List of U.S. Wilderness Areas

Four federal agencies of the United States government administer the National Wilderness Preservation System , which includes 662 wilderness areas and 105,695,176 acres (427,733 km²). These agencies are:

• United States Forest Service
• United States National Park Service
• United States Bureau of Land Management
• United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Some areas are designated wilderness by state or tribal governments. These are not federal parks. See List of U.S. state and tribal wilderness areas.

Contents

1 Wilderness Areas by State 1.1 Alabama 1.2 Alaska 1.3 Arizona 1.4 Arkansas 1.5 California 1.6 Colorado 1.7 Florida 1.8 Georgia 1.9 Hawaii 1.10 Idaho 1.11 Illinois 1.12 Indiana 1.13 Kentucky 1.14 Louisiana 1.15 Maine 1.16 Massachusetts 1.17 Michigan 1.18 Minnesota 1.19 Mississippi 1.20 Missouri 1.21 Montana 1.22 Nebraska 1.23 Nevada 1.24 New Hampshire 1.25 New Jersey 1.26 New Mexico 1.27 New York 1.28 North Carolina 1.29 North Dakota 1.30 Ohio 1.31 Oklahoma 1.32 Oregon 1.33 Pennsylvania 1.34 South Carolina 1.35 South Dakota 1.36 Tennessee 1.37 Texas 1.38 Utah 1.39 Vermont 1.40 Virginia 1.41 Washington 1.42 West Virginia 1.43 Wisconsin 1.44 Wyoming 2 Related articles 3 External links

Wilderness Areas by State

Alabama

• Cheaha Wilderness
• Dugger Mountain Wilderness
• Sipsey Wilderness

Alaska

• Aleutian Islands Wilderness
• Andreafsky Wilderness
• Becharof Wilderness
• Bering Sea Wilderness
• Bogoslof Wilderness
• Chamisso Wilderness
• Chuck River Wilderness
• Coronation Island Wilderness
• Denali Wilderness
• Endicott River Wilderness
• Forrester Island Wilderness
• Gates of the Arctic Wilderness
• Glacier Bay Wilderness
• Hazy Islands Wilderness
• Innoko Wilderness
• Izembek Wilderness
• Karta River Wilderness
• Katmai Wilderness
• Kenai Wilderness
• Kobuk Valley Wilderness
• Kootznoowoo Wilderness
• Koyukuk Wilderness
• Kuiu Wilderness
• Lake Clark Wilderness
• Maurille Islands Wilderness
• Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness
• Mollie Beattie Wilderness
• Noatak Wilderness
• Nunivak Wilderness
• Petersburg Creek-Duncan Salt Chuck Wilderness
• Pleasant/Lemusurier/Inian Islands Wilderness
• Russell Fjord Wilderness
• Saint Lazaria Wilderness
• Selawik Wilderness
• Semidi Wilderness
• Simeonof Wilderness
• South Baranof Wilderness
• South Etolin Wilderness
• South Prince of Wales Wilderness
• Stikine-LeConte Wilderness
• Tebenkof Bay Wilderness
• Togiak Wilderness
• Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness
• Tuxedni Wilderness
• Unimak Wilderness
• Warren Island Wilderness
• West Chichagof-Yakobi Wilderness
• Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness

Arizona

• Kachina Peaks Wilderness
• Strawberry Crater Wilderness
• Kendrick Mountain Wilderness
• Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
• Pauite Wilderness
• Grand Wash Cliffs Wilderness
• Mount Logan Wilderness
• Mount Trumbull Wilderness
• Kanab Creek Wilderness
• Cottonwood Point Wilderness
• Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
• Saddle Mountain Wilderness
• Mount Baldy Wilderness
• Escudilla Wilderness

Arkansas

• Big Lake Wilderness
• Black Fork Mountain Wilderness
• Buffalo National River Wilderness
• Caney Creek Wilderness
• Dry Creek Wilderness
• East Fork Wilderness
• Flatside Wilderness
• Hurricane Creek Wilderness
• Leatherwood Wilderness
• Poteau Mountain Wilderness
• Richland Creek Wilderness
• Upper Buffalo Wilderness

