National Wilderness Areas in California
A view from Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park
There's a lot of wilderness in California and it's a mix of Bureau of Land Management, US Forest Service, US Fish & Wildlife Service and National Park Service properties.
National Wilderness Areas in California
- Agua Tibia Wilderness
- Ansel Adams Wilderness
- Argus Range Wilderness
- Beauty Mountain Wilderness
- Big Maria Mountains Wilderness
- Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness
- Bighorn Mountain Wilderness
- Black Mountain Wilderness
- Bright Star Wilderness
- Bristol Mountains Wilderness
- Bucks Lake Wilderness
- Cache Creek Wilderness
- Cadiz Dunes Wilderness
- Cahuilla Mountain Wilderness
- Caribou Wilderness
- Carrizo Gorge Wilderness
- Carson-Iceberg Wilderness
- Castle Crags Wilderness
- Cedar Roughs 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
- Granite Mountain Wilderness
- Grass Valley Wilderness
- Hain 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 Krebs Wilderness
- John Muir Wilderness
- Joshua Tree Wilderness
- Kaiser Wilderness
- Kelso Dunes Wilderness
- Kiavah Wilderness
- King Range Wilderness
- Kingston Range Wilderness
- Lassen Volcanic Wilderness
- Lava Beds Wilderness
- Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness
- Little Picacho Wilderness
- Machesna Mountain Wilderness
- Magic Mountain Wilderness
- Malpais Mesa Wilderness
- Manly Peak Wilderness
- Marble Mountain Wilderness
- Matilija Wilderness
- Mecca Hills Wilderness
- Mesquite Wilderness
- Mojave Wilderness
- Mokelumne Wilderness
- Monarch Wilderness
- Mount Lassic Wilderness
- Mount 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
- Owens River Headwaters Wilderness
- Pahrump Valley Wilderness
- Palen/McCoy Wilderness
- Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness
- Phillip Burton Wilderness
- Picacho Peak Wilderness
- Pine Creek Wilderness
- Pinto Mountains Wilderness
- Piper Mountain Wilderness
- Piute Mountains Wilderness
- Pleasant View Ridge Wilderness
- Red Buttes Wilderness
- Resting Spring Range Wilderness
- Rice Valley Wilderness
- Riverside Mountains Wilderness
- Rocks and Islands 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
- Sanhedrin 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 Fork Eel River Wilderness
- South Fork San Jacinto 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
- White Mountains Wilderness
- Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness
- Yosemite Wilderness
- Yuki Wilderness
The South Face of Preston Peak, Siskiyou Wilderness
Upper photo courtesy of Phil Armitage
Lower photo courtesy of Mike Kauffmann, CCA 3.0 License
Lower photo courtesy of Mike Kauffmann, CCA 3.0 License