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The Eagletail Mountains Wilderness is part of the Eagletail Mountains of central-west
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, about 65 mi west of
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. The wilderness is of moderate size, with the Eagletail Mountains forming its northeast perimeter, and the much shorter Cemetery Ridge section, forming its southwest border. The wilderness covers nearly all of the Eagletail Mountains and the plains on its southwest. The wilderness lies at the southeast of the Ranegras Plain, the headwater region of
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, and lies adjacent to the northwest border of the extensive Gila Bend Mountains, the mountain range causing the great Gila Bend excursion of the Gila River, in
Arizona Arizona ( ; nv, Hoozdo Hahoodzo ; ood, Alĭ ṣonak ) is a state in the Southwestern United States. It is the 6th largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona is part of the Fou ...
. The Eagletail Mountains Wilderness lies in extreme southeast
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, and is also at the intersection of
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to the east, and Yuma County to the southwest.Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas, Benchmark Maps, c 1998, pp. 78–79.


Access

The Eagletail Mountains, and the wilderness parallel a slightly southeast-trending stretch of
Interstate 10 in Arizona In the U.S. state of Arizona, Interstate 10 (I‑10), the major east–west Interstate Highway in the United States Sun Belt, runs east from California, enters Arizona near the town of Ehrenberg and continues through Phoenix and Tucson a ...
. The region lies to the south; Centennial, Arizona is the closest exit, only 5 mi north. Tonopah is further east on I-10, at about 20 mi. The wilderness can be accessed from the south by unimproved roads from Hyder, about 25 mi away.


See also

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List of U.S. Wilderness Areas The National Wilderness Preservation System includes 803 wilderness areas protecting of federal land . They are managed by four agencies: *United States National Park Service (NPS) *United States Forest Service (USFS) *United States Fish and Wild ...
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List of Arizona Wilderness Areas The National Wilderness Preservation System includes 803 wilderness areas protecting of federal land . They are managed by four agencies: * United States National Park Service (NPS) *United States Forest Service (USFS) *United States Fish and Wil ...
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Wilderness Act The Wilderness Act of 1964 () was written by Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society. It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected 9.1 million acres (37,000 km²) of federal land. The result of a lon ...


References


External links


Eagletail Mountain Wilderness Area, BLM


{{authority control Protected areas of La Paz County, Arizona Protected areas of Maricopa County, Arizona Protected areas of Yuma County, Arizona Wilderness areas of Arizona IUCN Category Ib Bureau of Land Management areas in Arizona Protected areas established in the 1990s 1990s establishments in Arizona