California

• Agua Tibia Wilderness
• Ansel Adams Wilderness
• Argus Range Wilderness
• Big Maria Mountains Wilderness
• Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness
• Bighorn Mountain Wilderness
• Black Mountain Wilderness
• Bright Star Wilderness
• Bristol Mountains Wilderness
• Bucks Lake Wilderness
• Cadiz Dunes Wilderness
• Caribou Wilderness
• Carrizo Gorge Wilderness
• Carson-Iceberg Wilderness
• Castle Crags Wilderness
• Chanchelulla Wilderness
• Chemehuevi Mountains Wilderness
• Chimney Peak Wilderness
• Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness
• Chumash Wilderness
• Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness
• Clipper Mountain Wilderness
• Coso Range Wilderness
• Coyote Mountains Wilderness
• Cucamonga Wilderness
• Darwin Falls Wilderness
• Dead Mountains Wilderness
• Death Valley Wilderness
• Desolation Wilderness
• Dick Smith Wilderness
• Dinkey Lakes Wilderness
• Domeland Wilderness
• El Paso Mountains Wilderness
• Emigrant Wilderness
• Farallon Wilderness
• Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness
• Funeral Mountains Wilderness
• Garcia Wilderness
• Golden Trout Wilderness
• Golden Valley Wilderness
• Granite Chief Wilderness
• Grass Valley Wilderness
• Hauser Wilderness
• Havasu Wilderness
• Hollow Hills Wilderness
• Hoover Wilderness
• Ibex Wilderness
• Imperial Refuge Wilderness
• Indian Pass Wilderness
• Inyo Mountains Wilderness
• Ishi Wilderness
• Jacumba Wilderness
• Jennie Lakes Wilderness
• John Muir Wilderness
• Joshua Tree Wilderness
• Kaiser Wilderness
• Kelso Dunes Wilderness
• Kiavah Wilderness
• Kingston Range Wilderness
• Lassen Volcanic Wilderness
• Lava Beds Wilderness
• Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness
• Little Picacho Wilderness
• Machesna Mountain Wilderness
• Machesna Mountain Wilderness
• Malpais Mesa Wilderness
• Manly Peak Wilderness
• Marble Mountain Wilderness
• Matilija Wilderness
• Mecca Hills Wilderness
• Mesquite Wilderness
• Mojave Wilderness
• Mokelumne Wilderness
• Monarch Wilderness
• Mt. Shasta Wilderness
• Newberry Mountains Wilderness
• Nopah Range Wilderness
• North Algodones Dunes Wilderness
• North Fork Wilderness
• North Mesquite Mountains Wilderness
• Old Woman Mountains Wilderness
• Orocopia Mountains Wilderness
• Otay Mountain Wilderness
• Owens Peak Wilderness
• Pahrump Valley Wilderness
• Palen/McCoy Wilderness
• Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness
• Phillip Burton Wilderness
• Picacho Peak Wilderness
• Pine Creek Wilderness
• Pinnacles Wilderness
• Piper Mountain Wilderness
• Piute Mountains Wilderness
• Red Buttes Wilderness
• Resting Spring Range Wilderness
• Rice Valley Wilderness
• Riverside Mountains Wilderness
• Rodman Mountains Wilderness
• Russian Wilderness
• Sacatar Trail Wilderness
• Saddle Peak Hills Wilderness
• San Gabriel Wilderness
• San Gorgonio Wilderness
• San Jacinto Wilderness
• San Mateo Canyon Wilderness
• San Rafael Wilderness
• Santa Lucia Wilderness
• Santa Rosa Wilderness
• Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness
• Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness
• Sespe Wilderness
• Sheep Mountain Wilderness
• Sheephole Valley Wilderness
• Silver Peak Wilderness
• Siskiyou Wilderness
• Snow Mountain Wilderness
• South Nopah Range Wilderness
• South Sierra Wilderness
• South Warner Wilderness
• Stateline Wilderness
• Stepladder Mountains Wilderness
• Surprise Canyon Wilderness
• Sylvania Mountains Wilderness
• Thousand Lakes Wilderness
• Trilobite Wilderness
• Trinity Alps Wilderness
• Turtle Mountains Wilderness
• Ventana Wilderness
• Whipple Mountains Wilderness
• Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness
• Yosemite Wilderness

Colorado

• Black Canyon of the Gunnison Wilderness
• Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness
• Buffalo Peaks Wilderness
• Byers Peak Wilderness
• Cache La Poudre Wilderness
• Collegiate Peaks Wilderness
• Comanche Peak Wilderness
• Eagles Nest Wilderness
• Flat Tops Wilderness
• Fossil Ridge Wilderness
• Great Sand Dunes Wilderness
• Greenhorn Mountain Wilderness
• Gunnison Gorge Wilderness
• Holy Cross Wilderness
• Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness
• Indian Peaks Wilderness
• James Peak Wilderness
• La Garita Wilderness
• Lizard Head Wilderness
• Lost Creek Wilderness
• Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness
• Mesa Verde Wilderness
• Mount Evans Wilderness
• Mount Massive Wilderness
• Mount Sneffels Wilderness
• Mount Zirkel Wilderness
• Neota Wilderness
• Never Summer Wilderness
• Platte River Wilderness
• Powderhorn Wilderness
• Ptarmigan Peak Wilderness
• Raggeds Wilderness
• Rawah Wilderness
• Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
• Sarvis Creek Wilderness
• South San Juan Wilderness
• Spanish Peaks Wilderness
• Uncompahgre Wilderness
• Vasquez Peak Wilderness
• Weminuche Wilderness
• West Elk Wilderness

