Ads
related to: northern wilderness lodge missanabie river campground california camping
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Today, the river is used for canoeing, fishing, and camping. Recreational use is facilitated by an arrangement which allows canoeists to load their boats on a train so they can be returned south, after canoeing the wild stretches of the river. The river is managed as a provincial waterway park and was designated as a Canadian Heritage River in ...
The camp is located 7.2 miles (11.6 km) south of Tuolumne Meadows Lodge, and 7.6 miles (12.2 km) northeast of the Merced Lake High Sierra Camp by the Fletcher Creek Trail. An alternate route, which crosses Vogelsang Pass at 10,480 feet (3,190 m) [ 13 ] and then takes the Lewis Creek Trail to Merced Lake, is 8.4 miles (13.5 km).
The forest includes four wilderness areas: Sanhedrin Wilderness - 10,571 acres (42.78 km 2) Snow Mountain Wilderness — 60,076 acres (243.12 km 2) Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness — 180,877 acres (731.98 km 2) (partly in Trinity NF, Six Rivers NF, or on BLM land) Yuki Wilderness - 53,887 acres (218.07 km 2) (partly on BLM land)
The park contains over 87,000 acres (35,000 ha), making it the largest state park in northern California, and the second-largest in the state (after Anza-Borrego Desert State Park). Managed within its boundaries is a designated wilderness area of about 22,000 acres (8,900 ha).
The Snow Mountain Wilderness is a 60,076-acre (243.12 km 2) federally designated wilderness area located 65 miles (105 km) north of Santa Rosa, California, USA in the Mendocino National Forest. The U.S. Congress passed the California Wilderness Act of 1984 which created 23 new wilderness areas including Snow Mountain. [ 1 ]
Another large wilderness created in the 1970s was the Ventana Wilderness in the Santa Lucia Mountains. The Los Padres Condor Range and River Protection Act of 1992 expanded existing wilderness by 84,400 acres (34,200 ha) and designated 316,050 acres (127,900 ha) of new wilderness that provides habitat for the condor. A total of 48% of the total ...