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| x Ansel Adams Wilderness |
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The Ansel Adams Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada of California, USA. The wilderness is part of the Sierra (majority of the wilderness) and Inyo National Forests. The wilderness spans 231,533 acres (93,698 ha). Yosemite National...
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| x Desolation Wilderness |
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The Desolation Wilderness is a 63,690 acre (258 km²) federally protected wilderness area located along the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, just southwest of Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County, California, United States. It is a popular...
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| x Emigrant Wilderness |
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The Emigrant Wilderness of Stanislaus National Forest is a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, USA. It is bordered by Yosemite National Park on the south, the Toiyabe National Forest on the east, and State Route 108 on the...
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| x Snow Mountain Wilderness |
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The Snow Mountain Wilderness is a 60,076-acre federally designated wilderness area located 65 miles (105 km) north of Santa Rosa, California, USA in the Mendocino National Forest. The U.S. Congress passed the California Wilderness Act of 1984 which...
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| x Agua Tibia Wilderness |
Agua Tibia Wilderness, (Spanish for warm water) (abbreviated as ATW), is mostly contained within the Cleveland National Forest, Palomar Ranger District. It is located in Riverside County, California and San Diego County, California. The wilderness...
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| x Argus Range Wilderness |
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Nestling against the Argus Range, a thin and narrow north-south mountain chain, this Wilderness stretches for 28 miles along the west side of the Panamint Valley, just south and west of Death Valley National Park and just east of the China Lake...
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| x Big Maria Mountains Wilderness |
Big Maria Mountains Wilderness is a national wilderness area located in Riverside County, 10 miles North of Blythe, CA The terrain of the Big Maria Mountains varies from gently sloping bajadas to numerous rough, craggy peaks disjointed by steep...
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| x Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness |
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The Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness is found in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California in the United States. The wilderness lies in San Bernardino County east of the Piute Mountains along Interstate 40. The wilderness covers approximately 15...
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| x Bighorn Mountain Wilderness |
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Bighorn Mountain Wilderness is a national wilderness area located 70 miles north of Palm Springs, California. The rugged Bighorn Mountains in the north central portion of this wilderness are the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains. Visitors...
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| x Black Mountain Wilderness |
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Black Mountain Wilderness is a national wilderness area located 13 miles northwest of Barstow, California. The Black Mountain Wilderness is a volcanic flow and mesa with a deposit of fine grained dune sand in the southeast corner. Elevations range...
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| x Bright Star Wilderness |
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Bright Star Wilderness is a 9,520-acre wilderness area in Kern County in the U.S. state of California.
The California Desert Protection Act of 1994 (Public Law 103-433) added the wilderness to the National Wilderness Preservation System and it is...
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| x Bristol Mountains Wilderness | ||
| x Bucks Lake Wilderness |
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The Bucks Lake Wilderness is a 23,958-acre (97.0 km) wilderness area located in the Plumas National Forest in northeastern California in the United States. The wilderness lies in Plumas County south of Lake Almanor. It protects the northernmost end...
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| x Cache Creek Wilderness |
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The Cache Creek Wilderness is a 27,245-acre wilderness area located in Lake County, California. The wilderness was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System when the United States Congress passed the Northern California Coastal Wild...
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| x Cadiz Dunes Wilderness | ||
| x Caribou Wilderness |
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The Caribou Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area created by the Wilderness Act of 1964 and is part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. It is located 60 miles (97 km) east of Redding in the state of California, USA. The...
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| x Carrizo Gorge Wilderness | ||
| x Carson-Iceberg Wilderness |
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The Carson-Iceberg Wilderness is a federal wilderness area located 80 miles (130 km) northeast of Stockton, California. It encompasses 160,000 acres (650 km) and was designated by the California Wilderness Act of 1984. It protects an area of High...
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| x Castle Crags Wilderness |
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The Castle Crags Wilderness is a 12,232-acre (49.50 km) wilderness area located 40 miles north of Redding, California within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. The US Congress passsd the California Wilderness Act in 1984 which set aside the...
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| x Cedar Roughs Wilderness | ||
| x Chanchelulla Wilderness | ||
| x Chemehuevi Mountains Wilderness | ||
| x Chimney Peak Wilderness |
The Chimney Peak Wilderness is a 13,134-acre wilderness area located 20 miles northwest of Ridgecrest, in southeastern Tulare County, California. The 1994 California Desert Protection Act (Public Law 103-433) created the wilderness and it is...
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| x Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness | ||
| x Chumash Wilderness |
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The Chumash Wilderness is a wilderness area in the mountains of northern Ventura County and southwestern Kern County in California, USA. It is completely within the Los Padres National Forest, and includes most of the highest terrain in Ventura...
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| x Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness |
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The Cleghorn Lakes Wilderness ia a 33,475-acre wilderness area located 16 miles northeast of Twentynine Palms, California.