Florida

• Alexander Springs Wilderness
• Big Gum Swamp Wilderness
• Billies Bay Wilderness
• Bradwell Bay Wilderness
• Cedar Keys Wilderness
• Chassahowitzka Wilderness
• Florida Keys Wilderness
• Island Bay Wilderness
• J.N. Darling Wilderness
• Juniper Prairie Wilderness
• Lake Woodruff Wilderness
• Little Lake George Wilderness
• Marjory Stoneman Douglas Wilderness
• Mud Swamp/New River Wilderness
• Passage Key Wilderness
• Pelican Island Wilderness
• St. Marks Wilderness

Georgia

• Big Frog Wilderness
• Blackbeard Island Wilderness
• Blood Mountain Wilderness
• Brasstown Wilderness
• Cohutta Wilderness
• Cumberland Island Wilderness
• Ellicott Rock Wilderness
• Mark Trail Wilderness
• Okefenokee Wilderness
• Raven Cliffs Wilderness
• Rich Mountain Wilderness
• Southern Nantahala Wilderness
• Tray Mountain Wilderness
• Wolf Island Wilderness

Hawaii

• Haleakala Wilderness
• Hawaii Volcanoes Wilderness

Idaho

• Craters of the Moon National Wilderness
• Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness
• Gospel Hump Wilderness
• Hells Canyon Wilderness
• Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
• Sawtooth Wilderness

Illinois

• Bald Knob Wilderness
• Bay Creek Wilderness
• Burden Falls Wilderness
• Clear Springs Wilderness
• Crab Orchard Wilderness
• Garden of the Gods Wilderness
• Lusk Creek Wilderness
• Panther Den Wilderness

Indiana

• Charles C. Deam Wilderness

Kentucky

• Beaver Creek Wilderness
• Clifty Wilderness

Louisiana

• Breton Wilderness
• Kisatchie Hills Wilderness
• Lacassine Wilderness

Maine

• Caribou-Speckled Mountain Wilderness
• Moosehorn (Baring Unit) Wilderness
• Moosehorn Wilderness

Massachusetts

• Monomoy Wilderness

Michigan

• Big Island Lake Wilderness
• Delirium Wilderness
• Horseshoe Bay Wilderness
• Huron Islands Wilderness
• Isle Royale Wilderness
• Mackinac Wilderness
• McCormick Wilderness
• Michigan Islands Wilderness
• Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness
• Rock River Canyon Wilderness
• Round Island Wilderness
• Seney Wilderness
• Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness
• Sylvania Wilderness

Minnesota

• Agassiz Wilderness
• Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
• Tamarac Wilderness

Mississippi

• Black Creek Wilderness
• Gulf Islands Wilderness
• Leaf Wilderness

Missouri

• Bell Mountain Wilderness
• Devils Backbone Wilderness
• Hercules-Glades Wilderness
• Irish Wilderness
• Mingo Wilderness
• Paddy Creek Wilderness
• Piney Creek Wilderness
• Rockpile Mountain Wilderness

Montana

• Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
• Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness
• Bear Trap Canyon Wilderness
• Bob Marshall Wilderness
• Cabinet Mountains Wilderness
• Gates of the Mountains Wilderness
• Great Bear Wilderness
• Humbug Spires Wilderness
• Lee Metcalf Wilderness
• Medicine Lake Wilderness
• Mission Mountains Wilderness
• Rattlesnake Wilderness
• Red Rock Lakes Wilderness
• Scapegoat Wilderness
• Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness
• UL Bend Wilderness
• Welcome Creek Wilderness

