List of Arizona Wilderness Areas

This is a List of Arizona Wilderness Areas. A second list contains the geographic landform that is most closely associated with it, or is in its proximity.

Note: LCRV = Lower Colorado River Valley

Lower Colorado River Valley

The Lower Colorado River Valley is the river region of the lower Colorado River of the southwestern United States in North America that rises in the Rocky Mountains and has its outlet at the Colorado River Delta in the northern Sea of Cortez in northwestern Mexico, between the states of Baja...

Apache Creek Wilderness
Apache Creek Wilderness
Apache Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area under the jurisdiction of the Chino Valley District of the Prescott National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona. Established in 1984, the Wilderness contains rolling hills of juniper and pinyon pine, outcroppings of granite, three natural springs, and...
Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness
Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness
Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness is a 19,410 acre wilderness area located in the U.S. State of Arizona. It forms the northwest border of the Galiuro Mountain range. The wilderness is administered by the BLM and is located northeast of Mammoth, Arizona in Graham and Pinal counties, about 120 miles...
Arrastra Mountain Wilderness
Arrastra Mountain Wilderness
The Arrastra Mountain Wilderness is located in Mohave, Yavapai, and La Paz counties, northwest of Phoenix and southeast of Kingman, Arizona. This sprawling wildland encompasses imposing landscapes and unique natural features. The Poachie Range, which trends northwest-southeast through the...
Aubrey Peak Wilderness
Aubrey Peak Wilderness
The Aubrey Peak Wilderness is a wilderness administered by the Bureau of Land Management . The wilderness is located in northwest Arizona in the southwest of Mohave County, a region of the southeastern Mojave Desert's extension into northwest Arizona....
Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
The Baboquivari Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located in the Baboquivari Mountain Range southwest of Tucson, Arizona. It is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The United States Congress designated the Baboquivari Peak Wilderness in 1990. It...
Baker Canyon Wilderness, the "Baker Canyon Wilderness Study Area"
Bear Wallow Wilderness
Bear Wallow Wilderness
The Bear Wallow Wilderness is an 11,080 acre wilderness area in eastern Arizona, United States. The wilderness is managed by the U.S. Forest Service.-See also:*Wilderness*Wilderness Act*List of U.S. Wilderness Areas...
Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
The Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness is a wilderness area located in northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region. The jagged mountains and gently sloping alluvial plain of the Beaver Dam Mountains straddle the border between the two states...
Big Horn Mountains Wilderness
Cabeza Prieta Wilderness
Cabeza Prieta Wilderness
The Cabeza Prieta Wilderness is located in the Sonoran Desert in southwestern Arizona in the United States. Cabeza Prieta Wilderness Area has the distinction of being Arizona's largest Wilderness Area, encompassing nearly 93 percent of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge and covering —larger...

, See also: Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge
Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge
The Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge is located in the Sonoran Desert in southwestern Arizona in the United States. The refuge, established in 1939 to protect Desert Bighorn Sheep, is located along of the U.S.-Mexico border, and covers 860,010 acres — larger than the land area of the state...
Cactus Plain Wilderness Study Area
- See: East Cactus Plain Wilderness
Castle Creek Wilderness
Cedar Bench Wilderness
Chiricahua Wilderness
Cottonwood Point Wilderness
Coyote Mountains Wilderness (Arizona)
Coyote Mountains Wilderness (Arizona)
The Coyote Mountains Wilderness of Arizona is part of the Coyote Mountains of southern Arizona in the center of Pima County. The wilderness lies about 40 mi southwest of Tucson, in the northwest of the Altar Valley. Kitt Peak is 4 mi WSW....
Dos Cabezas Mountains Wilderness
Eagletail Mountains Wilderness
Eagletail Mountains Wilderness
The Eagletail Mountains Wilderness is part of the Eagletail Mountains of central-west Arizona, about 65 mi west of Phoenix. The wilderness is of moderate size, with the Eagletail Mountains forming its northeast perimeter, and the much shorter Cemetery Ridge section, forming its southwest border...
East Cactus Plain Wilderness
East Cactus Plain Wilderness
The East Cactus Plain Wilderness is a wilderness area on the Cactus Plain north of Bouse, Arizona. It is one of twenty-five wilderness areas located in the Lower Colorado River Valley region, south of Lake Mead-Hoover Dam...

–(LCRV)
- See: Cactus Plain Wilderness
Escudilla Wilderness
Fishhooks Wilderness
Fishhooks Wilderness
Fishhooks Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is administered by the Bureau of Land Management and is located about northwest of Safford, Arizona. It borders the San Carlos Indian Reservation.-Access:...
Fossil Springs Wilderness
Fossil Springs Wilderness
Fossil Springs Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Coconino National Forest in Arizona, USA. It is located at the bottom of a steep canyon at the edge of the Colorado Plateau, just south of the Mogollon Rim. Here, water is pumped to the surface at the rate of about 20,000 gallons per minute...
Four Peaks Wilderness
Galiuro Wilderness
Galiuro Wilderness
Galiuro Wilderness is a wilderness area encompassing the mid to upper slopes of the Galiuro Mountains. It is located within the Safford Ranger District of the Coronado National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is bordered on the south by the Redfield Canyon...
Gibraltar Mountain Wilderness
Grand Wash Cliffs Wilderness
Granite Mountain Wilderness
Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness
Harquahala Mountains Wilderness, See: Harquahala Mountains Wilderness Area
Harquahala Mountains
The Harquahala Mountains are the highest mountain range in southwestern Arizona, USA and are located southwest of the towns of Aguila and Wenden. The name originated from a local Native American people "Aha qua hala" which meant "water there is high up". The range is oriented from northeast to...

