New Mexico Wildernesses

Carlsbad Caverns Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 5
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=100
Wilderness | Carlsbad Caverns Wilderness
State | NM
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 3/30/2019
WID | 100
Abbreviated Name | Carlsbad_Caverns
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/carlsbadCaverns.jpg
Acreage | 33125
Description | With 116 documented caves including the world-famous Carlsbad Cavern and Lechuguilla Cave at over 125 miles in length, Carlsbad Caverns National Park deserves its international reputation. Approximately...
Agency | NPS
joinerID | 100NPS
Designated | 1978
ORIG_FID | 14391

Bandelier Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 44
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=27
Wilderness | Bandelier Wilderness
State | NM
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Date of Last Update | 4/3/2015
WID | 27
Abbreviated Name | Bandelier
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Bandelier.jpg
Acreage | 23267
Description | From the twelfth to the mid-sixteenth centuries, a large population of Ancestral Pueblo people flourished among the cream-and-tan cliffs and piñon-juniper-forested mesas of the slopes of the Jemez Mountains....
Agency | NPS
joinerID | 27NPS
Designated | 1976
ORIG_FID | 33716

Bosque del Apache Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 123
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=66
Wilderness | Bosque del Apache Wilderness
State | NM
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 2/25/2019
WID | 66
Abbreviated Name | Bosque_del_Apache
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BosqueDelApache.jpg
Acreage | 30427
Description | On a quiet day in November you'll hear the haunting cry of sandhill cranes echoing across the marsh and grasslands of 57,191-acre Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Amazing to think that in 1939...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 66FWS
Designated | 1975
ORIG_FID | 41369

Salt Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Salt Creek Wilderness
Comment | <Null>
Abbreviated Name | Salt_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SaltCreek.jpg
Description | Migratory waterfowl may consider this a sufficient winter home, but birders will see it as paradise. From October through February, the seasonal wetlands in and surrounding Salt Creek Wilderness play host...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 517FWS

West Malpais Wilderness
Wilderness | West Malpais Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | West_Malpais
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WestMalpais.jpg
Description | El Malpais is Spanish for "the badlands," a name that perfectly describes this region of New Mexico, where countless volcanic eruptions sent rivers of molten rock and flying cinders over what is now a...
Agency | BLM
joinerID | 642BLM

Cebolla Wilderness
Wilderness | Cebolla Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Cebolla
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Cebolla.jpg
Description | Cebolla Wilderness, part of El Malpais National Conservation Area, lies just across State Highway 117 from West Malpais Wilderness but offers easier traveling than the ominously raw volcanic terrain of...
Agency | BLM
joinerID | 106BLM

Ojito Wilderness
Wilderness | Ojito Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Ojito
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Ojito.jpg
Description | Historically, several human cultures have tried to carve a living from Ojito’s resources. Although there are several types of ruins within the area, including those of the Puebloan, Navajo, and Hispanic...
Agency | BLM
joinerID | 678BLM

Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
Wilderness | Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Bisti_De_Na_Zin
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BistiDeNaZin.jpg
Description | An eerie otherworldliness surrounds Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, especially when the moon casts shadows across the hoodoos, weird rock formations with mazelike passages. Difficult as it is to believe, this...

Broad Canyon Wilderness
Wilderness | Broad Canyon Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Broad_Canyon
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BroadCanyon.jpg
Description | A secluded gem, the Broad Canyon Wilderness shelters hidden water pools, flat-topped mountains and ancient cultural sites. Ancient lava flows carved by through the erosion of water form several small canyons...

Sierra de las Uvas Wilderness
Wilderness | Sierra de las Uvas Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sierra_de_las_Uvas
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SierradelasUvas.jpg
Description | The Las Uvas Mountains Wilderness is located in the south-central portion of New Mexico in the Chihuahuan Desert. The area is a mountain complex of tilted, bedded volcanic rock. The western slopes are...

East Potrillo Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | East Potrillo Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | East_Potrillo_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/EastPotrillo.jpg
Description | Chihuahuan Desert grassland and yucca, in association with a mosaic of other desert shrubs such as creosote, acacia, and mesquite, make up the majority of the plant cover in the area. Occasional juniper...