Nebraska

• Fort Niobrara Wilderness
• Soldier Creek Wilderness

Nevada

• Alta Toquima Wilderness
• Arc Dome Wilderness
• Arrow Canyon Wilderness
• Big Rocks Wilderness
• Black Canyon Wilderness
• Black Rock Desert Wilderness
• Boundary Peak Wilderness
• Bridge Canyon Wilderness
• Calico Mountains Wilderness
• Clover Mountains Wilderness
• Currant Mountain Wilderness
• Death Valley Wilderness
• Delamar Mountains Wilderness
• East Fork High Rock Canyon Wilderness
• East Humboldts Wilderness
• Eldorado Wilderness
• Far South Egans Wilderness
• Fortification Range Wilderness
• Grant Range Wilderness
• High Rock Canyon Wilderness
• High Rock Lake Wilderness
• Ireteba Wilderness
• Jarbidge Wilderness
• Jimbilnan Wilderness
• Jumbo Springs Wilderness
• La Madre Mountain Wilderness
• Lime Canyon Wilderness
• Little High Rock Canyon Wilderness
• Meadow Valley Range Wilderness
• Mormon Mountains Wilderness
• Mt. Charleston Wilderness
• Mt. Irish Wilderness
• Mt. Moriah Wilderness
• Mt. Rose Wilderness
• Muddy Mountains Wilderness
• Nellis Wash Wilderness
• North Black Rock Range Wilderness
• North Jackson Mountains Wilderness
• North McCullough Wilderness
• Pahute Peak Wilderness
• Parsnip Peak Wilderness
• Pinto Valley Wilderness
• Quinn Canyon Wilderness
• Rainbow Mountain Wilderness
• Ruby Mountains Wilderness
• Santa Rosa-Paradise Peak Wilderness
• South Jackson Mountains Wilderness
• South McCullough Wilderness
• South Pahroc Range Wilderness
• Spirit Mountain Wilderness
• Table Mountain Wilderness
• Wee Thump Joshua Tree Wilderness

New Hampshire

• Great Gulf Wilderness
• Pemigewasset Wilderness
• Presidential Range-Dry River Wilderness
• Sandwich Range Wilderness

New Jersey

• Brigantine Wilderness
• Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness

New Mexico

• Aldo Leopold Wilderness
• Apache Kid Wilderness
• Bandelier Wilderness
• Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness
• Blue Range Wilderness
• Bosque del Apache Wilderness
• Capitan Mountains Wilderness
• Carlsbad Caverns Wilderness
• Cebolla Wilderness
• Chama River Canyon Wilderness
• Cruces Basin Wilderness
• Dome Wilderness
• Gila Wilderness
• Latir Peak Wilderness
• Manzano Mountain Wilderness
• Pecos Wilderness
• Salt Creek Wilderness
• San Pedro Parks Wilderness
• Sandia Mountain Wilderness
• West Malpais Wilderness
• Wheeler Peak Wilderness
• White Mountain Wilderness
• Withington Wilderness

New York

• Fire Island Wilderness

North Carolina

• Birkhead Mountains Wilderness
• Catfish Lake South Wilderness
• Ellicott Rock Wilderness
• Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness
• Linville Gorge Wilderness
• Middle Prong Wilderness
• Pocosin Wilderness
• Pond Pine Wilderness
• Sheep Ridge Wilderness
• Shining Rock Wilderness

North Dakota

• Chase Lake Wilderness
• Lostwood Wilderness
• Theodore Roosevelt Wilderness

Ohio

• West Sister Island Wilderness

Oklahoma

• Black Fork Mountain Wilderness
• Upper Kiamichi River Wilderness
• Wichita Mountains Wilderness

Oregon

• Badger Creek Wilderness
• Black Canyon Wilderness
• Boulder Creek Wilderness
• Bridge Creek Wilderness
• Bull of the Woods Wilderness
• Cummins Creek Wilderness
• Diamond Peak Wilderness
• Drift Creek Wilderness
• Eagle Cap Wilderness
• Gearhart Mountain Wilderness
• Grassy Knob Wilderness
• Hells Canyon Wilderness
• Kalmiopsis Wilderness
• Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness
• Menagerie Wilderness
• Middle Santiam Wilderness
• Mill Creek Wilderness
• Monument Rock Wilderness
• Mount Hood Wilderness
• Mount Jefferson Wilderness
• Mount Thielsen Wilderness
• Mountain Lakes Wilderness
• North Fork John Day Wilderness
• North Fork Umatilla Wilderness
• Opal Creek Wilderness
• Oregon Islands Wilderness
• Red Buttes Wilderness
• Rock Creek Wilderness
• Rogue-Umpqua Divide Wilderness
• Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness
• Sky Lakes Wilderness
• Steens Mountain Wilderness
• Strawberry Mountain Wilderness
• Table Rock Wilderness
• Three Arch Rocks Wilderness
• Three Sisters Wilderness
• Waldo Lake Wilderness
• Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness
• Wild Rogue Wilderness