, (Harquahala Mountains)
Hassayampa River Canyon Wilderness
Hassayampa River Canyon Wilderness
Hassayampa River Canyon Wilderness is a 11,840 acre wilderness area located in the U.S. state of Arizona. It lies north east of Wickenburg. The wilderness area was created in 1990 and is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The Yavapai word for the Hassayampa River is Hasyambo, meaning...
Havasu Wilderness
Havasu Wilderness
Havasu Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Havasu National Wildlife Refuge near Lake Havasu in the U.S. states of Arizona and California. are located in Arizona and are located in California....
Hells Canyon Wilderness (Arizona)
Hells Canyon Wilderness (Arizona)
Hells Canyon Wilderness is a 9900 acre wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located approximately northwest of Phoenix in Maricopa and southeast Yavapai counties.-Topography:...
Hellsgate Wilderness
Hummingbird Springs Wilderness
Hummingbird Springs Wilderness
The Hummingbird Springs Wilderness is a wilderness administered by the Bureau of Land Management . The wilderness is located in the northwest of Maricopa County in northern regions of the central Sonoran Desert of Arizona....
Juniper Mesa Wilderness
Kachina Peaks Wilderness
Kachina Peaks Wilderness
Kachina Peaks Wilderness is a wilderness area located approximately north of Flagstaff within the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona....
Kanab Creek Wilderness
Kanab Creek Wilderness
Kanab Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located along the Coconino/Mohave County line in the U.S. state of Arizona, approximately south of Fredonia...
Kendrick Mountain Wilderness
Kendrick Mountain Wilderness
Kendrick Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. State of Arizona. It lies north of the city of Flagstaff on the Coconino Plateau in Coconino County. Kendrick Mountain Wilderness was designated a protected Wilderness area by Congress in 1984. About two thirds of the wilderness is...
Mazatzal Wilderness
Miller Peak Wilderness
Mount Baldy Wilderness
Mount Graham Wilderness, "Mount Graham Wilderness Study Area"
Mount Logan Wilderness
Mount Logan Wilderness
The Mount Logan Wilderness is a 14,650 acre U.S. wilderness area in the Arizona Strip. It is located about seven miles south of the Mount Trumbull Wilderness. The wilderness is within the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument and is managed by the BLM. -See also:*Wilderness*List of U.S....
Mount Nutt Wilderness–(LCRV)
Mount Tipton Wilderness
Mount Tipton Wilderness
The Mount Tipton Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located in northwestern Arizona and comprises the north portion of the Cerbat Mountains; the Cerbat Mountains extend northwesterly from the northern edge of Kingman....

–(LCRV)
Mount Trumbull Wilderness
Mount Trumbull Wilderness
The Mount Trumbull Wilderness is a 7,880 acre wilderness area located on the Uinkaret Plateau in the Arizona Strip. It is managed by the Bureau of Land Management....
Mount Wilson Wilderness–(LCRV)
Mount Wrightson Wilderness
Muggins Mountains Wilderness
Muggins Mountains Wilderness
The Muggins Mountains Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located approximately east of Yuma, Arizona in the Muggins Mountains and adjacent to the agricultural Dome Valley and Gila River. The wilderness area is made up of the highest peak in the southern section of...
Munds Mountain Wilderness–(LCRV)
Needle's Eye Wilderness
Needle's Eye Wilderness
Needle's Eye Wilderness is a wilderness area located approximately southeast of the town of Globe in Gila County in the U.S. state of Arizona.-Topography:...
New Water Mountains Wilderness–(LCRV)
North Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
- See: South Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
North Santa Teresa Wilderness
- See: Santa Teresa Wilderness
Paiute Wilderness
Paiute Wilderness
The Paiute Wilderness is an 87,900 acre wilderness area located in the U.S. state of Arizona. The wilderness is administered by the Bureau of Land Management.-References:, accessed August 25, 2010.-See also:*Wilderness*Wilderness Act...
Pajarito Wilderness
Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
The Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness is a wilderness area located in northern Arizona and southern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region. The wilderness is composed of broad plateaus, tall escarpments, and deep canyons....
Peloncillo Mountains Wilderness
Pine Mountain Wilderness
Pusch Ridge Wilderness Area
Pusch Ridge Wilderness Area
Pusch Ridge Wilderness Area is a 56,430 acre wilderness area. It is located within the Coronado National Forest in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, Arizona, United States...
Rawhide Mountains Wilderness
Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness
Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness
The Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona.The Wilderness is predominantly wind and water sculpted pinnacles, windows, arches, and slot canyons, and the red-rock cliffs of the Mogollon Rim that mark the edge...
Redfield Canyon Wilderness
Rincon Mountain Wilderness, See: Rincon Mountain Wilderness
Salmone Wilderness
Salt River Canyon Wilderness
Salt River Canyon Wilderness
Salt River Canyon Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Tonto National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona.The Salt River and its deep canyon bisect the entire length of the wilderness...
Santa Teresa Wilderness
- See: North Santa Teresa Wilderness
Sierra Ancha Wilderness
Sierra Ancha Wilderness
The Sierra Ancha Wilderness area comprises within the Tonto National Forest, Arizona, USA. The terrain varies from box canyons to high cliffs and pine-covered mountains. Elevations range from lows of about to a high of at Aztec Peak...
Sierra Estrella Wilderness
Signal Mountain Wilderness
South Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
- See: North Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
Strawberry Crater Wilderness
Superstition Wilderness, See: Superstition Wilderness
Swansea Wilderness
Sycamore Canyon Wilderness, See: Sycamore Canyon
Sycamore Canyon
Sycamore Canyon is the second largest canyon in the Arizona redrock country, after Oak Creek Canyon. The long scenic canyon reaches a maximum width of about and is located in North Central Arizona below the Mogollon Rim west and northwest of Sedona. Located within three different U.S...
Table Top Wilderness
Tres Alamos Wilderness
Trigo Mountains Wilderness
Trigo Mountains Wilderness
Trigo Mountains Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona and was established in 1990. It is located north of Yuma east of the Colorado River in an area called the Lower Colorado River Valley. It is a stretch of ridgeline of the rugged desert Trigo Mountains and is adjacent to...

