Washington Wildernesses

Mount Rainier Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 3
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=382
Wilderness | Mount Rainier Wilderness
State | WA
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Date of Last Update | 3/30/2019
WID | 382
Abbreviated Name | Mount_Rainier
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MountRainier.jpg
Acreage | 228480
Description | Mount Rainier Wilderness is located on the west-side of the Cascade Range, approximately 50 miles southeast of the Seattle-Tacoma metropolitan area. At 14,410 feet, Mount Rainier is the most prominent...
Agency | NPS
joinerID | 382NPS
Designated | 1988
ORIG_FID | 11345

Daniel J. Evans Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 10
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=428
Wilderness | Daniel J. Evans Wilderness
State | WA
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Date of Last Update | 3/30/2019
WID | 428
Abbreviated Name | Daniel_J_Evans
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Olympic.jpg
Acreage | 876447
Description | The Daniel J. Evans Wilderness serves to protect diminishing herds of Roosevelt Elk, disappearing old-growth forests, and the grandeur of the Olympic Mountains and Pacific coast. To further protect this...
Agency | NPS
joinerID | 428NPS
Designated | 1988
ORIG_FID | 17864

William O. Douglas Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 27
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=652
Wilderness | William O. Douglas Wilderness
State | WA
Comment | Has adjacent polygons
Date of Last Update | 2/26/2019
WID | 652
Abbreviated Name | William_O_Douglas
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WilliamODouglas.jpg
Acreage | 168955
Description | This magnificent region pays tribute to the Wilderness-loving Supreme Court justice who often explored the area on foot. It lies bordered to the west by Mount Rainier National Park, with Norse Peak and...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 652FS
Designated | 1984
ORIG_FID | 28411

San Juan Wilderness
Wilderness | San Juan Wilderness
Comment | <Null>
Abbreviated Name | San_Juan
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SanJuan.jpg
Description | The tips of submerged mountains collectively thrust above the sea where two straits--Georgia and Juan de Fuca--meet up with Puget Sound, forming the San Juan Islands. Of the 700 or so islands, islets...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 523FWS

Washington Islands Wilderness
Wilderness | Washington Islands Wilderness
Comment | <Null>
Abbreviated Name | Washington_Islands
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WashingtonIslands.jpg
Description | Washington Islands Wilderness is located off the the Olympic Coast within the Washington Islands National Wildlife Refuges, established by Theodore Roosevelt. Washington Islands is comprised of Flattery...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 633FWS

Buckhorn Wilderness
Wilderness | Buckhorn Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Buckhorn
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/buckhorn.jpg
Description | Located in the northeast corner of Olympic National Forest, just to the north of The Brothers Wilderness, Buckhorn Wilderness stands divided into northern and southern portions by the Dungeness River and...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 83FS

Colonel Bob Wilderness
Wilderness | Colonel Bob Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Colonel_Bob
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/colonelBob.jpg
Description | Located in the southwest corner of the Olympic National Forest near Quinault Lake. Towering evergreens and an emerald carpet of mosses, ferns, lichens, and wildflowers all characterize the temperate rain...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 132FS

Wonder Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Wonder Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Wonder_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/wonderMountain.jpg
Description | Located in the southeast corner of Olympic National Forest, little Wonder Mountain Wilderness extends south roughly in the shape of a triangle. A high ridge encompasses the southern point of the triangle...

Mount Skokomish Wilderness
Wilderness | Mount Skokomish Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mount_Skokomish
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MountSkokomish.jpg
Description | Mt. Skokomish Wilderness is located in the southeast corner of Olympic National Forest, just north of Lake Cushman. Two long ridges here, running roughly northeast to southwest, support several bold rocky...

Clearwater Wilderness
Wilderness | Clearwater Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Clearwater
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/clearwater.jpg
Description | The Clearwater Wilderness is the northwestern outpost of a wilderness complex centered on Mt. Rainier National Park which includes the adjacent Norse Peak, William O. Douglas, Tatoosh, and Glacier View...

Glacier Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Glacier Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Glacier_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/GlacierPeak.jpg
Description | Glacier Peak Wilderness, which shares its northern border with North Cascades National Park, has few equals in terms of sheer ruggedness. Glacier Peak, the highest summit in the area at 10,541 feet, is...

Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness
Wilderness | Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Lake_Chelan_Sawtooth
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/LakeChelan-Sawtooth.jpg
Description | Long, lean, and lovely best describes Lake Chelan. From Chelan's northeastern shore, this secluded Wilderness rears rapidly skyward to the crest of bold Sawtooth Range, which cuts diagonally through the...

Glacier View Wilderness
Wilderness | Glacier View Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Glacier_View
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/GlacierView.jpg
Description | For an extravagant look at the glacier-covered west side of Mount Rainier, hike to the top of 5,450-foot Glacier View in the northwest corner of this Wilderness, which, coincidentally, shares a portion...

The Brothers Wilderness
Wilderness | The Brothers Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | The_Brothers
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/the_brothers.jpg
Description | The Brothers Wilderness is located on the eastern flanks of the Olympic National Forest just South of Buckhorn Wilderness and north of Mt. Skokomish Wilderness. Between moss- and fern-laden banks, the...

