The East Cactus Plain Wilderness is a wilderness area on the

Cactus Plain Cactus Plain is a plain east of the Colorado River and Parker Valley, in La Paz County, western Arizona, United States. Geography Cactus Plain is a landform within the Lower Colorado River Valley. It is adjacent to Bouse Wash, which is on the so ...

north of

Bouse Bouse ( ''rhymes with "house"'') is a census-designated place (CDP) and ghost town in La Paz County, Arizona, United States. Founded in 1908 as a mining camp, the economy of Bouse is now based on tourism, agriculture, and retirees. The populati ...

, Arizona. It is one of twenty-five wilderness areas located in the

Lower Colorado River Valley The Lower Colorado River Valley (LCRV) is the river region of the lower Colorado River of the southwestern United States in North America that rises in the Rocky Mountains and has its outlet at the Colorado River Delta in the northern Gulf of C ...

region, south of

Lake Mead Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in the Southwestern United States. It is located in the states of Nevada and Arizona, east of Las Vegas. It is the largest reservoir in the US in terms of water capacity. L ...

–

Hoover Dam Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on S ...

. It is administered by the

Bureau of Land Management The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering federal lands. Headquartered in Washington DC, and with oversight over , it governs one eighth of the country's ...

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East Cactus Plain Wilderness
– Wilderness.net

– BLM {{authority control Wilderness areas within the Lower Colorado River Valley Protected areas of the Mojave Desert Wilderness areas of Arizona Cactus Plain Wilderness, East Cactus Plain Wilderness, East Landforms of La Paz County, Arizona Bureau of Land Management areas in Arizona Protected areas established in 1990 1990 establishments in Arizona

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