Wilderness Press is a publisher of outdoor guidebooks and maps that was founded in

Berkeley, California Berkeley ( ) is a city on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California, United States. It is named after the 18th-century Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley. It borders the cities of Oakland and E ...

in 1967. Its first publication was ''Sierra North'' (1967/2005). Reissued in 2005, this is considered the authoritative guidebook for hikers and backpackers in the Northern

Sierra Nevada The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primar ...

. Since the debut of ''Sierra North'' in 1967, Wilderness Press has become well known for its outdoor titles, guidebooks, and maps.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=RDwuAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WNcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=997,5780000&dq=wilderness-press&hl=en It has been owned by Keen Communications since 2008, and headquarters have moved to

Birmingham, Alabama Birmingham ( ) is a city in the north central region of the U.S. state of Alabama. Birmingham is the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama's most populous county. As of the 2021 census estimates, Birmingham had a population of 197,575, down 1% f ...

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