The Hummingbird Springs Wilderness is a wilderness administered by the
Bureau of Land Management
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior responsible for administering federal lands, U.S. federal lands. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the BLM oversees more than of land, or one ...
(BLM). The wilderness is located in the northwest of
Maricopa County
Maricopa County () is a county in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census the population was 4,420,568, or about 62% of the state's total, making it the fourth-most populous county in the United States and ...
in northern regions of the central
Sonoran Desert
The Sonoran Desert () is a hot desert and ecoregion in North America that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the Southwestern United States (in Arizona and California). It ...
of Arizona.
The wilderness is located at the northwest end of the
Belmont Mountains; the southwest border of the wilderness is the northeast border of the
Big Horn Mountains Wilderness, of the
Big Horn Mountains (Arizona); this two-mountain region lies at the north and northwest of the small
Tonopah Desert, a desert plains region. The northwest of both mountain ranges drain northwest into Tiger Wash, in the upper-central region of a southeast flowing
Centennial Wash, a tributary to the
Gila River
The Gila River (; O'odham ima Keli Akimel or simply Akimel, Quechan: Haa Siʼil, Maricopa language: Xiil) is a tributary of the Colorado River flowing through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States. The river drains an arid watershed of ...
in central, lower elevation desert Arizona.
Sugarloaf Mountain (Arizona) is the highest elevation of the Hummingbird Springs Wilderness and the Belmont Mountains at .
[Hummingbird Springs Wilderness, Arizona Wilderness Areas.]
See also
*
List of Arizona Wilderness Areas
The National Wilderness Preservation System includes 806 wilderness areas protecting of federal land . They are managed by four agencies:
*National Park Service (NPS)
*United States Forest Service (USFS)
*United States Fish and Wildlife Service ...
References
External links
Hummingbird Springs Wilderness, Arizona Wilderness Areas – Public Lands
Hummingbird Springs Wilderness, wilderness.net
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Protected areas of Maricopa County, Arizona
Wilderness areas of Arizona
Bureau of Land Management areas in Arizona