List of LCRV Wilderness Areas (Colorado River)

This is a list of adjoining wilderness areas for the "Lower Colorado River Valley". The List of "Lower Colorado River Valley" Wilderness Areas (Colorado River) is separated into the west side of the Colorado River: California-Nevada–and the east side of the Colorado River: for Arizona.

West-bank, East-bank wilderness areas

The numbered "Mountain ranges" abut the Colorado River proper, and are somewhat arbitrary. (Though the river flows north to south, a few ranges are East–West, or Northwest–Southeast, per the original Basin and Range faulting.)
"List of Wilderness Areas" at top and bottom of lists."

*"(- I -)" "Eldorado Wilderness", (Nevada) *"(- II -)" North McCullough Wilderness, (Nevada) *"(- III -)" Spirit Mountain Wilderness, (Nevada) *"(- IV -)" Mojave National Preserve *"(- V -)" Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness *"(- VI -)" Dead Mountains Wilderness *"(- VII -)" Chemehuevi Mountains Wilderness *"(- VIII -)" Whipple Mountains Wilderness *"(- IX -)" "Turtle Mountains" "Wilderness" *West Bank–Colorado Riv. *.. **"Mojave Desert" *"(Boulder City, Nevada)" *"1–"El Dorado Mountains–"Nevada" *El Dorado Canyon, (Nelson, Nev.) *"2–"Newberry Mountains (Nevada) *Pyramid Canyon *"3–"Piute Range–"Calif/Nevada" **Lanfair Valley, Piute Range–"Calif/Nevada" *New York Mountains-(Mojave National Preserve)–"Calif/Nevada" *.. *Turtle Mountains"4–"Sacramento Mountains (California) **Chemehuevi Valley *Turtle Mountains,"5–"-Whipple Mountains *Turtle Mountains,"5.5–"Nopah Range-Vidal Valley *.. *"6–"Riverside Mountains *"Sand dunes",--Rice Valley *Big Maria Mountains *Little Maria Mountains,"7–"Big Maria Mountains *"8–"McCoy Mountains *Palo Verde Valley *"9–"Mule Mountains (California) *.. *.. *"10–"Chuckwalla Mountains *"11–"Chocolate Mountains *... *.. **"12–"Imperial Dam Long Term Visitor Area=Senator Wash Hills **Algodones Dunes *"13–"Cargo Muchacho Mountains *Little Picacho Wilderness *.. *.. *"Colorado Desert"–"W. Sonoran Des." *.. *West Bank–Colorado Riv. *"(- X -)" Riverside Mountains Wilderness *"(- XI -)" Rice Valley Wilderness *"(- XII -)" Big Maria Mountains Wilderness *"(- XIII -)" Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness *"(- IX -)" Picacho Peak Wilderness *"(- X -)" "Little Picacho Wilderness"

*"(- I -)" "Mount Wilson Wilderness" *"(- II -)" Mount Tipton Wilderness *"(- III -)" Wabayuma Peak Wilderness *"(- IV -)" Mount Nutt Wilderness *"(- V -)" Warm Springs Wilderness *"(- VI -) Havasu Lake *"(- VII -)" Aubrey Peak Wilderness *"(- VIII -)" Arrastra Mountain Wilderness *"(- IX -)" Swansea Wilderness *"(- X -)" "Rawhide Mountains" "Wilderness" *East Bank–Colorado Riv. *"Lake Mead" *Black Mtns: "Mount Wilson (5445 ft)" *Detrital Plain, White Hills *"1–"Black Mountains, Cerbat Mountains **Sacramento Valley (Arizona) *"2–"Black Mesa (western Arizona), Hualapai Mountains *"Mohave Valley, "2.5–"Black Mesa (western Arizona) *"3–"Mohave Mountains **Dutch Flat *Dutch Flat, McCracken Mountains, Poachie Range *Rawhide Mountains **"Mojave Desert" **"Bill Williams River" **and the "Big Sandy River (Arizona)"-(Kingman, Arizona) *"4–"Buckskin Mountains **"Buckskin Mountain State Park" **Cactus Plain *"La Posa Plain", Plomosa Mountains *"5–"Dome Rock Mountains, Harcuvar Mountains *Kofa Mountains *Castle Dome Mountains *"6–"Trigo Mountains, Chocolate Mountains (Arizona) **Castle Dome Plain *Yuma Proving Ground *Laguna Mountains (Arizona)"7–"Muggins Mountains **"Gila River" *Laguna Mountains (Arizona) **"Yuma Desert" *"8–"Gila Mountains (Yuma County), Tinajas Altas Mountains, Lechuguilla Desert **"Sonoran Desert" **Reserva de la Biosfera el Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar *.. *East Bank–Colorado Riv. *"(- XI -)" Aubrey Peak Wilderness *"(- XII -)" Arrastra Mountain Wilderness *"(- XIII -)" Swansea Wilderness *"(- X -)" Rawhide Mountains Wilderness *Bill Williams River *"(- xx -)" Rawhide Mountains Wilderness *"(- xx -)" Swansea Wilderness *"(- XIV -)" Gibralter Mountain Wilderness *"(- XV -)" East Cactus Plain Wilderness *"(- XVI -)" New Water Mountains Wilderness//Kofa National Wildlife Refuge *"(- XVII -)" Trigo Mountains Wilderness *"(- XVIII -)" "Muggins Mountains" "Wilderness"

The western route parallelling the Colorado River, covers more plains, of the Colorado Desert/Mojave Desert, rising to, and down from various "mountain passes", (for example south of Needles, California(the Sacramento Mountains (California)), or Searchlight, Nevada). Washes-(no rivers), drain from the west into the Lower Colorado River, south from Lake Mead-Hoover Dam.

Alphabetical list

*NEVADA *Eldorado Wildernaes *North McCullough Wilderness *Spirit Mountain Wilderness *CALIFORNIA *Big Maria Mountains Wilderness *Bigelow Cholla Garden Wilderness *Chemehuevi Mountains Wilderness *Dead Mountains Wilderness *Little Picacho Wilderness *Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness *Picacho Peak Wilderness *Rice Valley Wilderness *Riverside Mountains Wilderness *Turtle Mountains Wilderness *Whipple Mountains Wilderness

*ARIZONA *Arrastra Mountain Wilderness *Aubrey Peak Wilderness *East Cactus Plain Wilderness *Gibralter Mountain Wilderness *Havasu Lake Wilderness *Mount Nutt Wilderness *Mount Tipton Wilderness *Mount Wilson Wilderness *Muggins Mountains Wilderness *New Water Mountains Wilderness *Rawhide Mountains Wilderness *Swansea Wilderness *Trigo Mountains Wilderness *Wabayuma Peak Wilderness *Warm Springs Wilderness

External links

*Northern Arizona:Wilderness.net-- [http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=stateView&state=az&
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*Southern Arizona: Wilderness.net-- [http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=stateView&state=az&
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*Southeast California:Wilderness.net-- [http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=stateView&state=ca&
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