The Mount Tipton 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 ...

in the

U.S. state In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...

Arizona Arizona is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the nort ...

. It is located in northwestern Arizona and comprises the north portion of the

Cerbat Mountains The Cerbat Mountains () is a mountain range in Mohave County in northwest Arizona immediately north of Kingman. The Cerbat Mountains and the White Hills (Arizona) adjacent north, are the dividing ranges between the Detrital Valley west, and t ...

; the Cerbat Mountains extend northwesterly from the northern edge of Kingman. Mount Tipton at is the highest peak of the Mount Tipton Wilderness. The nearest access point to the wilderness is the

Dolan Springs Dolan Springs is an Unincorporated area#United States, unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, Mohave County, Arizona, United States. The population was 1,989 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 c ...

community located on the northwest flank of the Cerbat Mountains and directly west of the wilderness area. Five access routes are described for the wilderness. Besides hiking trails during seasonally good weather, attractions of the wilderness are wild

mustang The mustang is a free-roaming horse of the Western United States, descended from horses brought to the Americas by the Spanish conquistadors. Mustangs are often referred to as wild horses, but because they are descended from once-domesticate ...

horses. Besides the peak at Mount Tipton, the Cerbat Pinnacles is a rockscape attraction on the north of the Cerbat Mountains. Some vegetation species found in the wilderness are, a

Ponderosa Pine ''Pinus ponderosa'', commonly known as the ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine, western yellow-pine, or filipinus pine, is a very large pine tree species of variable habitat native to mountainous regions of western North America. It is t ...

stand on Mount Tipton; also pinon pine,

manzanita Manzanita is a common name for many species of the genus '' Arctostaphylos''. They are evergreen shrubs or small trees present in the chaparral biome of western North America, where they occur from Southern British Columbia and Washington to O ...

, and

ceanothus ''Ceanothus'' is a genus of about 50–60 species of nitrogen-fixing shrubs and small trees in the buckthorn family (Rhamnaceae). Common names for members of this genus are buckbrush, California lilac, soap bush, or just ceanothus. ''"Ceanothus" ...

; this is part of a piñon-juniper woodland.

External links

BLM Mount Tipton Wilderness site

Public Lands Mount Tipton Wilderness site

map and area

National Wilderness Preservation System: Mount Tipton Wilderness site
{{authority control Wilderness areas of Arizona Wilderness areas within the Lower Colorado River Valley Protected areas of Mohave County, Arizona Bureau of Land Management areas in Arizona Protected areas established in 1990 1990 establishments in Arizona

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