Wasatch–Cache National Forest spread across northern Utah, with smaller sections in southeastern Idaho and southwestern Wyoming, and before its 2007 merger with Uinta National Forest it covered 1,607,177 acres. Its name combined Wasatch, from a Ute word for a low place in high mountains, and Cache, a French term tied to early fur trappers’ hiding places. The forest consisted of Cache and Wasatch sections and was managed from Salt Lake City with ranger offices across the region. About a quarter of the forest, roughly 309,000 acres, lay in seven designated wilderness areas, including the High Uintas Wilderness, its largest protected backcountry area.