Wyoming Wildernesses

Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 450
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=1
Wilderness | Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
State | MT/WY
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 12/27/2021
WID | 1
Abbreviated Name | Absaroka_Beartooth
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/AbsarokaBeartooth.jpg
Acreage | 937102
Description | The Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness is located in south central Montana, with a small portion in northern Wyoming, just north of Yellowstone National Park. The Wilderness is home to Montana's tallest peak...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 1FS
Designated | 1978
ORIG_FID | 44286

Bridger Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 509
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=78
Wilderness | Bridger Wilderness
State | WY
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 12/27/2021
WID | 78
Abbreviated Name | Bridger
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Bridger.jpg
Acreage | 426751
Description | Jim Bridger, certainly one of the most famous mountain men in American history, is memorialized by this popular Wilderness in the Wind River Range of western Wyoming. This rugged piece of the Rocky Mountains...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 78FS
Designated | 1964
ORIG_FID | 44346

Cloud Peak Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 538
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=129
Wilderness | Cloud Peak Wilderness
State | WY
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 12/27/2021
WID | 129
Abbreviated Name | Cloud_Peak
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/CloudPeak.jpg
Acreage | 191914
Description | This area was managed as the Cloud Peak Primitive Area as far back as 1932 and runs for 27 miles along the spine of the Bighorn Mountain Range, Cloud Peak Wilderness preserves many sharp summits and towering...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 129FS
Designated | 1984
ORIG_FID | 44375

Encampment River Wilderness
Wilderness | Encampment River Wilderness
State | WY
Abbreviated Name | Encampment_River
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/EncampmentRiver.jpg
Description | Here in the northernmost extension of the Southern Rocky Mountains, the Encampment River flows north out of Colorado, past the town of Encampment and into the North Platte River. Along part of the river's...

Fitzpatrick Wilderness
Wilderness | Fitzpatrick Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Fitzpatrick
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Fitzpatrick.jpg
Description | Originally called the Glacier Primitive Area, this Wilderness holds 44 active glaciers (one spanning 1,220 acres) and many ragged mountain peaks in the northern half of the Wind River Mountain Range. Situated...

Gros Ventre Wilderness
Wilderness | Gros Ventre Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Gros_Ventre
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/GrosVentre.jpg
Description | The Gros Ventre Wilderness lies just east of Jackson in western Wyoming. The name "Gros Ventre" is French, meaning "big belly". It is roughly bounded by the Gros Ventre River to the north, the Green River...

Huston Park Wilderness
Wilderness | Huston Park Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Huston_Park
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/HustonPark.jpg
Description | With approximately 48 square miles of high forested land, Huston Park Wilderness rises beyond 10,500 feet and contains alpine bogs and stands of lodgepole pine, spruce, fir, and aspen, interspersed with...

Jedediah Smith Wilderness
Wilderness | Jedediah Smith Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Jedediah_Smith
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/JedediahSmith.jpg
Description | The Jedediah Smith Wilderness was designated because of the unique karst limestone features, including numerous caves and outstanding scenery. It was named after Jedediah Strong Smith, a well-educated...

North Absaroka Wilderness
Wilderness | North Absaroka Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | North_Absaroka
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/NorthAbsaroka.jpg
Description | Yellowstone National Park lies along the western boundary of North Absaroka Wilderness, which also shares a border with Montana and contains one of the areas least desecrated by humanity's insatiable thirst...

Platte River Wilderness
Wilderness | Platte River Wilderness
State | CO/WY
Abbreviated Name | Platte_River
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PlatteRiver.jpg
Description | About 36 square miles of forested land lying primarily north and east of the North Platte River is included in this Wyoming Wilderness, with a small segment in Colorado's Routt National Forest. On the...

Popo Agie Wilderness
Wilderness | Popo Agie Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Popo_Agie
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PopoAgie.jpg
Description | This rough land features high, jagged peaks; deep, narrow valleys and canyons; sheer granite walls; cirque basins; talus slopes; and perennial snowfields. This area abuts the Continental Divide and encompasses...

Teton Wilderness
Wilderness | Teton Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Teton
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Teton.jpg
Description | The state's second largest Wilderness area straddles the Continental Divide deep in the heart of Wyoming's Yellowstone Ecosystem. It is bordered on the north by Yellowstone National Park, on the east by...

Savage Run Wilderness
Wilderness | Savage Run Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Savage_Run
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/SavageRun.jpg
Description | Steep-sided canyons rest at the lower elevations (around 8,000 feet) of this forested Wilderness, which covers about 23 square miles on the west side of the Medicine Bow Range. The land rises to about...

Washakie Wilderness
Wilderness | Washakie Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Washakie
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/washakie.jpg
Description | Chief Washakie was a historical figure and leader of the Shoshone tribe of Wyoming. In 1972, the Stratified Primitive Area was joined with South Absaroka Wilderness to form the Wilderness area (Wyoming's...

Winegar Hole Wilderness
Wilderness | Winegar Hole Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Winegar_Hole
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/winegar_hole.jpg
Description | The Winegar Hole Wilderness was designated specifically to provide high quality habitat for the grizzly bear. Part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, this Wilderness is located on the southern boundary...