilderness. Indians held these rock formations in awe, rarely if ever, venturing...

John Muir Wilderness
Wilderness | John Muir Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | John_Muir
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/JohnMuir.jpg
Description | In 1889 John Muir described himself as a "self-styled poetico-tramp-geologist-bot. and ornith-natural, etc.!!! ". John Muir spent his life advocating for the protection of the wild parts of the Sierra...

Golden Trout Wilderness
Wilderness | Golden Trout Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Golden_Trout
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/GoldenTrout.jpg
Description | The brightly colored California state fish, the golden trout, lives in relative abundance in the waters of Golden Trout Wilderness, and special restrictions apply to anglers. A large drainage basin surrounded...

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....
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 257FWS