National Parks with Wilderness

 

Sleeping Bear Dunes Wilderness

NPS Photo

Designated Wilderness

50 national parks have designated wilderness, totaling more than 44 million acres. The Sleeping Bear Dunes Wilderness in Michigan, designated in 2014, is the newest NPS designated wilderness area. In 2019, the Death Valley Wilderness was expanded as part of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act.

 

Grand Canyon National Park Proposed Wilderness

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Other Categories of Wilderness

Many national parks have "other categories of wilderness" - lands not designated, but managed as wilderness per NPS policy. This includes the categories of eligible, proposed, recommended, and potential wilderness. Together with NPS designated wilderness, this means over 80 percent of all NPS lands are managed as wilderness.

 

Learn more about all categories of NPS wilderness

Visit the NPS Wilderness Categories webpage to learn more about eligible, proposed, recommended, designated, and potential wilderness.

 

Park-Specific Wilderness Webpages

Are you looking for wilderness information about a specific national park? Check out this list of park-specific wilderness webpages to learn more. And check back often as this list will continue to grow!

 

A - E

• Arches National Park
• Canyonlands National Park
• Cape Krusenstern National Monument
• Death Valley National Park
• Denali National Park & Preserve

F - J

• Fire Island National Seashore
• Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
• Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument
• Grand Teton National Park
• Gulf Islands National Seashore

J - O

• Joshua Tree National Park
• Kobuk Valley National Park
• Lake Mead National Recreation Area
• Noatak National Preserve
• Olympic National Park

P - T

• Point Reyes National Seashore
• Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks