Oregon Wildernesses

Lower White River Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 19
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=731
Wilderness | Lower White River Wilderness
State | OR
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Date of Last Update | 2/26/2019
WID | 731
Abbreviated Name | Lower_White_River
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/LowerWhiteRiver.jpg
Acreage | 1124
Description | The White River originates on Mt. Hood, at the leading edge of the White River Glacier. As the glacier melts in late summer, it releases large amounts of silt which gives the river the milky appearance...
Agency | BLM
joinerID | 731BLM
Designated | 2009
ORIG_FID | 28343

Lower White River Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 20
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=731
Wilderness | Lower White River Wilderness
State | OR
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Date of Last Update | 2/26/2019
WID | 731
Abbreviated Name | Lower_White_River
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/LowerWhiteRiver.jpg
Acreage | 1747
Description | The White River originates on Mt. Hood, at the leading edge of the White River Glacier. As the glacier melts in late summer, it releases large amounts of silt which gives the river the milky appearance...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 731FS
Designated | 2009
ORIG_FID | 28344

Wild Rogue Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 84
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=651
Wilderness | Wild Rogue Wilderness
State | OR
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Date of Last Update | 2/26/2019
WID | 651
Abbreviated Name | Wild_Rogue
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WildRogue.jpg
Acreage | 8604
Description | Surrounding the Wild and Scenic Rogue River, the rugged and complex canyon landscape of the Wild Rogue Wilderness provides watershed protection for the Wild portion of the river. The area is characterized...
Agency | BLM
joinerID | 651BLM
Designated | 1978
ORIG_FID | 40293

Hells Canyon Wilderness
Wilderness | Hells Canyon Wilderness
State | ID/OR
Abbreviated Name | Hells_Canyon_IDOR
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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

Oregon Islands Wilderness
Wilderness | Oregon Islands Wilderness
Comment | <Null>
Abbreviated Name | Oregon_Islands
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/OregonIslands.jpg
Description | A string of 1,854 wave-washed rocks and islands mirror almost the entire length of the Oregon coast from Tillamook Head to the California border. These precious chunks of unsurveyed lands above the line...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 430FWS

Three Arch Rocks Wilderness
Wilderness | Three Arch Rocks Wilderness
Comment | <Null>
Abbreviated Name | Three_Arch_Rocks
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/threeArchRocks.jpg
Description | Designated as the first National Wildlife Refuge west of the Mississippi River, Three Arch Rocks Refuge and Wilderness lies half a mile offshore of the community of Oceanside. One of the Oregon coast's...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 600FWS

Wild Rogue Wilderness
Wilderness | Wild Rogue Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Wild_Rogue
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WildRogue.jpg
Description | Surrounding the Wild and Scenic Rogue River, the rugged and complex canyon landscape of the Wild Rogue Wilderness provides watershed protection for the Wild portion of the river. The area is characterized...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 651FS

Soda Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Soda Mountain Wilderness
Comment | <Null>
Abbreviated Name | Soda_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SodaMountain.jpg
Description | The Soda Mountain Wilderness in southwestern Oregon is an ecological mosaic where the state's eastern desert meets towering fir forests. The biodiversity of the area includes fir forests, sunlit oak groves...

Spring Basin Wilderness
Wilderness | Spring Basin Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Spring_Basin
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SpringBasin.jpg
Description | Located just above the John Day River just south of state highway 218 near Clarno, Oregon, the Spring Basin Wilderness is a tapestry of rolling hills, providing spectacular vistas of the river and surrounding...

Table Rock Wilderness
Wilderness | Table Rock Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Table_Rock
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/TableRock.jpg
Description | A remnant of a lava flow that once covered this region along the western foothills of the Cascades, the "fortress" of Table Rock rises from a low point of 1,270 feet to 4,881 feet above the northeastern...

Steens Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Steens Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Steens_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SteensMountain.jpg
Description | Located in Oregon’s high desert, Steens Mountain Wilderness is one of the crown jewels of the state's wildlands. Rising from 4,200 feet to 9,773 feet on Steens Mountain, it is some of the wildest and...

