The Greenhorn Mountain Wilderness is a

U.S. Wilderness Area The National Wilderness Preservation System (NWPS) of the United States protects federally managed wilderness areas designated for preservation in their natural condition. Activity on formally designated wilderness areas is coordinated by the Na ...

located northwest of Walsenburg, Colorado in the San Isabel and

Pike Pike, Pikes or The Pike may refer to: Fish * Blue pike or blue walleye, an extinct color morph of the yellow walleye ''Sander vitreus'' * Ctenoluciidae, the "pike characins", some species of which are commonly known as pikes * ''Esox'', genus of ...

National Forests A state forest or national forest is a forest that is administered or protected by some agency of a sovereign state, sovereign or federated state, or territory (country subdivision), territory. Background The precise application of the terms va ...

. The wilderness area includes the summit of Greenhorn Mountain, the highest point in the

Wet Mountains The Wet Mountains are a small mountain range in southern Colorado, named for the amount of snow they receive in the winter as compared to the dried Great Plains to the east. They are a sub-range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, in the southern R ...

of Colorado. There are of trails, all in the northern half of the wilderness.

References

Wilderness areas of Colorado Protected areas established in 1993 Protected areas of Huerfano County, Colorado Protected areas of Pueblo County, Colorado San Isabel National Forest Pike National Forest 1993 establishments in Colorado {{Colorado-protected-area-stub