Juniper Dunes Wilderness
Wilderness | Juniper Dunes Wilderness
Comment | <Null>
Abbreviated Name | Juniper_Dunes
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/juniper_dunes.jpg
Description | The Juniper Dunes Wilderness preserves the northernmost growth of western juniper, some of which have been around for 150 years, along with windswept sand dunes measuring 130 feet in height and 1,000 feet...
Agency | BLM
joinerID | 282BLM

Boulder River Wilderness
Wilderness | Boulder River Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Boulder_River
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BoulderRiver.jpg
Description | Many are the mysteries of the Boulder River Wilderness. Less than 25 miles from Puget Sound, as the marbled murrellet flies, rise the crags and soggy forests of this wilderness. With elevations ranging...

Goat Rocks Wilderness
Wilderness | Goat Rocks Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Goat_Rocks
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/GoatRocks.jpg
Description | The Goat Rocks Wilderness is a portion of the volcanic Cascade Mountain Range in southwestern Washington located between Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams. The Goat Rocks are remnants of a large volcano, extinct...

Henry M. Jackson Wilderness
Wilderness | Henry M. Jackson Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Henry_M_Jackson
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/HenryMJackson.jpg
Description | Senator Henry Jackson of Washington was instrumental in the designation of many of the state's Wildernesses, and this "forest" of fabled peaks recalls his efforts. Straddling more than 30 miles of the...

Indian Heaven Wilderness
Wilderness | Indian Heaven Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Indian_Heaven
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/IndianHeaven.jpg
Description | A forested plateau dominated by fir (Pacific silver, noble, subalpine) opens often into meadows with at least 150 small lakes, ponds, and marshes. Most of the larger lakes contain rainbow and brook trout....

Mount Adams Wilderness
Wilderness | Mount Adams Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mount_Adams
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MountAdams.jpg
Description | Second in height only to Mount Rainier statewide, 12,276-foot Mount Adams looms over at least 10 impressive glaciers and a Wilderness of forested slopes and subalpine meadows. The huge volcanic bulk of...

Norse Peak Wilderness
Wilderness | Norse Peak Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Norse_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NorsePeak.jpg
Description | Just northeast of Mount Rainier National Park, Norse Peak Wilderness reaches down both sides of the crest of the Cascade Mountain Range. Narrow drainages below rockbound ridges slice deeply into the area...

Trapper Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Trapper Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Trapper_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/TrapperCreek.jpg
Description | Trapper Creek Wilderness protects nearly all of the Trapper Creek drainage and provides the only pristine anadromous fish habitat in the Wind River watershed. Sparkling streams and waterfalls grace steeply...

Salmo-Priest Wilderness
Wilderness | Salmo-Priest Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Salmo_Priest
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SalmoPriest.jpg
Description | Tucked among the Selkirk Mountains in the extreme northeastern corner of Washington, the U-shaped Salmo-Priest Wilderness extends its borders along those of Idaho and British Columbia. Its most prominent...

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...

Wild Sky Wilderness
Wilderness | Wild Sky Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Wild_Sky
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/WildSky.jpg
Description | The Wild Sky Wilderness is the newest addition to a 2.6 million acre wilderness complex that straddles the rugged North Cascade Range from Canada to Snoqualmie Pass. The southwestern portion of the wilderness...

Alpine Lakes Wilderness
Wilderness | Alpine Lakes Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Alpine_Lakes
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/AlpineLakes.jpg
Description | The Alpine Lakes Wilderness covers over 400,000 acres of the famously scenic Washington's central Cascades. The Wilderness lies between Snolqualmie and Stevens Passes in the North Cascades portion of the...

Tatoosh Wilderness
Wilderness | Tatoosh Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Tatoosh
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Tatoosh.jpg
Description | One of five Wilderness areas near Mount Rainier National Park, the Tatoosh Wilderness Area shares a portion of the park's southern boundary. Tatoosh Ridge, a long, formidably rugged ridge, runs north-south...

Noisy-Diobsud Wilderness
Wilderness | Noisy-Diobsud Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Noisy_Diobsud
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Noisy-Diobsud.jpg
Description | Noisy Creek flows north through this Wilderness and Diobsud Creek drifts south, both bolstering a foot-entangling understory of ferns, mosses, salal, elderberry, and salmonberry, mixed with nasty devil's...

Mount Baker Wilderness
Wilderness | Mount Baker Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Mount_Baker
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/MountBaker.jpg
Description | Mount Baker has shown steamy signs of life as recently as 1975. The volcanic mountain stands at 10,778 feet, making it the fourth highest summit in the state and the dominant feature in the southern portion...

Pasayten Wilderness
Wilderness | Pasayten Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Pasayten
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Pasayten.jpg
Description | Skirting more than 50 miles of Canada's border and encompassing the crest of the Cascades, this big piece of very wild country is home to the largest population of lynx in the Lower 48. The Wilderness...

Stephen Mather Wilderness
Wilderness | Stephen Mather Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Stephen_Mather
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/StephenMather.jpg
Description | If you're looking for sheer wildness and first-rate alpine climbing, this area may be your best choice in the Lower 48. The North Cascades National Park "Complex" consists of three units: North Cascades...
Agency | NPS
joinerID | 577NPS