Oregon Badlands Wilderness
Wilderness | Oregon Badlands Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Oregon_Badlands
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/OregonBadlands.jpg
Description | The Oregon Badlands Wilderness holds a number of remarkable and exciting landforms and geologic features. Most of the area includes the rugged Badlands volcano, which has features of inflated lava. Windblown...

Hells Canyon Wilderness
Wilderness | Hells Canyon Wilderness
State | ID/OR
Abbreviated Name | Hells_Canyon_IDOR
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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

Devils Staircase Wilderness
Wilderness | Devils Staircase Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Devils_Staircase
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/DevilsStaircase.jpg
Description | East of Reedsport, Oregon, the Devils Staircase Wilderness comprises some of the last remaining old-growth forest in the Oregon Coast Range. This remote and inaccessible place truly meets the definition...

Black Canyon Wilderness
Wilderness | Black Canyon Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Black_Canyon_OR
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BlackCanyon-OR-BLM.jpg
Description | Thickets of willow and brush line the banks of Black Canyon Creek, which drops from 6,483 feet to 2,850 feet as it drains the Black Canyon Wilderness easterly into the South Fork John Day River. Cliffs...

Badger Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Badger Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Badger_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BadgerCreek .jpg
Description | For the most commanding view of the Cascades and the high desert country to the east, you'll have to hike up Lookout Mountain, the highest point in the area at 6,525 feet. The mountain itself and the high...

Copper Salmon Wilderness
Wilderness | Copper Salmon Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Copper_Salmon
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CopperSalmon.jpg
Description | The Copper Salmon Wilderness is tucked away in the northwest corner of the Rogue River - Siskiyou National Forest, 11 miles east of Port Orford on the Elk River, and includes the North and South Forks...

Cummins Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Cummins Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Cummins_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CumminsCreek.jpg
Description | The Cummins Creek Wilderness (9,173 acres) is one of three small wilderness areas established on the Siuslaw National Forest by Act of Congress in 1984. Cummins Creek Wilderness is located in the Oregon...

Drift Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Drift Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Drift_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NoPicture.gif
Description | The Drift Creek Wilderness (5,798 acres) is one of three small wilderness areas established on the Siuslaw National Forest by Act of Congress in 1984. Drift Creek Wilderness is located in the Oregon Coast...

Diamond Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Diamond Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Diamond_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/diamond_peak.jpg
Description | Great glaciers carved Diamond Peak after volcanic activity created the mountain. Today, at 8,744 feet, it surpasses every other summit in this region of the Cascade Mountains. Diamond Peak Wilderness...

Boulder Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Boulder Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Boulder_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/boulderCreek.jpg
Description | Small waterfalls and rapids connect the series of quiet pools that make up Boulder Creek, a tributary of the North Umpqua River. Ponderosa pines flourish on Pine Bench, near the lower end of the Wilderness...

Bridge Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Bridge Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Bridge_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BridgeCreek.jpg
Description | Bridge Creek drains northeasterly from the edge of the summit of the Ochoco Mountains, essentially dividing the Wilderness into two meadow-filled plateaus. The peaks of East Point and North Point look...

Bull of the Woods Wilderness
Wilderness | Bull of the Woods Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Bull_of_the_Woods
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/bull_woods.jpg
Description | This isolated Wilderness boasts about a dozen lakes measuring at least one acre and chock-full of trout. These blue jewels are nestled throughout the mountains, accessible by trail but separated by high...

Clackamas Wilderness
Wilderness | Clackamas Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Clackamas
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Clackamas.jpg
Description | The Clackamas Wilderness consists of five widely separated tracts of roadless land, scattered left and right of the Clackamas River for 50 miles. These pieces include Big Bottom, Clackamas Canyon, Memaloose...

