Search
Menu
Home
Sources
About
Contacts
Red Mountain Wilderness
The
Red
Mountain Wilderness
is a
wilderness area
in
southwestern
White Pine County
and northeastern
Nye County
, within the
White Pine Range
in the U.S. state of
Nevada
.
The Wilderness
lies
within the
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
, administered by the U.S. Forest Service.
Bordered by
Currant Mountain Wilderness
on
the west
, the
Red Mountain
Wilderness and
White Pine Range Wilderness
was created by the "White
Pine County
Conservation,
Recreation
and
Development
Act of
2006
." It is characterized by volcanic
red-orange
hills
and
mountains
covered
with
pinyon pine
,
limber pine
, and
bristlecone pine
.