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Four federal agencies of the United States government administer the U.S. Wilderness Areas, which includes 680 wilderness areas and 105,695,176 acres (427,733 km², or 165,149 mi²). These agencies are:
This is an area larger than the state of California or Iraq. In Alaska, there are 58,182,216 acres (235,455 km²) of wilderness. This represents about 56% of the wilderness area in the United States. The National Park Service (NPS) has oversight of 44 million acres (180,000 km²) of wilderness at 47 locations. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has responsibility for nearly 21 million acres (85,000 km²) in 71 areas. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oversees more than 6.5 million acres (26,000 km²) at 177 unique sites. The Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Forest Service oversees nearly 35 million acres (142,000 km²) of wilderness areas in 407 areas. Some wilderness areas are managed by multiple agencies, so the above totals exceed the actual number of units (680) in the system. In addition, some of the 47 NPS areas with wilderness have multiple units designated as such (for example, Lake Mead National Recreation Area).
Some areas are designated wilderness by state or tribal governments. These are not federal parks. See List of U.S. state and tribal wilderness areas.
[edit] Wilderness Areas by State
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- Karta River Wilderness
- Katmai Wilderness
- Kenai Wilderness
- Kobuk Valley Wilderness
- Kootznoowoo Wilderness
- Koyukuk Wilderness
- Kuiu Wilderness
- Lake Clark Wilderness
- Maurille Islands Wilderness
- Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness
- Mollie Beattie Wilderness
- Noatak Wilderness
- Nunivak Wilderness
- Petersburg Creek-Duncan Salt Chuck Wilderness
- Pleasant/Lemusurier/Inian Islands Wilderness
- Russell Fjord Wilderness
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- Saint Lazaria Wilderness
- Selawik Wilderness
- Semidi Wilderness
- Simeonof Wilderness
- South Baranof Wilderness
- South Etolin Wilderness
- South Prince of Wales Wilderness
- Stikine-LeConte Wilderness
- Tebenkof Bay Wilderness
- Togiak Wilderness
- Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness
- Tuxedni Wilderness
- Unimak Wilderness
- Warren Island Wilderness
- West Chichagof-Yakobi Wilderness
- Wrangell-Saint Elias Wilderness
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- Apache Creek Wilderness
- Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness
- Arrastra Mountains Wilderness
- Aubrey Peak Wilderness
- Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
- Bear Wallow Wilderness
- Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
- Big Horn Mountains Wilderness
- Cabeza Prieta Wilderness
- Castle Creek Wilderness
- Cedar Branch Wilderness
- Chiricahua National Monument Wilderness
- Chiricahua Wilderness
- Cottonwood Point Wilderness
- Coyote Mountains Wilderness
- Dos Cabezas Mountains Wilderness
- Eagletail Mountains Wilderness
- East Cactus Plain Wilderness
- Escudilla Wilderness
- Fishhooks Wilderness
- Fossil Springs Wilderness
- Four Peaks Wilderness
- Galiuro Wilderness
- Gibraltar Mountain Wilderness
- Grand Wash Cliffs Wilderness
- Granite Mountain Wilderness
- Harcurvar Mountains Wilderness
- Harquahala Mountains Wilderness
- Hassayampa River Canyon Wilderness
- Havasu Wilderness
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- Hells Canyon Wilderness (Arizona)
- Hellsgate Wilderness
- Hummingbird Springs Wilderness
- Imperial Refuge Wilderness
- Juniper Mesa Wilderness
- Kachina Peaks Wilderness
- Kanab Creek Wilderness
- Kendrick Mountain Wilderness
- Kofa Wilderness
- Mazatzal Wilderness
- Miller Peak Wilderness
- Mount Baldy Wilderness
- Mount Logan Wilderness
- Mount Nutt Wilderness
- Mount Tipton Wilderness
- Mount Trumbull Wilderness
- Mount Wilson Wilderness
- Mount Wrightson Wilderness
- Muggins Mountain Wilderness
- Munds Mountain Wilderness
- Needle's Eye Wilderness
- New Water Mountains Wilderness
- North Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
- North Santa Teresa Wilderness
- Organ Pipe Cactus Wilderness
- Paiute Wilderness
- Pajarita Wilderness
- Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
- Peloncillo Mountains Wilderness
- Petrified Forest National Park
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- Dry Creek Wilderness
- East Fork Wilderness
- Flatside Wilderness
- Hurricane Creek Wilderness
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- Leatherwood Wilderness
- Poteau Mountain Wilderness
- Richland Creek Wilderness
- Upper Buffalo Wilderness
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- Hollow Hills Wilderness
- Hoover Wilderness
- Ibex Wilderness
- Imperial Refuge Wilderness
- Indian Pass Wilderness
- Inyo Mountains Wilderness
- Ishi Wilderness
- Jacumba Wilderness
- Jennie Lakes Wilderness
- John Muir Wilderness
- Joshua Tree Wilderness
- Kaiser Wilderness
- Kelso Dunes Wilderness
- Kiavah Wilderness
- Kingston Range Wilderness
- Lassen Volcanic Wilderness
- Lava Beds Wilderness
- Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness
- Little Picacho Wilderness
- Machesna Mountain Wilderness
- Malpais Mesa Wilderness
- Manly Peak Wilderness
- Marble Mountain Wilderness
- Matilija Wilderness
- Mecca Hills Wilderness
- Mesquite Wilderness
- Mojave Wilderness
- Mokelumne Wilderness
- Monarch Wilderness
- Mt. Shasta Wilderness
- Newberry Mountains Wilderness
- Nopah Range Wilderness
- North Algodones Dunes Wilderness
- North Fork Wilderness
- North Mesquite Mountains Wilderness
- Old Woman Mountains Wilderness
- Orocopia Mountains Wilderness
- Otay Mountain Wilderness
- Owens Peak Wilderness
- Pahrump Valley Wilderness
- Palen/McCoy Wilderness
- Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness
- Phillip Burton Wilderness
- Picacho Peak Wilderness
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- Pine Creek Wilderness
- Pinnacles Wilderness
- Piper Mountain Wilderness
- Piute Mountains Wilderness
- Red Buttes Wilderness
- Resting Spring Range Wilderness
- Rice Valley Wilderness
- Riverside Mountains Wilderness
- Rodman Mountains Wilderness
- Russian Wilderness
- Sacatar Trail Wilderness
- Saddle Peak Hills Wilderness
- San Gabriel Wilderness
- San Gorgonio Wilderness
- San Jacinto Wilderness
- San Mateo Canyon Wilderness
- San Rafael Wilderness
- Santa Lucia Wilderness
- Santa Rosa Wilderness
- Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness
- Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness
- Sespe Wilderness
- Sheep Mountain Wilderness
- Sheephole Valley Wilderness
- Silver Peak Wilderness
- Siskiyou Wilderness
- Snow Mountain Wilderness
- South Nopah Range Wilderness
- South Sierra Wilderness
- South Warner Wilderness
- Stateline Wilderness
- Stepladder Mountains Wilderness
- Surprise Canyon Wilderness
- Sylvania Mountains Wilderness
- Thousand Lakes Wilderness
- Trilobite Wilderness
- Trinity Alps Wilderness
- Turtle Mountains Wilderness
- Ventana Wilderness
- Whipple Mountains Wilderness
- Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness
- Yosemite Wilderness
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Colorado with Wilderness Areas highlighted in red
- Haleakala Wilderness
- Hawaii Volcanoes Wilderness
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- Crab Orchard Wilderness
- Garden of the Gods Wilderness
- Lusk Creek Wilderness
- Panther Den Wilderness
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- Beaver Creek Wilderness
- Clifty Wilderness
The Clifty Wilderness Area, Red River Gorge (Daniel Boone National Forest), Kentucky, USA
- Breton Wilderness
- Kisatchie Hills Wilderness
- Lacassine Wilderness
- Caribou-Speckled Mountain Wilderness
- Moosehorn (Baring Unit) Wilderness
- Moosehorn Wilderness
- Brigantine Wilderness
- Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness
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- Cebolla Wilderness
- Chama River Canyon Wilderness
- Cruces Basin Wilderness
- Dome Wilderness
- Gila Wilderness
- Latir Peak Wilderness
- Manzano Mountain Wilderness
- Ojito Wilderness
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- Pecos Wilderness
- Salt Creek Wilderness
- San Pedro Parks Wilderness
- Sandia Mountain Wilderness
- West Malpais Wilderness
- Wheeler Peak Wilderness
- White Mountain Wilderness
- Withington Wilderness
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- West Sister Island Wilderness
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- Little Wambaw Swamp Wilderness
- Wambaw Creek Wilderness
- Wambaw Swamp Wilderness
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- Bald River Gorge Wilderness
- Big Frog Wilderness
- Big Laurel Branch Wilderness
- Citico Creek Wilderness
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- Cohutta Wilderness
- Gee Creek Wilderness
- Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness
- Little Frog Mountain Wilderness
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- Pond Mountain Wilderness
- Sampson Mountain Wilderness
- Unaka Mountain Wilderness
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- Big Slough Wilderness
- Guadalupe Mountains Wilderness
- Indian Mounds Wilderness
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- Little Lake Creek Wilderness
- Turkey Hill Wilderness
- Upland Island Wilderness
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- Big Branch Wilderness
- Breadloaf Wilderness
- Bristol Cliffs Wilderness
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- Barbours Creek Wilderness
- Beartown Wilderness
- James River Face Wilderness
- Kimberling Creek Wilderness
- Lewis Fork Wilderness
- Little Dry Run Wilderness
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- Little Wilson Creek Wilderness
- Mountain Lake Wilderness
- Peters Mountain Wilderness
- Priest Wilderness
- Ramseys Draft Wilderness
- Rich Hole Wilderness
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- Rough Mountain Wilderness
- Saint Mary's Wilderness
- Shawvers Run Wilderness
- Shenandoah Wilderness
- Three Ridges Wilderness
- Thunder Ridge Wilderness
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- Laurel Fork South Wilderness
- Mountain Lake Wilderness