Named for the dry lakes found at the center of the wilderness, this area has a variety of natural resources. The east portion...
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| x Clipper Mountain Wilderness | ||
| x Coso Range Wilderness | ||
| x Coyote Mountains Wilderness (CA) | ||
| x Cucamonga Wilderness | ||
| x Darwin Falls Wilderness |
The Darwin Falls Wilderness is a wilderness area and part of the National Wilderness Preservation System established by the California Desert Protection Act (Public Law 103-433) and managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The wilderness was...
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| x Dead Mountains Wilderness | ||
| x Death Valley Wilderness | ||
| x Dick Smith Wilderness |
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The Dick Smith Wilderness is a wilderness area in the mountains of eastern Santa Barbara County, California, USA, with a portion in Ventura County. It is completely contained within the Los Padres National Forest, and is northeast of the city of...
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| x Dinkey Lakes Wilderness |
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The Dinkey Lakes Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located 45 miles (72 km) northeast of Fresno, in the state of California, USA. It comprises 30,000 acres (120 km) within the Sierra National Forest and was added to the National...
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| x Dome Land Wilderness |
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The Domeland Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located 55 miles (89 km) northeast of Bakersfield, California USA. It encompasses 130,081 acres (526.42 km), is jointly managed by the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land...
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| x El Paso Mountains Wilderness |
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The El Paso Mountains Wilderness was created in 1994 and now has a total of 23,780 acres. All of the wilderness is in Kern County, California and is managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
The Wilderness contains numerous reddish-colored buttes...
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| x Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness |
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The Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness is located about 25 miles west of Brawley, California and southeast of the Vallecito Mountains in the United States. The wilderness is located in the Fish Creek Mountains region in the northern part of the Carrizo...
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| x Funeral Mountains Wilderness | ||
| x Garcia Wilderness |
The Garcia Wilderness is a 14,100-acre wilderness area within the Los Padres National Forest in Central California, San Luis Obispo County. It is one of several areas set aside by the United States Congress in 1992 with passage of the Los Padres...
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| x Golden Trout Wilderness |
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The Golden Trout Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located 40 miles (64 km) east of Visalia, California within Inyo National Forest and Sequoia National Forest. It is 303,511 acres (1,228.3 km) in size and was created by the US...
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| x Golden Valley Wilderness | ||
| x Granite Chief Wilderness Area |
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The Granite Chief Wilderness is a 19,048 acre (77 km²) federally designated wilderness area of the Tahoe National Forest. Created by the California Wilderness Act of 1984, it is located in the Sierra Nevada mountains west of Lake Tahoe in California...
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| x Grass Valley Wilderness | ||
| x Hauser Wilderness | ||
| x Havasu Wilderness |
Havasu Wilderness is a 17,801-acre (72 km) wilderness area located within the Havasu National Wildlife Refuge near Lake Havasu in the U.S. states of Arizona and California. 14,606 acres (59 km) are located in Arizona and 3,195 acres (13 km) are...
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| x Hollow Hills Wilderness | ||
| x Hoover Wilderness |
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The Hoover Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Inyo and Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forests. It lies to the east of the crest of the central Sierra Nevada in California, to the north and east of Yosemite National Park. The headwaters of the East...
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| x Ibex Wilderness | ||
| x Imperial Refuge Wilderness | ||
| x Indian Pass Wilderness |
The Indian Pass Wilderness is a 32,008-acre (130 km²) wilderness area under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management. The wilderness is found in the extreme southeastern part of the Chocolate Mountains, in the southeastern part of...
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| x Inyo Mountains Wilderness | ||
| x Ishi Wilderness |
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The Ishi Wilderness of Lassen National Forest in the Shasta Cascade foothills of northern California, is approximately twenty miles east of Red Bluff, California, USA. The Ishi Wilderness is a unique 41,339-acre, low-elevation wilderness created...
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| x Jacumba Wilderness | ||
| x Jennie Lakes Wilderness |
Jennie Lakes Wilderness is a protected area of about nine square miles in Sequoia National Forest that was established by the California Wilderness Act of 1984 and added to the National Wilderness Preservation System.
It is located 60 miles (97 km)...
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| x John Muir Wilderness |
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The John Muir Wilderness is a wilderness area that extends along the crest of the Sierra Nevada of California, USA for 90 miles (140 km), in the Inyo and Sierra National Forests.Established in 1964 by the Wilderness Act and named for naturalist John...
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| x Joshua Tree Wilderness | ||
| x Kaiser Wilderness |
The Kaiser Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness protected area located 70 miles (110 km) northeast of Fresno in the state of California, USA. It was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System by the United States Congress on...
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| x Kelso Dunes Wilderness | ||
| x Kiavah Wilderness |
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The Kiavah Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area located 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Bakersfield, California, United States. It was created in 1994 with the passage of the California Desert Protection Act (Public Law 103-433), is...
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