Ah-shi-sle-pah Wilderness
Wilderness | Ah-shi-sle-pah Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Ah_shi_sle_pah
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Ahshislepah.jpg
Description | The Ah-shi-sle-pah Wilderness is located in northwestern New Mexico and in badland area of rolling water-carved clay hills with little vegetation to conceal geological formations including interesting...

Robledo Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Robledo Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Robledo_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/RobledoMountains.jpg
Description | The Robledo Mountains Wilderness is located in the south-central portion of New Mexico in the Chihuahuan Desert. A diversity of habitats such as canyons, limestone cliffs, gentle slopes, caves, and riparian...

Rio San Antonio Wilderness
Wilderness | Rio San Antonio Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Rio_San_Antonio
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/RioSanAntonio.jpg
Description | The Rio San Antonio Wilderness is located within the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument. A flat plain at about 8,400 feet in elevation contains a gorge about 100 feet deep carved by the Rio San Antonio....

Cerro del Yuta Wilderness
Wilderness | Cerro del Yuta Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Cerro_del_Yuta
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CerroDelYuta.jpg
Description | The Cerro Del Yuta Wilderness is located on the Taos Plateu, a volcanic landscape of lava flows and shield volcanoes. Ute Mountain's 10,093-foot peak sets a commanding presence on the flat landscape...

Potrillo Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Potrillo Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Potrillo_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PotrilloMountains.jpg
Description | Extinct volcanoes, black lava fields, and mile after mile of desert grassland combine in the Potrillo Mountains Wilderness; New Mexico’s 4th largest wilderness. These mountains are formed by a series...

Mount Riley Wilderness
Wilderness | Mount Riley Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mount_Riley
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MountRiley.jpg
Description | The Mount Riley Wilderness contains three shield volcanos which rise prominently in the landscape. Mount Riley is the highest point in the region, rising abruptly over 1,700 feet above the surrounding...

Whitethorn Wilderness
Wilderness | Whitethorn Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Whitethorn
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Whitethorn.jpg
Description | The Whitethorn Wilderness is named for the prevalent white-thorn acacia, a key year-round food source for quail and a summer food source for desert mule deer. The volcanic landscape is characterized by...

Cinder Cone Wilderness
Wilderness | Cinder Cone Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Cinder_Cone
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NoPicture.gif
Description | The Cinder Cone Wilderness is part of the Greater Potrillo Mountains Complex, located approximately 30 miles southwest of Las Cruces adjacent to the border with Mexico. This wilderness features an extremely...

Aden Lava Flow Wilderness
Wilderness | Aden Lava Flow Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Aden_Lava_Flow
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/AdenLavaFlow.jpg
Description | The Aden Lava Flow Wilderness is located 20 miles southwest of Las Cruces in the Chihuahuan Desert. The area is characterized by basalt flows, volcanic craters, and coppice sand dunes. The lava flow includes...

Organ Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Organ Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Organ_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/OrganMountains.jpg
Description | The Organ Mountains Wilderness provides the backdrop to the Mesilla Valley and New Mexico’s second largest city: Las Cruces. From picnickers to horsemen, family outings to day hikes, these mountains...

Dome Wilderness
Wilderness | Dome Wilderness
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Abbreviated Name | Dome
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/dome.jpg
Description | Dome Wilderness seems dwarfed by the adjacent Bandelier Wilderness , but sometimes the best gifts come in small packages. In this case, be prepared for primitive canyonlands and prehistoric ruins (and...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 161FS

Sabinoso Wilderness
Wilderness | Sabinoso Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sabinoso
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/sabinoso.jpg
Description | The Sabinoso Wilderness is in a remote area of the northeastern portion of New Mexico. The wilderness is located in the short-grass prairie region of the Great Plains along the Canadian Escarpment where...