–(LCRV)
Upper Burro Creek Wilderness
Upper Burro Creek Wilderness
Upper Burro Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located in Yavapai and Mohave Counties in the U.S. state of Arizona, approximately northwest of the town of Bagdad.-Topography:...
Wabayuma Peak Wilderness–(LCRV)
Warm Springs Wilderness
Warm Springs Wilderness
The Warm Springs Wilderness makes up the entirety of the Black Mesa and parts of the surrounding foothills, washes, alluvial fans, and valleys. The Black Mesa is the southernmost section of the Black Mountains of western Mohave County, in northwest Arizona...

–(LCRV)
West Clear Creek Wilderness
West Clear Creek Wilderness
The West Clear Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. West Clear Creek is formed by the junction of Willow Creek and Clover Creek in the Mogollon Rim, which is part of the Colorado Plateau; the Mogollon Rim is the major part of the Arizona transition zone at the...
Wet Beaver Wilderness
Wet Beaver Wilderness
Wet Beaver Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona.Wet Beaver Creek is a perennial stream with one major tributary, Dry Beaver Creek. The confluence of the two is at McGuireville, Arizona...
White Canyon Wilderness
Woodchute Wilderness
Woolsey Peak Wilderness

List of wilderness areas/associated landforms

Apache Creek Wilderness
Apache Creek Wilderness
Apache Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area under the jurisdiction of the Chino Valley District of the Prescott National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona. Established in 1984, the Wilderness contains rolling hills of juniper and pinyon pine, outcroppings of granite, three natural springs, and...

—Santa Maria Mountains
Santa Maria Mountains
The Santa Maria Mountains are a 16-mi long mountain range in central-northwest Arizona, and in northwest Yavapai County. The range lies in a region of mesas and mountain ranges in the northwest of Arizona's transition zone...
Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness
Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness
Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness is a 19,410 acre wilderness area located in the U.S. State of Arizona. It forms the northwest border of the Galiuro Mountain range. The wilderness is administered by the BLM and is located northeast of Mammoth, Arizona in Graham and Pinal counties, about 120 miles...

—Galiuro Mountains
Galiuro Mountains
The Galiuro Mountains are a large sky island mountain range of southeast Arizona, USA. It is a northerly mountain range in the Madrean Sky Islands region of southeast Arizona, northern Sonora, Northern Mexico, and extreme southwest, bootheel New Mexico....
Arrastra Mountain Wilderness
Arrastra Mountain Wilderness
The Arrastra Mountain Wilderness is located in Mohave, Yavapai, and La Paz counties, northwest of Phoenix and southeast of Kingman, Arizona. This sprawling wildland encompasses imposing landscapes and unique natural features. The Poachie Range, which trends northwest-southeast through the...

—Poachie Range
Poachie Range
The Poachie Range is a moderate length mountain range and massif in southeast Mohave County, Arizona, and the extreme southwest corner of Yavapai County; the range also abuts the northeast corner of La Paz County...
Aubrey Peak Wilderness
Aubrey Peak Wilderness
The Aubrey Peak Wilderness is a wilderness administered by the Bureau of Land Management . The wilderness is located in northwest Arizona in the southwest of Mohave County, a region of the southeastern Mojave Desert's extension into northwest Arizona....

—Rawhide Mountains
Rawhide Mountains
The Rawhide Mountains are a mountain range of western Arizona, in the southwest of Mohave County. It is part of a block of mountain ranges on the north of an insular region called the Maria fold and thrust belt, containing mountain ranges, valleys, and plains...
Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
The Baboquivari Peak Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located in the Baboquivari Mountain Range southwest of Tucson, Arizona. It is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The United States Congress designated the Baboquivari Peak Wilderness in 1990. It...

—Baboquivari Mountains
Baker Canyon Wilderness, the "Baker Canyon Wilderness Study Area"—Guadalupe Mountains, Arizona
Bear Wallow Wilderness
Bear Wallow Wilderness
The Bear Wallow Wilderness is an 11,080 acre wilderness area in eastern Arizona, United States. The wilderness is managed by the U.S. Forest Service.-See also:*Wilderness*Wilderness Act*List of U.S. Wilderness Areas...

—Mogollon Rim
Mogollon Rim
The Mogollon Rim is a topographical and geological feature running across the U.S. state of Arizona. It extends approximately from northern Yavapai County eastward to near the border with New Mexico.-Description:...

-(Eastern)
Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness
The Beaver Dam Mountains Wilderness is a wilderness area located in northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region. The jagged mountains and gently sloping alluvial plain of the Beaver Dam Mountains straddle the border between the two states...

—Beaver Dam Mountains
Big Horn Mountains Wilderness—Big Horn Mountains (Arizona)
Cabeza Prieta Wilderness
Cabeza Prieta Wilderness
The Cabeza Prieta Wilderness is located in the Sonoran Desert in southwestern Arizona in the United States. Cabeza Prieta Wilderness Area has the distinction of being Arizona's largest Wilderness Area, encompassing nearly 93 percent of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge and covering —larger...

