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The Emigrant Wilderness of Stanislaus National Forest is a formally designated wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada. It is bordered by Yosemite National Park on the south, the Toiyabe National Forest and the Hoover Wilderness on the east, and State Route 108 over Sonora Pass on the north. It is an elongated area that extends northeast about 25 ...
There are 149 wilderness areas in California totaling just over 15,000,000 acres (61,000 km 2). [9] The largest is Death Valley Wilderness at 3,055,413 acres (12,364.82 km 2), the largest federally designated wilderness in the continental United States, and the smallest is the Rocks and Islands Wilderness at 19 acres (77,000 m 2).
U.S. Forest Service. The Ansel Adams Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada of California, United States. The wilderness spans 231,533 acres (93,698 ha); 33.9% of the territory lies in the Inyo National Forest, 65.8% is in the Sierra National Forest, and the remaining 0.3% covers nearly all of Devils Postpile National Monument. [1 ...
The San Jacinto Wildlife Area (WA) is a 20,126-acre (8,145 ha; 31.447 sq mi) wildlife preserve in the Inland Empire region of California in the United States managed by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. [2] San Jacinto WA is made of up two discontinuous areas, one east of California State Route 79 called the Potrero Unit, and one ...
Bureau of Land Management. The Cache Creek Wilderness is a 27,245-acre (11,026 ha) [1] 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 Heritage Wilderness Act in 2006 (Public Law 109-362).
Sespe Wilderness. The Sespe Wilderness is a 219,700-acre (88,900 ha) wilderness area in the eastern Topatopa Mountains and southern Sierra Pelona Mountains, within the Los Padres National Forest (LPNF), in Ventura County, Southern California. The wilderness area is primarily located within the Ojai and Mt. Pinos ranger districts of the LPNF.
South Warner Wilderness. The South Warner Wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area 12 miles (19 km) east of Alturas, California, United States. It encompasses more than 70,000 acres (283 km 2) of the Warner Mountains. It is within the Modoc National Forest and managed by the US Forest Service. Elevations range from 5,000 feet (1,500 ...
The Santa Rosa Wilderness is a 72,259-acre (292.42 km 2) wilderness area in Southern California, in the Santa Rosa Mountains of Riverside and San Diego counties, California. It is in the Colorado Desert section of the Sonoran Desert, above the Coachella Valley and Lower Colorado River Valley regions in a Peninsular Range, between La Quinta to ...