Wilderness Areas links in Idaho

Over the past 15,000 years, and as recently as 2,100 years ago, repeated volcanic eruptions along the Great Rift spilled huge amounts of lava across the Snake River Plain in south central Idaho. After the molten rock cooled, vast lava fields covering over

Few places in America, and nowhere outside of Alaska, provide a Wilderness experience to match the sheer magnitude of the Frank Church-River of No Return, the second largest unit of the National Wilderness Preservation System in the Lower 48 (second in si

Long before explorers Lewis and Clark first laid eyes on this region in 1805, Nez Perce Indians were hunting the elk, deer, and black bears whose descendants still roam here. All of the wilderness is in Idaho and is managed by the Forest Service. The Gos

The Idaho side of the Wilderness, which lies in parts of Nez Perce and Payette National Forests, is smaller than the Oregon side. The main Idaho-side trailheads start at Black Lake, Windy Saddle, and Pittsburg Landing.

The Sawtooth Mountains have long been recognized for their exceptional beauty and wild qualities. As the name suggests, this spectacular wilderness is comprised of hundreds of jagged peaks, 42 over 10,000 feet in height, with hundreds of high alpine lak

Selway-Bitterroot is the third largest Wilderness in the Lower 48, surpassed in size only by California's Death Valley Wilderness and Idaho's Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness. This vast wildland is one of the roughest mountain areas on earth, a