Jarbidge Wilderness, in the Jarbidge Mountains of northeastern Nevada within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, was established under the 1964 Wilderness Act as Nevada’s first protected wilderness and expanded in 1989 to more than 113,000 acres. Its name comes from the Shoshone word for “devil,” tied to beliefs that the hills were haunted. The area contains the headwaters of the Marys and Jarbidge rivers and Salmon Falls Creek, making it important to regional watersheds. With nearly ten peaks above 10,000 feet, alpine lakes, and habitats ranging from subalpine forest to sagebrush steppe, it remains one of Nevada’s defining remote mountain landscapes.