Eagle Cap Wilderness
Wilderness | Eagle Cap Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Eagle_Cap
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/EagleCap.jpg
Description | Oregon's largest Wilderness encompasses the heart of the Wallowa Mountains, once home to the Nez Perce Indians. It also qualifies as the state's largest continuous alpine area and encompasses Legore Lake...

Grassy Knob Wilderness
Wilderness | Grassy Knob Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Grassy_Knob
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/GrassyKnob.jpg
Description | Covered in a tangled rain forest of coniferous evergreens thick with an ankle-grabbing understory, Grassy Knob Wilderness lies rugged and steep. Access is limited and off-trail hiking rates as an extremely...

Kalmiopsis Wilderness
Wilderness | Kalmiopsis Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Kalmiopsis
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Kalmiopsis.jpg
Description | This nearly 180,000 acre Wilderness includes the headwater basin of the Chetco and North Fork Smith Rivers and a portion of the Illinois River canyon. This is a harsh, rugged area with a unique character....

Middle Santiam Wilderness
Wilderness | Middle Santiam Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Middle_Santiam
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/middle_santiam.jpg
Description | Mature old-growth trees shadow virtually all of this Wilderness, with Douglas fir, western red cedar, and western hemlock at lower elevations and true firs higher up. Some of the trees, estimated to be...

Mill Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Mill Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mill_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/mill_creek.jpg
Description | The southwest-tending drainage of Mill Creek makes up 85 percent of the Wilderness, with Marks Creek drainage accounting for the difference. Both creeks are tributaries of Ochoco Creek, and home to small...

Mount Washington Wilderness
Wilderness | Mount Washington Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mount_Washington
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MountWashington.jpg
Description | This geological wonderland of rugged terrain topped by jagged peaks includes, near its center, the 6,872-foot cinder and ash cone of Belknap Crater, whose eruptions created one of the largest sheets of...

Mountain Lakes Wilderness
Wilderness | Mountain Lakes Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mountain_Lakes
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/mtnlakes.jpg
Description | Before its eruption and subsequent transformation into a large caldera (a broad, craterlike basin formed by volcanic violence), the area we call Mountain Lakes Wilderness was a 12,000-foot mountain, one...

Monument Rock Wilderness
Wilderness | Monument Rock Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Monument_Rock
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MonumentRock.jpg
Description | In the southern Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon, Monument Rock, Bullrun Rock, and Table Rock tower over the many streams that form the headwaters of the Little Malheur River and the upper drainages of...

Mount Hood Wilderness
Wilderness | Mount Hood Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mount_Hood
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MountHood.jpg
Description | Mount Hood, Oregon's highest summit at 11,240 feet, is a dormant volcano covered with 11 active glaciers. This snow covered peak lies at the heart of the Wilderness and is covered with forested slopes...

Mount Jefferson Wilderness
Wilderness | Mount Jefferson Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mount_Jefferson
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MountJefferson.jpg
Description | Five glaciers mantle the slopes of stately Mount Jefferson, the dominant feature in this region of the High Cascades: Whitewater, Waldo, Milk Creek, Russell, and Jefferson Park. At 10,497 feet, Mount Jefferson...

Mount Thielsen Wilderness
Wilderness | Mount Thielsen Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mount_Thielsen
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MountThielsen.jpg
Description | Carved majestically by glacial activity and rising 9,182 feet to aspire-shaped summit referred to sometimes as the "Lightning Rod of the Cascades," Mount Thielsen anchors the southern portion of this Wilderness....

Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness
Wilderness | Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mark_O_Hatfield
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MarkOHatfield.jpg
Description | Known as the Columbia Gorge Recreation Area prior to Wilderness designation, this area lies just south of the sheer cliffs of the Columbia River Gorge. Most of the land adjacent to the river and along...

Menagerie Wilderness
Wilderness | Menagerie Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Menagerie
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/menagerie.jpg
Description | Technical rock climbers travel substantial distances to test their skills on the series of weird rock pinnacles that dominates Menagerie Wilderness. Each is named after a different animal--Roosters Tail...