, See also: Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge
Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge
The Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge is located in the Sonoran Desert in southwestern Arizona in the United States. The refuge, established in 1939 to protect Desert Bighorn Sheep, is located along of the U.S.-Mexico border, and covers 860,010 acres — larger than the land area of the state...
Cactus Plain Wilderness Study Area—Cactus Plain
Cactus Plain
The Cactus Plain is a plain east of Parker, Arizona and the Parker Valley within the Lower Colorado River Valley.The Cactus Plain is adjacent to the Bouse Wash on the south, which drains northwest-west into the Colorado River...

Lower Colorado River Valley (LCRV)
- See: East Cactus Plain Wilderness
Castle Creek Wilderness—south end of Bradshaw Mountains
Bradshaw Mountains
The Bradshaw Mountains are a mountain range in the Sonoran Desert of central Arizona, USA, named for brothers Isaac and William Bradshaw after their death, having been formerly known in English as the Silver Mountain Range.-History:...
Cedar Bench Wilderness—Verde Rim, Black Hills
Chiricahua Wilderness—Chiricahua Mountains
Chiricahua Mountains
The Chiricahua Mountains are a mountain range in southeastern Arizona which are part of the Basin and Range province of the southwest, and part of the Coronado National Forest...
Cottonwood Point Wilderness—Kanab Plateau
Coyote Mountains Wilderness (Arizona)
Coyote Mountains Wilderness (Arizona)
The Coyote Mountains Wilderness of Arizona is part of the Coyote Mountains of southern Arizona in the center of Pima County. The wilderness lies about 40 mi southwest of Tucson, in the northwest of the Altar Valley. Kitt Peak is 4 mi WSW....

—Coyote Mountains (Arizona)
Dos Cabezas Mountains Wilderness—Dos Cabezas Mountains
Dos Cabezas Mountains
The Dos Cabezas Mountains are a mountain range in southeasternmost Arizona, USA. The Dos Cabezas Mountains Wilderness lies east of Willcox, Arizona and south of Bowie, Arizona in Cochise County...
Eagletail Mountains Wilderness
Eagletail Mountains Wilderness
The Eagletail Mountains Wilderness is part of the Eagletail Mountains of central-west Arizona, about 65 mi west of Phoenix. The wilderness is of moderate size, with the Eagletail Mountains forming its northeast perimeter, and the much shorter Cemetery Ridge section, forming its southwest border...

—Eagletail Mountains
East Cactus Plain Wilderness
East Cactus Plain Wilderness
The East Cactus Plain Wilderness is a wilderness area on the Cactus Plain north of Bouse, Arizona. It is one of twenty-five wilderness areas located in the Lower Colorado River Valley region, south of Lake Mead-Hoover Dam...

—Cactus Plain
Cactus Plain
The Cactus Plain is a plain east of Parker, Arizona and the Parker Valley within the Lower Colorado River Valley.The Cactus Plain is adjacent to the Bouse Wash on the south, which drains northwest-west into the Colorado River...

—(LCRV)
- See: Cactus Plain Wilderness
Escudilla Wilderness—Escuudilla Mountain, White Mountains (Arizona)
White Mountains (Arizona)
The White Mountains of Arizona are a mountain range and mountainous region in the eastern part of the state, near the border with New Mexico; it is a continuation from the west of the Arizona transition zone–Mogollon Rim, with the Rim ending in western New Mexico...

-(East)
Fishhooks Wilderness
Fishhooks Wilderness
Fishhooks Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is administered by the Bureau of Land Management and is located about northwest of Safford, Arizona. It borders the San Carlos Indian Reservation.-Access:...

—Gila Mountains
Gila Mountains (Graham County)
The Gila Mountains is a mountain range in central-east Arizona. It borders the Gila River and Gila Valley on the valley's northeast in north-central Graham County; also the San Carlos Indian Reservation...

-(Graham County, Arizona
Graham County, Arizona
-2010:Whereas according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau:*72.1% White*1.8% Black*14.4% Native American*0.5% Asian*0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander*2.8% Two or more races*8.3% Other races*30.4% Hispanic or Latino -2000:...

)
Fossil Springs Wilderness
Fossil Springs Wilderness
Fossil Springs Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Coconino National Forest in Arizona, USA. It is located at the bottom of a steep canyon at the edge of the Colorado Plateau, just south of the Mogollon Rim. Here, water is pumped to the surface at the rate of about 20,000 gallons per minute...

—Mogollon Rim
Mogollon Rim
The Mogollon Rim is a topographical and geological feature running across the U.S. state of Arizona. It extends approximately from northern Yavapai County eastward to near the border with New Mexico.-Description:...
Four Peaks Wilderness—Mazatzal Mountains
Mazatzal Mountains
The Mazatzal Mountains are a mountain range in south central Arizona, about 30–45 miles northeast of Phoenix and the Phoenix metropolitan area. The origin of the name remains obscure but one possibility is that it is from the Aztec language meaning "place of the deer"...
Galiuro Wilderness
Galiuro Wilderness
Galiuro Wilderness is a wilderness area encompassing the mid to upper slopes of the Galiuro Mountains. It is located within the Safford Ranger District of the Coronado National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is bordered on the south by the Redfield Canyon...

