National Parks with Wilderness

 

Sleeping Bear Dunes Wilderness

NPS Photo

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

NPS/Alicia Burton

Many national parks have "other categories of wilderness" - lands not designated, but managed as wilderness per NPS policy. Together with NPS designated wilderness, this means over 80 percent of all NPS lands are managed as wilderness.