The United States Congress designated the Fitzpatrick Wilderness in 1976 and it now has a total of 198,525 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Wyoming and is managed by the Forest Service. The Fitzpatrick Wilderness is bordered by the Bridger Wilderness to the southwest. (more…)

The Wilderness Act of 1964 gave a legal definition of wilderness in the United States:

“A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.”

The passage of the Act established the National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) to protect the then 9 million acres of federal land officially recognized as U.S. wilderness.

Wilderness Areas D – F

D

            • Dark Canyon Wilderness

            • Darwin Falls Wilderness

            • Dead Mountains Wilderness

            • Death Valley Wilderness

            • Deep Creek North Wilderness

            • Deep Creek Wilderness

            • Delamar Mountains Wilderness

            • Delirium Wilderness

            • Denali Wilderness

            • Deseret Peak Wilderness

            • Desolation Wilderness

            • Devils Backbone Wilderness

            • Diamond Peak Wilderness

            • Dick Smith Wilderness

            • Dinkey Lakes Wilderness

            • Doc’s Pass Wilderness

            • Dolly Sods Wilderness

            • Dome Wilderness

            • Domeland Wilderness

            • Dominguez Canyon Wilderness

            • Dos Cabezas Mountains Wilderness

            • Drift Creek Wilderness

            • Dry Creek Wilderness

E

            • Eagle Cap Wilderness

            • Eagles Nest Wilderness

            • Eagletail Mountains Wilderness

            • East Cactus Plain Wilderness

            • East Fork High Rock Canyon Wilderness

            • East Fork Wilderness

            • East Humboldts Wilderness

            • El Paso Mountains Wilderness

            • El Toro Wilderness

            • Eldorado Wilderness

            • Elkhorn Ridge Wilderness

            • Ellicott Rock Wilderness

            • Emigrant Wilderness

            • Endicott River Wilderness

            • Escudilla Wilderness

F

            • Far South Egans Wilderness

            • Farallon Wilderness

            • Fish Creek Mountains Wilderness

            • Fishhooks Wilderness

            • Flat Tops Wilderness

            • Flatside Wilderness

            • Florida Keys Wilderness

            • Forrester Island Wilderness

            • Fort Niobrara Wilderness

            • Fortification Range Wilderness

            • Fossil Ridge Wilderness

            • Fossil Springs Wilderness

            • Four Peaks Wilderness

            • Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness

            • Funeral Mountains Wilderness

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Dugger Mountain Wilderness Area

Designated in 1999, the 9,200 acres of Dugger Mountain Wilderness are in Talladega National Forest in eastern Alabama. At 2,140′, Dugger Mountain is the second highest peak in Alabama. This area is so rugged that the forest is virgin growth: the hills were too steep for the timber to be harvested.

Encampment River Wilderness Area

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 canyon lies Wyoming’s smallest Wilderness, approximately 16 square miles, a strip less than one mile wide in the southern portion that widens to about five miles near the northern boundary. This is known as the Encampment River Wilderness Area.

Fitzpatrick Wilderness Area

The United States Congress designated the Fitzpatrick Wilderness in 1976 and it now has a total of 198,525 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Wyoming and is managed by the Forest Service. The Fitzpatrick Wilderness is bordered by the Bridger Wilderness to the southwest.