—Galiuro Mountains
Galiuro Mountains
The Galiuro Mountains are a large sky island mountain range of southeast Arizona, USA. It is a northerly mountain range in the Madrean Sky Islands region of southeast Arizona, northern Sonora, Northern Mexico, and extreme southwest, bootheel New Mexico....
Gibraltar Mountain Wilderness—Buckskin Mountains
Buckskin Mountains
The Buckskin Mountains are a mountain range in western-central Arizona, USA. The range lies just east of the north-south Colorado River, and borders south of the east-west, west-flowing Bill Williams River....
Grand Wash Cliffs Wilderness—Shivwits Plateau
Granite Mountain Wilderness—Granite Mountain (Arizona)
Granite Mountain (Arizona)
Granite Mountain is a mountain located in Yavapai County, Arizona that covers roughly . It was once known as Mount Gurley for the first governor of the Arizona Territory, John A. Gurley. Its southwest face has a sheer granite cliff approximately 500 feet high that is one of the best locations for...
Harcuvar Mountains Wilderness—Harcuvar Mountains
Harcuvar Mountains
The Harcuvar Mountains are a narrow mountain range in western-central Arizona, USA. The range lies just east of the north-south Colorado River, and south of the east-west, west-flowing Bill Williams River, from Alamo Lake....
Harquahala Mountains Wilderness
Harquahala Mountains
The Harquahala Mountains are the highest mountain range in southwestern Arizona, USA and are located southwest of the towns of Aguila and Wenden. The name originated from a local Native American people "Aha qua hala" which meant "water there is high up". The range is oriented from northeast to...

—Harquahala Mountains
Harquahala Mountains
The Harquahala Mountains are the highest mountain range in southwestern Arizona, USA and are located southwest of the towns of Aguila and Wenden. The name originated from a local Native American people "Aha qua hala" which meant "water there is high up". The range is oriented from northeast to...
Hassayampa River Canyon Wilderness
Hassayampa River Canyon Wilderness
Hassayampa River Canyon Wilderness is a 11,840 acre wilderness area located in the U.S. state of Arizona. It lies north east of Wickenburg. The wilderness area was created in 1990 and is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The Yavapai word for the Hassayampa River is Hasyambo, meaning...

—Weaver Mountains
Weaver Mountains
The Weaver Mountains are a smaller mountain range to the southwest of the Bradshaw Mountains in central-west Yavapai County, Arizona. Yarnell at the summit of the Yarnell Hill, Arizona State Route 89, is at the center of the range.-Description:...

, and Bradshaw Mountains
Bradshaw Mountains
The Bradshaw Mountains are a mountain range in the Sonoran Desert of central Arizona, USA, named for brothers Isaac and William Bradshaw after their death, having been formerly known in English as the Silver Mountain Range.-History:...
Havasu Wilderness
Havasu Wilderness
Havasu Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Havasu National Wildlife Refuge near Lake Havasu in the U.S. states of Arizona and California. are located in Arizona and are located in California....

—Lake Havasu
Lake Havasu
Lake Havasu is a large reservoir behind Parker Dam on the Colorado River, on the border between California and Arizona. Lake Havasu City sits on the lake's eastern shore. The lake has a capacity of . The concrete arch dam was built by the United States Bureau of Reclamation between 1934 and 1938...
Hells Canyon Wilderness (Arizona)
Hells Canyon Wilderness (Arizona)
Hells Canyon Wilderness is a 9900 acre wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located approximately northwest of Phoenix in Maricopa and southeast Yavapai counties.-Topography:...

—Hieroglyphic Mountains
Hieroglyphic Mountains
The Hieroglyphic Mountains are a mountain range located in central Arizona. The Hieroglyphics roughly straddle the border between Maricopa and Yavapai counties and form an effective physical barrier northwest of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area...
Hellsgate Wilderness—Sierra Ancha
Sierra Ancha
The Sierra Ancha is a mountain range in Gila County, in central Arizona. It lies between Roosevelt Lake to the south, the Tonto Basin to the west, Cherry Creek to the east, and Pleasant Valley to the north...

-(North)
Hummingbird Springs Wilderness
Hummingbird Springs Wilderness
The Hummingbird Springs Wilderness is a wilderness administered by the Bureau of Land Management . The wilderness is located in the northwest of Maricopa County in northern regions of the central Sonoran Desert of Arizona....

—Belmont Mountains
Belmont Mountains
The Belmont Mountains are a 25 mi long, arid, low elevation mountain range about 50 mi west of Phoenix, Arizona in the northern Sonoran Desert, north of the Gila River...
Juniper Mesa Wilderness—Juniper Mountains
Kachina Peaks Wilderness
Kachina Peaks Wilderness
Kachina Peaks Wilderness is a wilderness area located approximately north of Flagstaff within the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona....

—San Francisco Peaks
San Francisco Peaks
The San Francisco Peaks are a volcanic mountain range located in north central Arizona, just north of Flagstaff.The highest summit in the range, Humphreys Peak, is the highest point in the state of Arizona at in elevation. The San Francisco Peaks are the remains of an eroded stratovolcano...
Kanab Creek Wilderness
Kanab Creek Wilderness
Kanab Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located along the Coconino/Mohave County line in the U.S. state of Arizona, approximately south of Fredonia...

—Kanab Plateau
Kendrick Mountain Wilderness
Kendrick Mountain Wilderness
Kendrick Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. State of Arizona. It lies north of the city of Flagstaff on the Coconino Plateau in Coconino County. Kendrick Mountain Wilderness was designated a protected Wilderness area by Congress in 1984. About two thirds of the wilderness is...

—Kendrick Mountain, West of San Francisco Peaks
San Francisco Peaks
The San Francisco Peaks are a volcanic mountain range located in north central Arizona, just north of Flagstaff.The highest summit in the range, Humphreys Peak, is the highest point in the state of Arizona at in elevation. The San Francisco Peaks are the remains of an eroded stratovolcano...
Kofa Refuge Wilderness—Kofa Mountains
Kofa Mountains
The Kofa Mountains is the central mountain range comprising the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge, about 60 miles northeast of Yuma, Arizona in the southwestern part of the state...

