Wilderness Areas

There are 26 Federally protected wilderness areas in the Sierra Nevada, covering over 3 million acres. The entire spine of the Sierra - from the South Fork of the Kern river to nearly Lake Tahoe - is in Federal wilderness, a distance of almost 250 miles.

The largest areas of wilderness are within Yosemite and Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Parks, though the total area of National Forest wilderness is even greater.

See also:

Wilderness areas in the Sierra Nevada (map)
Land ownership in the Sierra Nevada (map)
National Forests and National Parks in the Sierra (map)

	Name	Location	Acreage
	Lassen Volcanic NP	Lassen Volcanic NP	78,982
	Caribou	Lassen NF	20,546
	Ishi	Lassen NF	42,866
	Bucks Lake	Plumas NF	24.023
	Granite Chief	Tahoe NF	25,748
	Desolation	Eldorado NF	63,475
	Mokelumne	Eldorado NF, Stanislaus NF, Toiyabe NF	100,848
	Carson-Iceberg	Stanislaus NF, Toiyabe NF	161,501
	Emigrant	Stanislaus NF	112,338
	Yosemite	Yosemite National Park	681,150
	Hoover	Toiyabe NF, Inyo NF	48,622
	Ansel Adams	Inyo NF, Sierra NF	230,260
	Kaiser	Sierra NF	22,700
	John Muir	Sierra NF, Inyo NF	581,153
	Dinkey Lakes	Sierra NF	30,000
	Monarch	Sequoia NF, Giant Sequoia NM	44,896
	Jennie Lakes	Sequoia NF	10,289
	Sequoia-Kings Canyon	Sequoia-Kings Canyon NP	736,980
	Golden Trout	Sequoia NF, Inyo NF	305,464
	South Sierra	Inyo NF	60,324
	Sacatar Trail	BLM	51,900
	Domeland	Sequoia NF, BLM	130,995
	Chimney Peak	BLM	13,700
	Owens Peak	BLM	74,060
	Kiavah	BLM, Sequoia NF	88,298
	Bright Star	BLM	9,520
	TOTAL		3,726,639
Administered by:
National Park Service: 1,497,092 acres US Forest Service: 1,955,777 acres Bureau of Land Management: 273,770 acres

Sources:
GORP California Wilderness Areas
California's Wilderness Areas, Volume 1-2, Wuerther, 1997-98
Wilderness.net