The Boundary Peak Wilderness is a protected

wilderness area Wilderness or wildlands (usually in the plural) are Earth's natural environments that have not been significantly modified by human activity, or any nonurbanized land not under extensive agricultural cultivation. The term has traditionally ...

in the White Mountains of Esmeralda County, in the western section of the state of

Nevada Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, th ...

in the western

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. The wilderness covers an area of approximately 10,000 acres (40 km²), and is administered by the

Inyo National Forest Inyo National Forest is a United States National Forest covering parts of the eastern Sierra Nevada of California and the White Mountains of California and Nevada. The forest hosts several superlatives, including Mount Whitney, the highest p ...

. Boundary Peak, the highest point in Nevada, is the namesake and within the Boundary Peak Wilderness.

External links

NevadaWilderness.org: Boundary Peak Wilderness
Wilderness areas of Nevada Inyo National Forest White Mountains (California) Protected areas of Esmeralda County, Nevada Protected areas of the Great Basin IUCN Category Ib {{EsmeraldaCountyNV-geo-stub