, see Kofa National Wildlife Refuge
Kofa National Wildlife Refuge
The Kofa National Wildlife Refuge is located northeast of Yuma, Arizona, southeast of Quartzsite, Arizona, in the southwestern United States. The refuge, established in 1939 to protect Desert Bighorn Sheep, encompasses over of the Yuma Desert region of the Sonoran Desert...
Mazatzal Wilderness—Mazatzal Mountains
Mazatzal Mountains
The Mazatzal Mountains are a mountain range in south central Arizona, about 30–45 miles northeast of Phoenix and the Phoenix metropolitan area. The origin of the name remains obscure but one possibility is that it is from the Aztec language meaning "place of the deer"...
Miller Peak Wilderness—Huachuca Mountains
Huachuca Mountains
The Huachuca Mountain range is part of the Sierra Vista Ranger District of the Coronado National Forest. The Huachuca Mountains are located in Cochise County, Arizona approximately south-southeast of Tucson and southwest of the city of Sierra Vista, Arizona...
Mount Baldy Wilderness—White Mountains (Arizona)
White Mountains (Arizona)
The White Mountains of Arizona are a mountain range and mountainous region in the eastern part of the state, near the border with New Mexico; it is a continuation from the west of the Arizona transition zone–Mogollon Rim, with the Rim ending in western New Mexico...
Mound Graham Wilderness, "Mount Graham Wilderness Study Area"—Pinaleno Mountains
Pinaleno Mountains
The Pinaleño Mountains, or the Pinal Mountains, are a remote mountain range in southeastern Arizona. They have over of vertical relief, more than any other range in the state. The mountains are surrounded by the Sonoran-Chihuahuan Desert. Subalpine forests cover the higher elevations...
Mount Logan Wilderness
Mount Logan Wilderness
The Mount Logan Wilderness is a 14,650 acre U.S. wilderness area in the Arizona Strip. It is located about seven miles south of the Mount Trumbull Wilderness. The wilderness is within the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument and is managed by the BLM. -See also:*Wilderness*List of U.S....

—Sawmill Mountains
Mount Nutt Wilderness—Black Mountains (Arizona)
Black Mountains (Arizona)
The Black Mountains of northwest Arizona are an extensive, mostly linear, north-south 75-mile long mountain range. It forms the north-south border of southwest Mohave County as it borders the eastern shore of the south-flowing Colorado River from Hoover Dam.The northwest, and parts of the west of...

(South)—(LCRV)
Mount Tipton Wilderness
Mount Tipton Wilderness
The Mount Tipton Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located in northwestern Arizona and comprises the north portion of the Cerbat Mountains; the Cerbat Mountains extend northwesterly from the northern edge of Kingman....

—Cerbat Mountains
Cerbat Mountains
The Cerbat Mountains is a mountain range in northwest Arizona immediately north of Kingman.It is a 23 mi long range trending slightly northwest-southeast...

—(LCRV)
Mount Trumbull Wilderness
Mount Trumbull Wilderness
The Mount Trumbull Wilderness is a 7,880 acre wilderness area located on the Uinkaret Plateau in the Arizona Strip. It is managed by the Bureau of Land Management....

—Uinkaret Mountains–Uinkaret Plateau
Mount Wilson Wilderness—Black Mountains (Arizona)
Black Mountains (Arizona)
The Black Mountains of northwest Arizona are an extensive, mostly linear, north-south 75-mile long mountain range. It forms the north-south border of southwest Mohave County as it borders the eastern shore of the south-flowing Colorado River from Hoover Dam.The northwest, and parts of the west of...

(North)—(LCRV)
Mount Wrightson Wilderness—Santa Rita Mountains
Santa Rita Mountains
The Santa Rita Mountains, located about 65 km southeast of Tucson, Arizona, extend 42 km from north to south, then trending southeast. They merge again southeastwards into the Patagonia Mountains, trending northwest by southeast...
Muggins Mountains Wilderness
Muggins Mountains Wilderness
The Muggins Mountains Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located approximately east of Yuma, Arizona in the Muggins Mountains and adjacent to the agricultural Dome Valley and Gila River. The wilderness area is made up of the highest peak in the southern section of...

—Muggins Mountains
Muggins Mountains
The Muggins Mountains is a mountain range in southwest Arizona east of Yuma, Arizona, northeast of the Gila Mountains , and east of the Laguna Mountains...
Munds Mountain Wilderness—Mogollon Rim
Mogollon Rim
The Mogollon Rim is a topographical and geological feature running across the U.S. state of Arizona. It extends approximately from northern Yavapai County eastward to near the border with New Mexico.-Description:...
Needle's Eye Wilderness
Needle's Eye Wilderness
Needle's Eye Wilderness is a wilderness area located approximately southeast of the town of Globe in Gila County in the U.S. state of Arizona.-Topography:...

—Mescal Mountains
New Water Mountains Wilderness—New Water Mountains
New Water Mountains
The New Water Mountains is a mountain range in southwestern Arizona. The range is on the northern border of the Kofa National Wildlife Refuge as well as the northern Kofa Mountains.It is a northwest-southeast trending range, about 20 miles long...

-(and Plomosa Mountains
Plomosa Mountains
The Plomosa Mountains are a mountain range in La Paz County, Arizona, running generally south of Bouse, Arizona near the Arizona/California border. The maximum height of the range is 1791 feet ....

