Aubrey Peak Wilderness
Aubrey Peak Wilderness | |
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Location | Mohave County, Arizona, U.S. |
Nearest city | Lake Havasu City, Arizona |
Coordinates | 34°24′05″N 113°48′53″W / 34.4014050°N 113.8146608°W[1]Coordinates: 34°24′05″N 113°48′53″W / 34.4014050°N 113.8146608°W[1] |
Area | 15,400 acres (6,230 ha)[2] |
Designated | 1990 |
Governing body | Bureau of Land Management |
The Aubrey Peak Wilderness is a 15,400-acre (6,230 ha) wilderness administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The wilderness is located in northwest Arizona in the southwest of Mohave County, a region of the southeastern Mojave Desert's extension into northwest Arizona.
The wilderness is one of two in the Rawhide Mountains, which border the north bank of the west-flowing Bill Williams River. The other wilderness is on both sides of the river, the ; the section south of the river is in the northeast of the Buckskin Mountains, and the southeast of the Rawhides. The Buckskin Wilderness is on the western border of Alamo Lake, of Alamo Lake State Park.
The Aubrey Peak Wilderness is about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Parker Dam, California on the Colorado River, near its confluence with the Bill Williams.
The confluence has the following sites:
Peaks of the wilderness[]
The highest elevation in the wilderness is in the Rawhide Mountains, at 2,953 feet (900 m). A taller peak with the same name is Aubrey Peak, in the Hualapai Mountains with an elevation of 5,078 feet (1,548 m).
See also[]
- List of LCRV Wilderness Areas (Colorado River)
- List of Arizona Wilderness Areas
References[]
- ^ "Aubrey Peak Wilderness". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-06-22.
- ^ "Aubrey Peak Wilderness - Kingman Field Office - BLM Arizona". Retrieved 22 April 2014.
External links[]
- IUCN Category Ib
- Protected areas of Mohave County, Arizona
- Wilderness Areas within the Lower Colorado River Valley
- Wilderness Areas of Arizona
- Protected areas of the Mojave Desert
- Bureau of Land Management areas in Arizona
- West Coast of Arizona geography stubs