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 John Day Wilderness
Wilderness | North Fork John Day Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | North_Fork_John_Day
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NorthForkJohnDay.jpg
Description | The North Fork John Day drainage bustled with gold and silver mining operations in the mid-1800s, and traces of the thousands of hopefuls who made off with an estimated 10 million dollars in ore are still...

North Fork Umatilla Wilderness
Wilderness | North Fork Umatilla Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | North_Fork_Umatilla
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NorthForkUmatilla.jpg
Description | Instead of rising into high peaks, to offer a somewhat unique Wilderness experience the gently sloping hills of North Fork Umatilla Wilderness fall into extremely steep, timbered canyons below a high plateau....

Opal Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Opal Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Opal_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/OpalCreek.jpg
Description | Opal Creek Wilderness features steep and rugged forested hillsides. The eastern portion of the area encompasses the headwaters of two major creeks (Battle Axe Creek and Opal Creek) which join to become...

Three Sisters Wilderness
Wilderness | Three Sisters Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Three_Sisters
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/ThreeSisters.jpg
Description | The high, snowcapped Three Sisters (North Sister at 10,085 feet, Middle Sister at 10,047 feet, and South Sister at 10,358 feet) embellish the eastern side of this Wilderness, the second largest in Oregon....

Rock Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Rock Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Rock_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/RockCreek.jpg
Description | The Rock Creek Wilderness (7,486 acres) is one of three small wilderness areas established on the Siuslaw National Forest by Act of Congress in 1984. The Rock Creek Wilderness is located in the Oregon...

Rogue-Umpqua Divide Wilderness
Wilderness | Rogue-Umpqua Divide Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Rogue_Umpqua_Divide
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/RogueUmpquaDivide.jpg
Description | The Rogue Umpqua Divide Wilderness is located in southwest Oregon, ten miles west of Crater Lake National Park. Elevations range from 3000 to 6800 feet along the divide between the Rogue and Umpqua Rivers....

Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness
Wilderness | Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Salmon_Huckleberry
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SalmonHuckleberry.jpg
Description | The main attraction in this Wilderness, the Salmon River provides excellent habitat for steelhead and chinook and coho salmon. The drainages of the South Fork Salmon River and Eagle Creek stand cloaked...

Sky Lakes Wilderness
Wilderness | Sky Lakes Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Sky_Lakes
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SkyLakes.jpg
Description | With a name like Sky Lakes, this Wilderness is obliged to deliver at least more than one impressive sapphire pool, and it does. In fact, it takes in three major lake (former glacial) basins as it stretches...

Strawberry Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Strawberry Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Strawberry_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/StrawberryMountain.jpg
Description | This high-country rugged Wilderness contains five of the seven major life zones in North America. Glaciation hollowed out beds in U-shaped valleys that today hold seven alpine lakes. Elevation ranges...

Waldo Lake Wilderness
Wilderness | Waldo Lake Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Waldo_Lake
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/waldo_lake.jpg
Description | Oregon's second-largest body of natural water dwells in a basin scooped out by ancient glaciers, covers 10 square miles (6,700 acres), and is 420 feet deep at some points. On a bright day, you can see...

Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness
Wilderness | Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness
State | OR/WA
Abbreviated Name | Wenaha_Tucannon
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/wenaha.jpg
Description | This Wilderness is a maze of deep, sheer-walled canyons that cut into what was once a flat and expansive plateau at the northernmost reach of the Blue Mountains located in Northeast Oregon and Southeast...

Roaring River Wilderness
Wilderness | Roaring River Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Roaring_River
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NoPicture.gif
Description | The largest block of new wilderness designated in 2009 in Oregon is in the Roaring River Valley, a tributary of the Clackamas River. The wilderness area is named after the Roaring River that flows through...

Gearhart Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Gearhart Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Gearhart_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/GearhartMountain.jpg
Description | At 8,364 feet, Gearhart Mountain stands higher than all the other volcanic domes in this Wilderness of high mountain meadows, cirques, and U-shaped valleys. Picturesque rock formations cap most of the...