White River National Forest
White River National Forest offers sharp contrasts of outdoor opportunities including highly developed year-round recreation near resorts as well as access to primitive backcountry including eight designated Wilderness areas.
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Wilderness Areas/Wild & Scenic Rivers
Collegiate Peaks Wilderness - All of this wilderness is located in Colorado and lies in part of three national forests; the White River, Gunnison and Pike San Isabel.
Eagles Nest Wilderness - The area is known for its excellent hiking and backpacking on approximately 180 miles of trails that can be accessed from the towns of Silverthorne, Frisco and Vail, Colorado.
Flat Tops Wilderness - Flat Tops, also known as the “Cradle of Wilderness,” is where the idea of wilderness was first applied to public land.
Holy Cross Wilderness - The wilderness is characterized by rugged ridgelines and glacier-carved valleys, spruce-fir forests, cascading streams and dozens of lakes; elevations range from 8,500 feet to 14,005 feet.
Hunter-Fryingpan Wilderness - This area encompasses forests of aspen in the lower elevations and thick spruce and fir at the higher elevations as well as open areas of unique alpine tundra that display colorful wildflowers in the summer.
Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness - The Wilderness area surrounds the extremely popular Maroon Bells Scenic Area which is a major access point for Wilderness travel.
Ptarmigan Peak Wilderness - You will not find many trails in this Wilderness and, as a result, have a better opportunity for solitude.
Raggeds Wilderness - Prominent rocky slopes point upward to a serrated ridge which gives Raggeds Wilderness its name.
Invasive Species
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