)—(LCRV)
North Maricopa Mountains Wilderness—Maricopa Mountains
- See: South Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
North Santa Teresa Wilderness—Santa Teresa Mountains
Santa Teresa Mountains
The Santa Teresa Mountains are located in western Graham County, Arizona, within the Coronado National Forest and within the Santa Teresa Wilderness.-External links:*...
- See: Santa Teresa Wilderness
Paiute Wilderness
Paiute Wilderness
The Paiute Wilderness is an 87,900 acre wilderness area located in the U.S. state of Arizona. The wilderness is administered by the Bureau of Land Management.-References:, accessed August 25, 2010.-See also:*Wilderness*Wilderness Act...

—Virgin Mountains
Virgin Mountains
The Virgin Mountains is a range northeast of Lake Mead about 10 to 16 miles south of the town of Mesquite, Nevada. Located in the Lower Colorado-Lake Mead watershed , 91.6% of the range is managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The range has many species of lizards, as well as the Panamint...
Pajarito Wilderness—Pajarito Mountains
Pajarito Mountains
The Pajarito Mountains are a small mountain range of western Santa Cruz County, Arizona. The range is adjacent the Atascosa Mountains at its north, with both ranges in the center of a north-south sequence of ranges called the Tumacacori Highlands...
Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness
The Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness is a wilderness area located in northern Arizona and southern Utah, USA, within the arid Colorado Plateau region. The wilderness is composed of broad plateaus, tall escarpments, and deep canyons....

—Paria Plateau–(part of Colorado Plateau
Colorado Plateau
The Colorado Plateau, also called the Colorado Plateau Province, is a physiographic region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States. The province covers an area of 337,000 km2 within western Colorado, northwestern New Mexico,...

)
Peloncillo Mountains Wilderness—Peloncillo Mountains (Cochise County)
Peloncillo Mountains (Cochise County)
The Peloncillo Mountains of Cochise County, , is a mountain range in northeast Cochise County, Arizona. A northern north-south stretch of the range extends to the southern region of Greenlee County on the northeast, and a southeast region of Graham County on the northwest...
Pine Mountain Wilderness—Verde Rim, Black Hills
Pusch Ridge Wilderness Area
Pusch Ridge Wilderness Area
Pusch Ridge Wilderness Area is a 56,430 acre wilderness area. It is located within the Coronado National Forest in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, Arizona, United States...

—Santa Catalina Mountains
Santa Catalina Mountains
The Santa Catalina Mountains, commonly referred to as the Catalina Mountains, are located north, and northeast of Tucson, Arizona, United States, on Tucson's north perimeter. The mountain range is the most prominent in the Tucson area, with the highest average elevation...
Rawhide Mountains Wilderness—Rawhide Mountains
Rawhide Mountains
The Rawhide Mountains are a mountain range of western Arizona, in the southwest of Mohave County. It is part of a block of mountain ranges on the north of an insular region called the Maria fold and thrust belt, containing mountain ranges, valleys, and plains...
Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness
Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness
The Red Rock-Secret Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona.The Wilderness is predominantly wind and water sculpted pinnacles, windows, arches, and slot canyons, and the red-rock cliffs of the Mogollon Rim that mark the edge...

—Mogollon Rim
Mogollon Rim
The Mogollon Rim is a topographical and geological feature running across the U.S. state of Arizona. It extends approximately from northern Yavapai County eastward to near the border with New Mexico.-Description:...

, Oak Creek Canyon
Oak Creek Canyon
Oak Creek Canyon is a river gorge located along the Mogollon Rim in northern Arizona located between the cities of Flagstaff and Sedona. The canyon is often described as a smaller cousin of the Grand Canyon because of its scenic beauty...
Redfield Canyon Wilderness—Galiuro Mountains
Galiuro Mountains
The Galiuro Mountains are a large sky island mountain range of southeast Arizona, USA. It is a northerly mountain range in the Madrean Sky Islands region of southeast Arizona, northern Sonora, Northern Mexico, and extreme southwest, bootheel New Mexico....
Rincon Mountain Wilderness — Rincon Mountains
Rincon Mountains
The Rincon Mountains are a significant mountain range east of Tucson, Pima County, Arizona, in the United States. The Rincon Mountains are one of five mountain ranges surrounding the Tucson valley...
Salome Wilderness
Salome Wilderness
The Salome Wilderness of Tonto National Forest is a protected area in the rim country of the southwestern USA. The Salome Wilderness lies within the Sierra Ancha mountain range in Gila County, Arizona.-Ecology:...

—Sierra Ancha
Sierra Ancha
The Sierra Ancha is a mountain range in Gila County, in central Arizona. It lies between Roosevelt Lake to the south, the Tonto Basin to the west, Cherry Creek to the east, and Pleasant Valley to the north...
Salt River Canyon Wilderness
Salt River Canyon Wilderness
Salt River Canyon Wilderness is a wilderness area located within the Tonto National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona.The Salt River and its deep canyon bisect the entire length of the wilderness...

— Salt River Canyon
Santa Teresa Wilderness—Santa Teresa Mountains
Santa Teresa Mountains
The Santa Teresa Mountains are located in western Graham County, Arizona, within the Coronado National Forest and within the Santa Teresa Wilderness.-External links:*...
- See: North Santa Teresa Wilderness
Sierra Ancha Wilderness
Sierra Ancha Wilderness
The Sierra Ancha Wilderness area comprises within the Tonto National Forest, Arizona, USA. The terrain varies from box canyons to high cliffs and pine-covered mountains. Elevations range from lows of about to a high of at Aztec Peak...

