Saddle Peak Hills Wilderness is a protected area in the California desert, designated on 21 October 1994 under the California Desert Protection Act and notable as the smallest wilderness created by that law. Before protection, the land was studied for minerals, and a 1980 Bureau of Land Management report opposed wilderness designation because copper, lead, silver, and especially talc deposits were thought likely to be commercially viable; some had already been mined. The area contains significant talc deposits and is mostly covered by creosote bush and allscale scrub. Although no sensitive plants or rare wildlife are known there, a sandy three-square-mile area provides habitat for the Mojave fringe-toed lizard.