Wilderness Areas links in Montana


Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness

The Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness is located in south central Montana, with a small portion in northern Wyoming, just north of Yellowstone National Park.
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=1

Anaconda Pintler Wilderness

The Anaconda-Pintler wilderness straddles the Continental Divide in the Anaconda mountain range, encompassing high and rugged peaks, cirques, U-shaped valleys, and glacial morain
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=10

Bob Marshall Wilderness

Here is one of the most completely preserved mountain ecosystems in the world, the kind of wilderness most people can only imagine: rugged peaks, alpine lakes, cascading waterfalls, grassy meadows embellished with shimmering streams, a towering coniferous
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=64

Cabinet Mountains Wilderness

Encompassing over 94,000 acres, the area includes more than 20 hiking trails, 85 small lakes (many of them stocked with fish), ridgetop panoramas, and alpine meadows.
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=91

Gates of the Mountains Wilderness

Meriwether Lewis who was responsible for naming the landmark and was the first to leave a record of his passage "from the singular appearance of this place I called it the gates of the mountains."
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=200

Great Bear Wilderness

This Wilderness, on the western side of the Continental Divide, shares its southern border with Bob Marshall Wilderness, which in turn shares its southern border with Scapegoat Wilderness.
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=219

Lee Metcalf Wilderness

This Wilderness consists of not one hunk of wildland, but four separate units in the Madison Range of Montana,
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=316

Medicine Lake Wilderness

Two sections of Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge are designated together as Montana's smallest Wilderness
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=350

Mission Mountains Wilderness

Here is a land of ragged peaks with snow on them most of the year, small active glaciers, alpine lakes, meadows, clear streams that run icy cold, slablike boulders, vertical cliff faces, and talus slopes.
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=360

Rattlesnake Wilderness

The southern boundary of the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area and Wilderness (RNRAW) is just four miles north of Missoula, Montana.
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=483

Red Rock Lakes Wilderness

Of the refuge's total of about 43,500 acres, roughly three-fourths has been designated Wilderness, including the major bodies of water and surrounding marsh and grassland.
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=488

Scapegoat Wilderness

Together, the Great Bear Wilderness, the Bob Marshall Wilderness and the Scapegoat Wilderness form the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, an area of more than 1.5 million acres.
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=538

Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness

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 (RONR).
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=540

UL Bend Wilderness

UL Bend Wilderness, which is a part of the UL Bend National Wildlife Refuge that is in turn swallowed by the vast Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge (CMRNWR).
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=616

Welcome Creek Wilderness

The Welcome Creek Wilderness lies in the Rock Creek drainage about 25 miles east of Missoula, Montana.
http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=635