—Sierra Ancha
Sierra Ancha
The Sierra Ancha is a mountain range in Gila County, in central Arizona. It lies between Roosevelt Lake to the south, the Tonto Basin to the west, Cherry Creek to the east, and Pleasant Valley to the north...
Sierra Estrella Wilderness—Sierra Estrella
Sierra Estrella
The Sierra Estrella is a mountain range located southwest of Phoenix, Arizona. Much of the range falls within the Gila River Indian Reservation, but of BLM land is protected as the Sierra Estrella Wilderness.-Description:...
Signal Mountain Wilderness—Gila Bend Mountains
Gila Bend Mountains
The Gila Bend Mountains are a 35-mile long mountain range of the north-central Sonoran Desert southwest of Phoenix, Arizona and in southwest Maricopa County....
South Maricopa Mountains Wilderness—Maricopa Mountains
- See: North Maricopa Mountains Wilderness
Strawberry Crater Wilderness—Strawberry Crater
Strawberry Crater
Strawberry Crater is a 6526 ft cinder cone volcano in the San Francisco volcanic field, 20 miles North of Flagstaff, Arizona, in between the boundaries of the Wupatki National Monument and Sunset Crater National Monument in Arizona Wilderness lands...
Superstition Wilderness — Superstition Mountains
Superstition Mountains
The Superstition Mountains , popularly referred to as "The Superstitions", are a range of mountains in Arizona located to the east of the Phoenix metropolitan area...
Swansea Wilderness— Bill Williams River
Bill Williams River
The Bill Williams River is a river in western-central Arizona in Mohave County; the river proper is the northern border of La Paz County which it drains in the north, as well as areas of far western Yavapai County...

, (LCRV)
Sycamore Canyon Wilderness—Sycamore Canyon
Sycamore Canyon
Sycamore Canyon is the second largest canyon in the Arizona redrock country, after Oak Creek Canyon. The long scenic canyon reaches a maximum width of about and is located in North Central Arizona below the Mogollon Rim west and northwest of Sedona. Located within three different U.S...
Table Top Wilderness—Table Top Mountain
Tres Alamos Wilderness–Poachie Range
Poachie Range
The Poachie Range is a moderate length mountain range and massif in southeast Mohave County, Arizona, and the extreme southwest corner of Yavapai County; the range also abuts the northeast corner of La Paz County...
Trigo Mountains Wilderness
Trigo Mountains Wilderness
Trigo Mountains Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona and was established in 1990. It is located north of Yuma east of the Colorado River in an area called the Lower Colorado River Valley. It is a stretch of ridgeline of the rugged desert Trigo Mountains and is adjacent to...

—Trigo Mountains
Trigo Mountains
The Trigo Mountains is a north-south trending mountain range, bordering the Colorado River on the east in the Lower Colorado River Valley and lies north of the Colorado River as it turns east, north of Martinez Lake and the Imperial Reservoir...

—(LCRV)
Upper Burro Creek Wilderness
Upper Burro Creek Wilderness
Upper Burro Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area located in Yavapai and Mohave Counties in the U.S. state of Arizona, approximately northwest of the town of Bagdad.-Topography:...

—Burro Creek, Mohon Mountains
Wabayuma Peak Wilderness—Hualapai Mountains—
Warm Springs Wilderness
Warm Springs Wilderness
The Warm Springs Wilderness makes up the entirety of the Black Mesa and parts of the surrounding foothills, washes, alluvial fans, and valleys. The Black Mesa is the southernmost section of the Black Mountains of western Mohave County, in northwest Arizona...

—Black Mountains (Arizona)
Black Mountains (Arizona)
The Black Mountains of northwest Arizona are an extensive, mostly linear, north-south 75-mile long mountain range. It forms the north-south border of southwest Mohave County as it borders the eastern shore of the south-flowing Colorado River from Hoover Dam.The northwest, and parts of the west of...

-(Black Mesa (western Arizona)
Black Mesa (western Arizona)
The Black Mesa of northwestern Arizona is the extreme southern section of the Black Mountains.It is a notable mountain section, since the entire Warm Springs Wilderness comprises the entire mesa; it is separated to the north from the Black Hills range by a canyon and road; the north side of the...

)-(South)—(LCRV)
West Clear Creek Wilderness
West Clear Creek Wilderness
The West Clear Creek Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. West Clear Creek is formed by the junction of Willow Creek and Clover Creek in the Mogollon Rim, which is part of the Colorado Plateau; the Mogollon Rim is the major part of the Arizona transition zone at the...

—northwest Mogollon Rim
Mogollon Rim
The Mogollon Rim is a topographical and geological feature running across the U.S. state of Arizona. It extends approximately from northern Yavapai County eastward to near the border with New Mexico.-Description:...
Wet Beaver Wilderness
Wet Beaver Wilderness
Wet Beaver Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Coconino National Forest in the U.S. state of Arizona.Wet Beaver Creek is a perennial stream with one major tributary, Dry Beaver Creek. The confluence of the two is at McGuireville, Arizona...

—Mogollon Rim
Mogollon Rim
The Mogollon Rim is a topographical and geological feature running across the U.S. state of Arizona. It extends approximately from northern Yavapai County eastward to near the border with New Mexico.-Description:...
White Canyon Wilderness— White Canyon (Arizona), Apache Leap
Woodchute Wilderness—Mingus Mountain
Woolsey Peak Wilderness—Gila Bend Mountains
Gila Bend Mountains
The Gila Bend Mountains are a 35-mile long mountain range of the north-central Sonoran Desert southwest of Phoenix, Arizona and in southwest Maricopa County....

External links

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.