Wilderness Study Areas

Below is a list of Nevada’s Wilderness Study Areas. These are primarily areas that the BLM identified as having wilderness character and must be protected until Congress decides whether or not to designate them as wilderness. A few of Nevada's Wilderness Study Areas are recommended and managed by agencies other than the BLM. Click on an area to learn more about these special places.

Antelope Range Wilderness Study Area
Augusta Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Bad Lands Wilderness Study Area
Blue Eagle Wilderness Study Area
Bluebell Wilderness Study Area
Boundary Peak Wilderness Additions
Buffalo Hills Wilderness Study Area
Burbank Canyons Wilderness Study Area
Cedar Ridge Wilderness Study Area
China Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Clan Alpine Wilderness Study Area
Desatoya Mountains Wilderness Study Area
Disaster Peak Wilderness Study Area
Dry Valley Rim Wilderness Study Area
Fandango Wilderness Study Area
Five Springs Wilderness Study Area
Fox Range Wilderness Study Area
Gabbs Valley Range Wilderness Study Area
Goshute Peak Wilderness Study Area
Grapevine Mountains Wilderness Study Area
Job Peak Wilderness Study Area
Kawich Wilderness Study Area
Lahontan Cutthroat Trout Instant Study Area
Little Humboldt River Wilderness Study Area
Massacre Rim Wilderness Study Area
Million Hills Wilderness Study Area
Morey Peak Wilderness Study Area
Mount Limbo Wilderness Study Area
Mount Stirling Wilderness Study Area
Mountain Meadow Instant Study Area
North Fork of the Little Humboldt River Wilderness Study Area
Owyhee Canyon Wilderness Study Area
Palisade Mesa Wilderness Study Area
Park Range Wilderness Study Area
Pigeon Springs Wilderness Study Area
Pinyon Joshua Instant Study Area
Pole Creek Wilderness Study Area
Poodle Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Pueblo Mountains Wilderness Study Area
Queer Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Rawhide Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Red Spring Wilderness Study Area
Resting Springs Wilderness Study Area
Riordan`s Well Wilderness Study Area
Roberts Mountain Wilderness Study Area
Rough Hills Wilderness Study Area
Selenite Mountains Wilderness Study Area
Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Study Areas
Sheldon Contiguous Wilderness Study Area
Silver Peak Wilderness Study Area & Additions
Simpson Park Wilderness Study Area
Skedaddle Wilderness Study Area
South Fork Owyhee River Wilderness Study Area
South Pequop Wilderness Study Area
South Reveille Wilderness Study Area
Stillwater Range Wilderness Study Area
Sunrise Mountain Instant Study Area
The Wall Wilderness Study Area
Tobin Range Wilderness Study Area
Twin Peaks Wilderness Study Area
Virgin Peak Instant Study Area
Wall Canyon Wilderness Study Area


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