Pennsylvania

• Allegheny Islands Wilderness
• Hickory Creek Wilderness

South Carolina

• Cape Romain Wilderness
• Congaree National Park Wilderness
• Ellicott Rock Wilderness
• Hell Hole Bay Wilderness
• Little Wambaw Swamp Wilderness
• Wambaw Creek Wilderness
• Wambaw Swamp Wilderness

South Dakota

• Badlands Wilderness
• Black Elk Wilderness

Tennessee

• Bald River Gorge Wilderness
• Big Frog Wilderness
• Big Laurel Branch Wilderness
• Citico Creek Wilderness
• Cohutta Wilderness
• Gee Creek Wilderness
• Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness
• Little Frog Mountain Wilderness
• Pond Mountain Wilderness
• Sampson Mountain Wilderness
• Unaka Mountain Wilderness

Texas

• Big Slough Wilderness
• Guadalupe Mountains Wilderness
• Indian Mounds Wilderness
• Little Lake Creek Wilderness
• Turkey Hill Wilderness
• Upland Island Wilderness

Utah

• Ashdown Gorge Wilderness
• Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
• Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness
• Box-Death Hollow Wilderness
• Dark Canyon Wilderness
• Deseret Peak Wilderness
• High Uintas Wilderness
• Lone Peak Wilderness
• Mount Naomi Wilderness
• Mount Nebo Wilderness
• Mount Olympus Wilderness
• Mount Timpanogos Wilderness
• Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
• Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness
• Twin Peaks Wilderness
• Wellsville Mountain Wilderness

Vermont

• Big Branch Wilderness
• Breadloaf Wilderness
• Bristol Cliffs Wilderness
• George D. Aiken Wilderness
• Lye Brook Wilderness
• Peru Peak Wilderness

Virginia

• Barbours Creek Wilderness
• Beartown Wilderness
• James River Face Wilderness
• Kimberling Creek Wilderness
• Lewis Fork Wilderness
• Little Dry Run Wilderness
• Little Wilson Creek Wilderness
• Mountain Lake Wilderness
• Peters Mountain Wilderness
• Priest Wilderness
• Ramseys Draft Wilderness
• Rich Hole Wilderness
• Rough Mountain Wilderness
• Saint Mary's Wilderness
• Shawvers Run Wilderness
• Shenandoah Wilderness
• Three Ridges Wilderness
• Thunder Ridge Wilderness

Washington

• Alpine Lakes Wilderness
• Boulder River Wilderness
• Buckhorn Wilderness
• Clearwater Wilderness
• Colonel Bob Wilderness
• Glacier Peak Wilderness
• Glacier View Wilderness
• Goat Rocks Wilderness
• Henry M. Jackson Wilderness
• Indian Heaven Wilderness
• Juniper Dunes Wilderness
• Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness
• Mount Adams Wilderness
• Mount Baker Wilderness
• Mount Rainier Wilderness
• Mount Skokomish Wilderness
• Noisy-Diobsud Wilderness
• Norse Peak Wilderness
• Pasayten Wilderness
• Olympic Wilderness
• Salmo-Priest Wilderness
• San Juan Wilderness
• Stephen Mather Wilderness
• Tatoosh Wilderness
• The Brothers Wilderness
• Trapper Creek Wilderness
• Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness
• Washington Islands Wilderness
• William O. Douglas Wilderness
• Wonder Mountain Wilderness

West Virginia

• Cranberry Wilderness
• Dolly Sods Wilderness
• Laurel Fork North Wilderness
• Laurel Fork South Wilderness
• Mountain Lake Wilderness
• Otter Creek Wilderness

Wisconsin

• Blackjack Springs Wilderness
• Headwaters Wilderness
• Porcupine Lake Wilderness
• Rainbow Lake Wilderness
• Whisker Lake Wilderness
• Wisconsin Islands Wilderness

Wyoming

• Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
• Bridger Wilderness
• Cloud Peak Wilderness
• Encampment River Wilderness
• Fitzpatrick Wilderness
• Gros Ventre Wilderness
• Huston Park Wilderness
• Jedediah Smith Wilderness
• North Absaroka Wilderness
• Platte River Wilderness
• Popo Agie Wilderness
• Savage Run Wilderness
• Teton Wilderness
• Washakie Wilderness
• Winegar Hole Wilderness

Related articles

• Wilderness area
• National forest
• List of U.S. National Forests
• National park
• List of U.S. National Parks
• United States National Monument
• List of miscellaneous U.S. public areas

External links

• U.S. Department of Interior webpage on wilderness areas
• U.S. Bureau of Land Management webpage on wilderness areas
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service webpage on wilderness areas
• U.S. National Park Service webpage on wilderness areas
• U.S. Forest Service webpage
• Wilderness.net's comprehensive website dedicated to wilderness areas in the United States