Manly Peak Wilderness is a

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 ...

wilderness area in

Inyo County, California Inyo County () is a County (United States), county in the Eastern California, eastern central part of the U.S. state of California, located between the Sierra Nevada and the state of Nevada. In the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the po ...

. The area was established in 1994 through the California Desert Protection Act and sits on the border of

Death Valley National Park Death Valley National Park is a national park of the United States that straddles the California–Nevada border, east of the Sierra Nevada. The park boundaries include Death Valley, the northern section of Panamint Valley, the southern sect ...

. Manly Peak, named for pioneer William Lewis Manly, dominates the area at a height of .

Creosote bush scrub Creosote bush scrub is a North American desert vegetation type (or biome) of sparsely but evenly spaced desert plants dominated by creosote bush (''Larrea tridentata'') and its associates. Its visual characterization is of widely spaced shrubs th ...

dominates the lower elevations, changing to piñon-juniper woodlands at higher elevations.

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U.S. Geological Survey Map
at the U.S. Geological Survey Map Website. Retrieved 15 March 2024. Protected areas established in 1994 1994 establishments in California Protected areas of Inyo County, California Bureau of Land Management areas in California {{Protected-area-stub