The Clackamas Wilderness is a

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 ...

located in the

Mount Hood National Forest The Mount Hood National Forest is a U.S. National Forest in the U.S. state of Oregon, located east of the city of Portland and the northern Willamette River The Willamette River ( ) is a major tributary of the Columbia River, accounting fo ...

in the northwestern Cascades of

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. Created by the

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, it consists of . The wilderness is made up of five different tracts of lands with no roads on a stretch on both sides of the

Clackamas River The Clackamas River is an approximately tributary of the Willamette River in northwestern Oregon, in the United States. Draining an area of about , the Clackamas flows through mostly forested and rugged mountainous terrain in its upper reaches, a ...

. These areas include Big Bottom, Memaloose Lake, Clackamas Canyon, Sisi Butte and South Fork Clackamas. It has some of the biggest trees in northwest

. Memaloose Lake is a very popular hiking trail that leads through a forest to the lake, and then continues a mile up to a viewpoint on to up South Fork Mountain.

References

External links

Photo of Whale Creek
in the wilderness by Philip A. Knouf
U.S. Geological Survey Map
at the U.S. Geological Survey Map Website. Retrieved March 30, 2023. {{Protected Areas of Oregon Wilderness areas of Oregon Mount Hood National Forest Protected areas established in 2009 2009 establishments in Oregon