After thumbing through one of my hiking books on Arizona wilderness areas in Arizona, I realized how very few of them I’ve visited. Sure, I’ve been to the more popular ones, like the Superstitions and the two in Sedona, on a great many occasions. But, I’ve still only managed to visit about 10% of them, mostly because I haven’t owned a high clearance 4WD vehicle. Lots of people worked very hard to get those places designated–and I call many of them colleagues–so I thought it made sense to set another outings goal: to visit each wilderness area in the state. I’m still without the the necessary vehicle, but I hope to change that soon. My progress is listed below; you can see which areas I’ve “marked off” the list and how many (!) I still have left to experience.
BLM Wilderness Areas
Aravaipa Canyon- Arrastra Mountain
- Aubrey Peak
- Beaver Dam Mountains
- Big Horn Mountains
- Boboquivari Peak
- Cottonwood Point
- Coyote Mountains
- Dos Cabezas Mountains
Eagletail MountainsEast Cactus Plain- Fishhooks
- Gibraltar Mountain
- Grand Wash Cliffs
- Harcuvar Mountains
Harquahala Mountains- Hassayampa River Canyon
- Hells Canyon
- Hummingbird Springs
Kanab Creek- Mount Logan
- Mount Nutt
- Mount Tipton
- Mount Trumbull
- Mount Wilson
- Muggins Mountains
- Needle’s Eye
- New Water Mountains
- North Maricopa Mountains
- North Santa Teresa
- Paiute
- Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs
- Peloncillo Mountains
Rawhide Mountains- Redfield Canyon
- Sierra Estrella
- Signal Mountain
- South Maricopa Mountains
- Swansea
- Table Top
- Tres Alamos
- Trigo Mountains
- Upper Burro Creek
- Wabayuma Peak
- Warm Springs
- White Canyon
- Woolsey Peak
USFWS Wilderness Areas
- Cabeza Prieta Refuge
- Imperial Refuge
Kofa Refuge
NPS Wilderness Areas
- Grand Canyon
- Organ Pipe
Petrified ForestSaguaro East- Saguaro West
USFS Wilderness Areas
Bear Wallow- Castle Creek
- Cedar Bench
- Chiricahua
- Escudilla
Fossil Springs- Four Peaks
- Galiuro
- Granite Mountain
- Hellsgate
- Juniper Mesa
- Kachina Peaks
Kanab Creek- Kendrick Mountain
- Mazatzal
- Miller Peak
- Mount Baldy
- Mount Wrightson
- Munds Mountain
- Pajarita
- Pine Mountain
- Pusch Ridge
- Red Rock-Secret Mountain
- Rincon Mountain
- Saddle Mountain
- Salome
- Salt River Canyon
- Santa Teresa
- Sierra Ancha
- Strawberry Crater
- Superstition
Sycamore Canyon- West Clear Creek
Wet Beaver- Woodchute
[Blue Range Primitive Area]