- Otter Creek Wilderness
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- Blackjack Springs Wilderness
- Gaylord A. Nelson National Wilderness
- Headwaters Wilderness
- Porcupine Lake Wilderness
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- Rainbow Lake Wilderness
- Whisker Lake Wilderness
- Wisconsin Islands Wilderness
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[edit] Wilderness Areas alphabetically
- Eagle Cap Wilderness
- Eagles Nest Wilderness
- Eagletail Mountains Wilderness
- East Cactus Plain Wilderness
- East Fork High Rock Canyon Wilderness
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- Ibex Wilderness
- Imperial Refuge Wilderness
- Indian Heaven Wilderness
- Indian Mounds Wilderness
- Indian Pass Wilderness
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- Kachina Peaks Wilderness
- Kaiser Wilderness
- Kalmiopsis Wilderness
- Kanab Creek Wilderness
- Karta River Wilderness
- Katmai Wilderness
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- Kelso Dunes Wilderness
- Kenai Wilderness
- Kendrick Mountain Wilderness
- Kiavah Wilderness
- Kimberling Creek Wilderness
- Kingston Range Wilderness
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- Kisatchie Hills Wilderness
- Kobuk Valley Wilderness
- Kofa Wilderness
- Kootznoowoo Wilderness
- Koyukuk Wilderness
- Kuiu Wilderness
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- Needle's Eye Wilderness
- Nellis Wash Wilderness
- Neota Wilderness
- Never Summer Wilderness
- New Water Mountains Wilderness
- Newberry Mountains Wilderness
- Noatak Wilderness
- Noisy-Diobsud Wilderness
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- North Fork Wilderness
- North Jackson Mountains Wilderness
- North Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
- North McCullough Wilderness
- North Mesquite Mountains Wilderness
- North Santa Teresa Wilderness
- Nunivak Wilderness
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- Oregon Islands Wilderness
- Organ Pipe Cactus Wilderness
- Orocopia Mountains Wilderness
- Otay Mountain Wilderness
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- Pemigewasset Wilderness
- Peru Peak Wilderness
- Peters Mountain Wilderness
- Petersburg Creek-Duncan Salt Chuck Wilderness
- Petrified Forest National Wilderness Area
- Phillip Burton Wilderness
- Picacho Peak Wilderness
- Pine Creek Wilderness
- Pine Mountain Wilderness
- Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness
- Piney Creek Wilderness
- Pinnacles Wilderness
- Pinto Valley Wilderness
- Piper Mountain Wilderness
- Piute Mountains Wilderness
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- Sacatar Trail Wilderness
- Saddle Mountain Wilderness
- Saddle Peak Hills Wilderness
- Saguaro Wilderness
- Saint Lazaria Wilderness
- Saint Mary's Wilderness
- Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness
- Salmo-Priest Wilderness
- Salome Wilderness
- Salt Creek Wilderness
- Salt River Canyon Wilderness
- Sampson Mountain Wilderness
- San Gabriel Wilderness
- San Gorgonio Wilderness
- San Jacinto Wilderness
- San Juan Wilderness
- San Mateo Canyon Wilderness
- San Pedro Parks Wilderness
- San Rafael Wilderness
- Sandia Mountain Wilderness
- Sandwich Range Wilderness
- Sangre de Cristo Wilderness
- Santa Lucia Wilderness
- Santa Rosa Wilderness
- Santa Rosa-Paradise Peak Wilderness
- Santa Teresa Wilderness
- Sarvis Creek Wilderness
- Savage Run Wilderness
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- South Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
- South McCullough Wilderness
- South Nopah Range Wilderness
- South Pahroc Range Wilderness
- South Prince of Wales Wilderness
- South San Juan Wilderness
- South Sierra Wilderness
- South Warner Wilderness
- Southern Nantahala Wilderness
- Spanish Peaks Wilderness
- Spirit Mountain Wilderness
- St. Marks Wilderness
- Stateline Wilderness
- Steens Mountain Wilderness
- Stephen Mather Wilderness
- Stepladder Mountains Wilderness
- Stikine-LeConte Wilderness
- Strawberry Crater Wilderness
- Strawberry Mountain Wilderness
- Sturgeon River Gorge Wilderness
- Superstition Wilderness
- Surprise Canyon Wilderness
- Swanquarter Wilderness
- Swansea Wilderness
- Sycamore Canyon Wilderness
- Sylvania Mountains Wilderness
- Sylvania Wilderness
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- Tres Alamos Wilderness
- Trigo Mountain Wilderness
- Trilobite Wilderness
- Trinity Alps Wilderness
- Turkey Hill Wilderness
- Turtle Mountains Wilderness
- Tuxedni Wilderness
- Twin Peaks Wilderness
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- Unimak Wilderness
- Upland Island Wilderness
- Upper Buffalo Wilderness
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- Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness
- West Chichagof-Yakobi Wilderness
- West Clear Creek Wilderness
- West Elk Wilderness
- West Malpais Wilderness
- West Sister Island Wilderness
- Wet Beaver Wilderness
- Wheeler Peak Wilderness
- Whipple Mountains Wilderness
- Whisker Lake Wilderness
- White Canyon Wilderness
- White Mountain Wilderness
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