Several summits in the North Absaroka Wilderness rise above 10,000 feet with the highest point on Dead Indian Peak at 12,216 feet. The United States Congress designated this a wilderness area in 1964 and it now has a total of 350,488 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Wyoming and is managed by the Forest Service. (more…)

The 109 million acres of Wilderness Areas in the United States are less than five percent (4.82%) of the total U.S. land base, and when you factor out Alaskan wilderness, it’s just two percent of the lower 48 states.

Wilderness areas represent 46 percent of the Earth’s land surface, but are occupied by just 2.4 percent of the world’s population, excluding urban centers. Nine of those major wilderness areas fall, at least in part, within the United States.

Wilderness Areas M – O

M

  • Machesna Mountain Wilderness
  • Mackinac Wilderness
  • Magic Mountain Wilderness
  • Malpais Mesa Wilderness
  • Manly Peak Wilderness
  • Manzano Mountain Wilderness
  • Marble Mountain Wilderness
  • Marjory Stoneman Douglas Wilderness
  • Mark O. Hatfield Wilderness
  • Mark Trail Wilderness
  • Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness
  • Matilija Wilderness
  • Maurille Islands Wilderness
  • Mazatzal Wilderness
  • McCormick Wilderness
  • Meadow Valley Range Wilderness
  • Mecca Hills Wilderness
  • Medicine Lake Wilderness
  • Menagerie Wilderness
  • Mesa Verde Wilderness
  • Mesquite Wilderness
  • Michigan Islands Wilderness
  • Middle Prong Wilderness
  • Middle Santiam Wilderness
  • Mill Creek Wilderness
  • Miller Peak Wilderness
  • Mingo Wilderness
  • Mission Mountains Wilderness
  • Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness
  • Mojave Wilderness
  • Mokelumne Wilderness
  • Mollie Beattie Wilderness
  • Monarch Wilderness
  • Monomoy Wilderness
  • Monument Rock Wilderness
  • Moosehorn (Baring Unit) Wilderness
  • Moosehorn Wilderness
  • Mormon Mountains Wilderness
  • Mount Adams Wilderness
  • Mount Baker Wilderness
  • Mount Baldy Wilderness
  • Mount Evans Wilderness
  • Mount Grafton Wilderness
  • Mount Hood Wilderness
  • Mount Jefferson Wilderness
  • Mount Lassic Wilderness
  • Mount Logan Wilderness
  • Mount Massive Wilderness
  • Mount Naomi Wilderness
  • Mount Nebo Wilderness
  • Mount Nutt Wilderness
  • Mount Olympus Wilderness
  • Mount Rainier Wilderness
  • Mount Skokomish Wilderness
  • Mount Sneffels Wilderness
  • Mount Thielsen Wilderness
  • Mount Timpanogos Wilderness
  • Mount Tipton Wilderness
  • Mount Trumbull Wilderness
  • Mount Washington Wilderness
  • Mount Wilson Wilderness
  • Mount Zirkel Wilderness
  • Mountain Lake Wilderness
  • Mountain Lakes Wilderness
  • Mt. Charleston Wilderness
  • Mt. Irish Wilderness
  • Mt. Moriah Wilderness
  • Mt. Rose Wilderness
  • Mt. Shasta Wilderness
  • Mt. Wrightson Wilderness
  • Mud Swamp/New River Wilderness
  • Muddy Mountains Wilderness
  • Muggins Mountain Wilderness
  • Munds Mountain Wilderness

N

  • Needle’s Eye Wilderness
  • Nellis Wash Wilderness
  • Neota Wilderness
  • Never Summer Wilderness
  • New Water Mountains Wilderness
  • Newberry Mountains Wilderness
  • Noatak Wilderness
  • Noisy-Diobsud Wilderness
  • Nopah Range Wilderness
  • Nordhouse Dunes Wilderness
  • Norse Peak Wilderness
  • North Absaroka Wilderness
  • North Algodones Dunes Wilderness
  • North Black Rock Range Wilderness
  • North Fork John Day Wilderness
  • North Fork Owyhee Wilderness
  • North Fork Umatilla Wilderness
  • North Fork Wilderness
  • North Jackson Mountains Wilderness
  • North Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
  • North McCullough Wilderness
  • North Mesquite Mountains Wilderness
  • North Santa Teresa Wilderness
  • Nunivak Wilderness

O

  • Ojito Wilderness
  • Okefenokee Wilderness
  • Old Woman Mountains Wilderness
  • Olympic Wilderness
  • Opal Creek Wilderness
  • Oregon Badlands Wilderness
  • Oregon Islands Wilderness
  • Organ Pipe Cactus Wilderness
  • Orocopia Mountains Wilderness
  • Otay Mountain Wilderness
  • Otis Pike Fire Island High Dune Wilderness
  • Otter Creek Wilderness
  • Owens Peak Wilderness
  • Owens River Headwaters Wilderness
  • Owyhee River Wilderness

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Moosehorn Wilderness

Moosehorn Wilderness Area is an interesting place. It is part of the Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge, and is broken up into two separate units, one in the Baring Unit and the other in the Edmunds Unit.

North Absaroka Wilderness

Several summits in the North Absaroka Wilderness rise above 10,000 feet with the highest point on Dead Indian Peak at 12,216 feet. The United States Congress designated this a wilderness area in 1964 and it now has a total of 350,488 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Wyoming and is managed by the Forest Service.