Mountain Lakes Wilderness

Mountain Lakes Wilderness
IUCN Category Ib (Wilderness Area)
Location	Oregon, USA
Nearest city	Klamath Falls, Oregon
Coordinates	42°21′0″N 122°6′0″W / 42.35, -122.1
Area	acre ( ha)
Established	September 3, 1964
Governing body	U.S. Forest Service

The Mountain Lakes Wilderness is located in the Fremont-Winema National Forests in the southern Cascade Range of Oregon, USA. It surrounds a cluster of four overlapping shield volcanoes, the highest of which is  ft ( m) Aspen Butte. Over 20 small lakes lie nestled along the bottoms of several large large cirques carved by Ice Age glaciers near the summits of the volcanoes.

The Mountain Lakes Wilderness is unique among United States wilderness areas in that it is the only one whose borders form a square, occupying the  sq mi ( km²) area of a single survey township.

References

• Carver, Gary Allen (1972). Glacial Geology of the Mountain Lakes Wilderness and Adjacent Parts of the Cascade Range Oregon. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Washington. 

External links

• Fremont-Winema National Forests: Mountain Lakes Wilderness (official USFS site) Caveat: Please note the story of the geological origin of the Mountain Lakes Wilderness presented on the USFS site is not correct; see the reference above (Carver, 1972) for an accurate geological history.

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