List of

wilderness area Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural), are natural environments on Earth that have not been significantly modified by human activity or any nonurbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation. The term has traditionally re ...

s designated by

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state and tribal governments. Eight states had designated wilderness programs in 2002 while some other states had designated wildernesses. In 2002, the 9 state programs had 74 wilderness areas with a total protected area of 2,668,903 acres (10,800.7 km²). Florida had 10 wilderness areas until their authorizing legislation was repealed in 1989. For federally designated wildernesses, see

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 ...

. There are also privately owned areas called wildernesses like the

Nature Conservancy The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is a global environmental organization headquartered in Arlington, Virginia. it works via affiliates or branches in 79 countries and territories, as well as across every state in the US. Founded in 1951, The Nat ...

's 12,000 acre (49 km²) Disney Wilderness Preserve in

Florida Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...

State wildernesses

Alaska

3 areas in 2002, total area 922,700 acres (3734 km²)

California

10 areas in 2002, total area 466,320 acres (1887 km²) * Boney Mountains State Wilderness Area * Mount San Jacinto State Wilderness Area * Henry W. Coe State Wilderness (unofficially called the Orestimba Wilderness) * Santa Rosa Mountains State Wilderness Area * Sinkyone Wilderness State Park * West Waddell Creek State Wilderness Area

Hawaii

* Alakai Wilderness Preserve - 9,000 acres (36 km²)

Maine

Allagash Wilderness Waterway The Allagash Wilderness Waterway is a protected area extending from Aroostook County, Maine into Piscataquis County, Maine. It is a ribbon of lakes, ponds, rivers, and streams of the Maine North Woods that includes much of the Allagash River T ...

Maryland

29 areas in 2009, total area 43,773 acres (177 km²)

Michigan

1 area in 2002, total area 40,808 acres (165 km²)

Minnesota

*state land within the

Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW or BWCA) is a wilderness area within the Superior National Forest in the northeastern part of the US state of Minnesota under the administration of the U.S. Forest Service. A mixture of forests ...

Missouri

11 areas in 2002, total area 22,993 acres (93 km²)

New York

21 areas in 2002, total area 1,170,312 acres (4,736 km²)

Adirondack Park The Adirondack Park is a part of Forest Preserve (New York), New York's Forest Preserve in northeastern New York (state), New York, United States. The park was established in 1892 for “the free use of all the people for their health and pleasur ...

: * Blue Ridge Wilderness Area - 45,736 acres (185.09 km²) *

Dix Mountain Wilderness Area The Dix Mountain Wilderness Area is the name previously given to an area of New York's Forest Preserve in the Adirondack Park , and is located in the towns of Elizabethtown, Keene and North Hudson, Essex County. It is roughly bounded on the n ...

- 45,208 acres (182.95 km²) *

Five Ponds Wilderness Area The Five Ponds Wilderness Area, an Adirondack Park unit of New York's Forest Preserve, is located in the towns of Fine and Clifton in St. Lawrence County, the town of Webb in Herkimer County and the town of Long Lake in Hamilton County. It inc ...

- 117,978 acres (447.440 km²) *

Giant Mountain Wilderness Area The Giant Mountain Wilderness Area, an Adirondack Park unit of New York's Forest Preserve, lies in Essex County, New York, in the towns of Elizabethtown and Keene. It is roughly bounded by NY 9N on the north, NY 73 on the west and south and ...

- 22,768 acres (92.139 km²) *

Ha-De-Ron-Dah Wilderness Area The Ha-De-Ron-Dah Wilderness Area, an Adirondack Park unit of New York's Forest Preserve, is located in the town of Webb, Herkimer County, and the Town of Greig, Lewis County. It is bounded on the north by private lands in the vicinity of Nor ...

- 26,528 acres (107.36 km²) *

High Peaks Wilderness Area The High Peaks Wilderness Area, the largest Forest Preserve unit in the U.S. state of New York, is located in three counties and six towns in the Adirondack Park: Harrietstown in Franklin County, North Elba, Keene, North Hudson and Newcom ...

- 192,685 acres (779.769 km²) (part of High Peaks Wilderness Complex - 226,435 acres (916.74 km²)) * Hoffman Notch Wilderness Area - 36,231 acres (146.62 km²) * Jay Mountain Wilderness Area - 7,100 acres (28.73 km²) *

McKenzie Mountain Wilderness Area The McKenzie Mountain Wilderness Area, an Adirondack Park unit of the Forest Preserve, lies in western Essex County in the towns of St. Armand, North Elba and Wilmington. In general, the Saranac River and Franklin Falls Pond border on the nort ...

- 37,616 acres (152.23 km²) * Pepperbox Wilderness Area - 22,560 acres (91.300 km²) * Pharaoh Lake Wilderness Area - 45,883 acres (185.68 km²) * Pigeon Lake Wilderness Area - 50,100 acres (202.75 km²) *

Saint Regis Canoe Area The Saint Regis Canoe Area in Adirondack Park is the largest wilderness canoe area in the Northeastern United States and the only designated canoe area in New York state. It is closed to motorized vehicles. Among the 50 ponds (small lakes) and lak ...

- 18,231 acres (73.778 km²) *

Sentinel Range Wilderness Area The Sentinel Range Wilderness Area, an Adirondack Park unit of New York's Forest Preserve, is located in the towns of Wilmington, North Elba and Keene, Essex County. It is bounded by NY 86 on the north, NY 73 on the south, and private lands ...

- 23,252 acres (94.098 km²) *

Siamese Ponds Wilderness Area The Siamese Ponds Wilderness Area, an Adirondack Park unit of the Forest Preserve, is located in the towns of Lake Pleasant, Wells and Indian Lake in Hamilton County and the towns of Johnsburg and Thurman in Warren County. It is one of the l ...