Aldo Leopold Wilderness
Wilderness | Aldo Leopold Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Aldo_Leopold
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/AldoLeopold.jpg
Description | Named for one of history’s most influential conservationists, the Aldo Leopold Wilderness protects the roughest, wildest portions of one of New Mexico’s roughest, wildest corners: the Black Range....
Agency | FS
joinerID | 4FS

Apache Kid Wilderness
Wilderness | Apache Kid Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Apache_Kid
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/ApacheKid.jpg
Description | Angered by his relentless raids, local ranchers hunted down and killed the Apache Kid on these grounds. To mark the site of the Kid's undoing, the vengeful posse blazed a tree, the hacked remains of which...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 14FS

Columbine-Hondo Wilderness
Wilderness | Columbine-Hondo Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Columbine_Hondo
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Columbine-Hondo.jpg
Description | The Columbine-Hondo Wilderness is a wild mountain basin, located in the majestic Sangre de Cristo Mountains. These mountains were pushed up around 20 million years ago, and are one of the youngest mountain...

Cruces Basin Wilderness
Wilderness | Cruces Basin Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Cruces_Basin
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CrusesBasin.jpg
Description | Cruces Basin Wilderness, located just south of the Colorado line, contains some of New Mexico's most pristine country. Cruces Basin Wilderness contains great opportunities for solitude. A mountain plateau...

Blue Range Wilderness
Wilderness | Blue Range Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Blue_Range
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/blue_range.jpg
Description | Combine New Mexico's Blue Range Wilderness with Arizona's Blue Range Primitive Area and you have two pieces of earth that encompass a wild, generally dry, and seemingly endless expanse of rough but beautiful...

Capitan Mountains Wilderness
Wilderness | Capitan Mountains Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Capitan_Mountains
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CapitanMountains.jpg
Description | The birthplace of Smokey the Bear, discovered here as a cub in 1951, is a rugged piece of mountain real estate that straddles something that's unusual in New Mexico: an east-west-running range. Numerous...

Chama River Canyon Wilderness
Wilderness | Chama River Canyon Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Chama_River_Canyon
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/chama.jpg
Description | The Wild and Scenic Chama River, popular among river rafters and canoeists, runs through six miles of the Wilderness. Its beauty is so impressive that most people don't bother visiting the relatively unspectacular...

Latir Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Latir Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Latir_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/LatirPeak.jpg
Description | This remote area has deep forest cover interrupted only by pleasant meadows and alpine tundra on the northern portion's Latir Mesa. With three peaks exceeding 12,500 feet in elevation, including a portion...

Gila Wilderness
Wilderness | Gila Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Gila
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Gila.jpg
Description | On June 3, 1924, at Aldo Leopold's insistence, Gila became the world's first designated Wilderness area (and also New Mexico's largest Wilderness). Today this is one of the best destinations for backpackers...

Manzano Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Manzano Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Manzano_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/ManzanoMountain.jpg
Description | Don't let this area deceive you. It looks devoid of scenery from a distance, but is full of surprises as you explore the trails. The same held true in the early 1700s, when explorers visiting a small village...

Pecos Wilderness
Wilderness | Pecos Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Pecos
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Pecos.jpg
Description | Deep and narrow canyons, long and broad mesa tops, heavily forested slopes, and rugged ridges with peaks above timberline characterize the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of the Pecos Wilderness. This small...

San Pedro Parks Wilderness
Wilderness | San Pedro Parks Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | San_Pedro_Parks
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SanPedroParks.jpg
Description | San Pedro Parks Wilderness began as a Primitive Area, established by the Chief of the Forest Service in 1931. In 1941 the Secretary of Agriculture classified it as a Wild Area and set its acreage at 41,132...

Sandia Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Sandia Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sandia_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SandiaMountain.jpg
Description | Despite the fact that these mountains tower above the very nearby sprawl of Albuquerque and despite the fact that the trails of this Wilderness may be more heavily used than any other trail system in the...

Wheeler Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Wheeler Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Wheeler_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WheelerPeak.jpg
Description | About 135 million years ago a tremendous geologic uplift created the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Wheeler Peak Wilderness now marks the top of this rugged range, with Wheeler Peak, at 13,161 feet, standing...

White Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | White Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | White_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WhiteMountain.jpg
Description | With elevations reaching 11,580 feet, up to six feet of snow blankets these mountains from the middle to latter part of November until as late as June, hence the name White Mountains. The White Mountains...

Withington Wilderness
Wilderness | Withington Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Withington
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WithingtonMountain.jpg
Description | In the northern extreme of the San Mateo Mountains and almost entirely on their eastern slopes lies the little-known Withington Wilderness, a land of precious and often parched solitude. Elevations range...