Mount Evans Wilderness
wilderness area in Colorado, U.S
Facts
16 properties- Instance of
- US Wilderness Area
- Inception
- 1980[8]
- Country
- United States[4]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 39.588°, -105.643°[10]
- Area
- 73,459 acre[14]
- Continent
- North America[5]
- Elevation above sea level
- 14,249 foot[13]
- Highest point
- Mount Blue Sky[9]
- IUCN protected areas category
- IUCN category Ib: Wilderness Area[11]
- Imported from
- wholeness_audit_2026-05-02
- Located in protected area
- Arapaho National Forest, Pike National Forest[15][16]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Clear Creek County, Park County[2][3]
- Named after
- Mount Blue Sky[7]
- Native label
- Mount Evans Wilderness[12]
- Operator
- United States Forest Service[6]
- Significant place
- Idaho Springs[17]
🏷️ Also known as
en Mount Evans Wilderness
🔖 Identifiers · 8
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Mt Evans.JPG ↗
- Freebase ID
- /m/09v20b7
- GNIS Feature ID
- 197678
- GeoNames ID
- 5432005
- OpenStreetMap relation ID
- 5718244
- PLIA ID
- 6228
- WDPA ID
- 372071
- Wilderness Connect ID
- 373
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