Idaho Wildernesses

Craters of the Moon National Wilderness Area
OBJECTID_1 | 43
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=142
Wilderness | Craters of the Moon National Wilderness Area
State | ID
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 3/30/2019
WID | 142
Abbreviated Name | Craters_of_the_Moon
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CratersoftheMoon.jpg
Acreage | 43243
Description | Between 15,000 and 2,100 years ago, repeated volcanic eruptions along the Great Rift spilled huge amounts of basalt lava across the Snake River Plain in south central Idaho. After the molten rock cooled...
Agency | NPS
joinerID | 142NPS
Designated | 1970
ORIG_FID | 31416

Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 91
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=194
Wilderness | Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness
State | ID
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Date of Last Update | 2/28/2019
WID | 194
Abbreviated Name | Frank_Church_River_of_No_Return
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Acreage | 802
Description | Few places in America, and nowhere outside of Alaska, provide a Wilderness experience to match the sheer magnitude of the Frank Church-River of No Return, the largest contiguous unit of the National Wilderness...
Agency | BLM
joinerID | 194BLM
Designated | 1980
ORIG_FID | 40797

Hells Canyon Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 92
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=239
Wilderness | Hells Canyon Wilderness
State | ID/OR
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Date of Last Update | 2/26/2019
WID | 239
Abbreviated Name | Hells_Canyon_IDOR
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Acreage | 946
Description | Hells Canyon Wilderness is a subset of the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area (HCNRA), which straddles the border of northeastern Oregon and western Idaho. Split into two distinct halves by the Wild...
Agency | BLM
joinerID | 239BLM
Designated | 1984
ORIG_FID | 40800

Cecil D. Andrus-White Clouds Wilderness
Wilderness | Cecil D. Andrus-White Clouds Wilderness
State | ID
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Abbreviated Name | White_Clouds
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WhiteClouds.jpg
Description | To the west stretches the Sawtooth Valley where the jagged peaks of the Sawtooth Wilderness form the skyline. Across the Salmon River to the north lies the iconic Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 764FS

Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness
Wilderness | Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Frank_Church_River_of_No_Return
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Description | Few places in America, and nowhere outside of Alaska, provide a Wilderness experience to match the sheer magnitude of the Frank Church-River of No Return, the largest contiguous unit of the National Wilderness...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 194FS

Little Jacks Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Little Jacks Creek Wilderness
Comment | <Null>
Abbreviated Name | Little_Jacks_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/LittleJacksCreek.jpg
Description | The Little Jacks Creek Wilderness includes a basalt dome covered by sagebrush and grass. Elevations range form 3,500 to nearly 5,900 feet in this Wilderness and magnificent 1,000-foot canyons tower over...
Agency | BLM
joinerID | 730BLM

Bruneau-Jarbidge Rivers Wilderness
Wilderness | Bruneau-Jarbidge Rivers Wilderness
Comment | <Null>
Abbreviated Name | Bruneau_Jarbidge_Rivers
Description | The Jarbidge-Bruneau Rivers Wilderness has some of the best class V whitewater that Idaho has to offer. The Jarbidge River offers a remote and challenging 29-mile float trip taking boaters through a maze...

Big Jacks Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Big Jacks Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Big_Jacks_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BigJacksCreek.jpg
Description | The Big Jacks Creek Wilderness, in the Big Jacks Creek Basin, consists of rugged canyons, streams and plateaus that provide habitat for redband trout, mountain quail and bighorn sheep, as well as two sensitive...

Pole Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Pole Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Pole_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PoleCreek.jpg
Description | The landscape within the Pole Creek Wilderness, in the southwest part of Idaho near the Oregon border, is diverse, ranging from river canyons over a thousand feet deep to vast expanses of sagebrush and...

North Fork Owyhee Wilderness
Wilderness | North Fork Owyhee Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | North_Fork_Owyhee
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NorthForkOwyhee.jpg
Description | The landscape within the North Fork Owyhee Wilderness, in the southwest part of Idaho near the Oregon border, is diverse, ranging from river canyons over a thousand feet deep to vast expanses of sagebrush...

Owyhee River Wilderness
Wilderness | Owyhee River Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Owyhee_River
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/OwyheeRiver.jpg
Description | The Owyhee River Wilderness is centered on the Owyhee River and its tributaries, in the southwest part of Idaho near the Oregon border. It is a land defined by rivers, cutting steep canyons out of high...

Cecil D. Andrus-White Clouds Wilderness
Wilderness | Cecil D. Andrus-White Clouds Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | White_Clouds
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WhiteClouds.jpg
Description | To the west stretches the Sawtooth Valley where the jagged peaks of the Sawtooth Wilderness form the skyline. Across the Salmon River to the north lies the iconic Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness...

Hells Canyon Wilderness
Wilderness | Hells Canyon Wilderness
State | ID/OR
Abbreviated Name | Hells_Canyon_IDOR
Description | Hells Canyon Wilderness is a subset of the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area (HCNRA), which straddles the border of northeastern Oregon and western Idaho. Split into two distinct halves by the Wild...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 239FS

Jim McClure-Jerry Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Jim McClure-Jerry Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Jim_McClure_Jerry_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/JimMcClureJerryPeak.jpg
Description | Located in the Salmon River Mountains, the Jim McClure-Jerry Peak Wilderness is a diverse area ranging from sagebrush steppe ecosystems, to north-facing mid-elevations dominated by Douglas fir, and elevations...

Gospel-Hump Wilderness
Wilderness | Gospel-Hump Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Gospel_Hump
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/GospelHump.jpg
Description | Long before explorers Lewis and Clark first laid eyes on this region in 1805, Nez Perce Indians were hunting the elk, deer, and black bears whose descendants still roam here. Discovery of gold in the 1860s...

Hemingway-Boulders Wilderness
Wilderness | Hemingway-Boulders Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Hemingway_Boulders
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/HemingwayBoulders.jpg
Description | The Boulder Mountains, one of Idaho's highest and wildest ranges, are rich with human history and home to an abundance of wildlife. Amidst the towering multi-hued peaks you can listen for the howl of wolves...

Sawtooth Wilderness
Wilderness | Sawtooth Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sawtooth
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Sawtooth.jpg
Description | The Sawtooth Mountains have long been recognized for their exceptional beauty and wild qualities. As the name suggests, this spectacular wilderness is comprised of hundreds of jagged peaks, 42 over 10,000...

Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
Wilderness | Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
State | ID/MT
Abbreviated Name | Selway_Bitterroot
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SelwayBitterroot.jpg
Description | The Bitterroot Mountains form a rugged, glacier-carved border between Idaho and Montana. On both sides of this border is the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, the third largest Wilderness in the Lower 48....