- 112,524 acres (455.368 km²) *

Silver Lake Wilderness Area The Silver Lake Wilderness Area, an Adirondack Park unit of the Forest Preserve, is located in the towns of Lake Pleasant, Benson, Wells and Arietta in Hamilton County and is roughly bounded on the north by NY 8 and private lands near Pisec ...

- 105,270 acres (426.013 km²) *

West Canada Lake Wilderness Area The West Canada Lake Wilderness Area is an Adirondack Park Forest Preserve (New York), Forest Preserve management unit in the New York (state), State of New York, United States, USA. The area contains 168 bodies of water covering , of trail, f ...

- 156,695 acres (634.122 km²) *

William C. Whitney Wilderness Area The William C. Whitney Wilderness Area, an Adirondack Park unit of New York's Forest Preserve, is located in the town of Long Lake, Hamilton County. It is bounded on the east by Hamilton County Route 10, on the south by lands of Whitney Industr ...

- 20,500 acres (83 km²)

Catskill Park The Catskill Park is in the Catskill Mountains in New York in the United States. It consists of of land inside a Blue Line in four counties: Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, and Ulster. As of 2005, or 41 percent of the land within, is owned by ...

: * Slide Mountain Wilderness Area 47,500 acres (190 km²) * Big Indian-Beaverkill Wilderness Area 33,000 acres (132 km²) * Indian Head Wilderness Area 16,800 acres (67.2 km²) * West Kill Wilderness Area 19,250 acres (77 km²) ''(A proposed revision to the Catskill State Land Master Plan would upgrade two other management units in the Catskills from wild forest to wilderness status and transfer some land currently considered wild forest to existing wilderness areas)

South Carolina

* Mountain Bridge Wilderness

Tennessee

* Bridgestone/Firestone Centennial Wilderness - 10,000 acres (40 km²)

Wisconsin

1 area in 2002, total area 6,358 acres (2.6 km² )

Tribal wildernesses

Flathead Indian Reservation The Flathead Indian Reservation, located in western Montana on the Flathead River, is home to the Bitterroot Salish, Kootenai, and Pend d'Oreilles tribes – also known as the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation. The ...
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Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...
)

* Mission Mountains Tribal Wilderness

Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission The Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) is an intertribal, co-management agency committed to the implementation of off-reservation treaty rights on behalf of its eleven-member Ojibwa tribes. Formed in 1984 and exercising authorit ...

consisting of 11 Ojibwa tribes:

Bay Mills Indian Community The Bay Mills Indian Community (BMIC) (Ojibwe: Gnoozhekaaning, lit. "Place of the Pike"), is an Indian reservation forming the land base of one of the many federally recognized Sault Ste. Marie bands of Chippewa (aka Ojibwa). The largest section ...

Keweenaw Bay Indian Community The L'Anse Indian Reservation is the land base of the federally recognized Keweenaw Bay Indian Community ( oj, Gakiiwe’onaning) of the historic Lake Superior Band of Chippewa Indians. (The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community was defined in 1934 by ...

and

Lac Vieux Desert Lac Vieux Desert is a lake in the United States divided between Gogebic County, Michigan, and Vilas County, Wisconsin. Fed primarily by springs in the surrounding swamps, it is the source of the Wisconsin River, which flows out of its southwest c ...

band in

Michigan Michigan () is a U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, upper Midwestern United States. With a population of nearly 10.12 million and an area of nearly , Michigan is the List of U.S. states and ...

; Bad River,

Lac Courte Oreilles Lac Courte Oreilles ( ) is a large freshwater lake located in northwest Wisconsin in Sawyer County in townships 39 and 40 north, ranges 8 and 9 west. It is irregular in shape, having numerous peninsulas and bays, and is approximately six miles l ...

, Lac du Flambeau,

Sokaogon Chippewa Community The Sokaogon Chippewa Community, or the Mole Lake Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, is a federally recognized tribe of the Lake Superior Chippewa, many of whom reside on the Mole Lake Indian Reservation, located southwest of the city of Crandon, ...

, Red Cliff and

St. Croix Saint Croix; nl, Sint-Kruis; french: link=no, Sainte-Croix; Danish and no, Sankt Croix, Taino: ''Ay Ay'' ( ) is an island in the Caribbean Sea, and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincor ...

bands in

Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most populous. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake M ...

; and Fond du Lac and Mille Lacs bands in

Minnesota Minnesota () is a state in the upper midwestern region of the United States. It is the 12th largest U.S. state in area and the 22nd most populous, with over 5.75 million residents. Minnesota is home to western prairies, now given over to ...

. *in Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest,

**Blackjack Springs **Headwaters **Porcupine Lake **Rainbow **Whisker Lake * in

Ottawa National Forest The Ottawa National Forest is a national forest that covers in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It includes much of Gogebic and Ontonagon counties, as well as slices of Iron, Houghton, Baraga, and Marquette counties. The ...

**McCormick **Sturgeon River Gorge ** Sylvania * in

Hiawatha National Forest Hiawatha National Forest is a National Forest in the Upper Peninsula of the state of Michigan in the United States. Commercial logging is conducted in some areas. The United States Forest Service administers this National Forest; it is physical ...

**Big Island Lake **Delirium **Horseshoe Bay **Mackinac **Rock River Canyon ** Round Island *in Huron-Manistee National Forest,

** Nordhouse Dunes

External links

2002 survey of state wilderness areas
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Wilderness Areas Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural), are natural environments on Earth that have not been significantly modified by human activity or any nonurbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation. The term has traditionally re ...

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