White Pine Range Wilderness

White Pine Range Wilderness is a 40,013-acre protected area in southwestern White Pine County, Nevada, within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest near Ely and adjoining the Currant Mountain Wilderness to the south. Created by the White Pine County Conservation, Recreation and Development Act of 2006 and administered by the U.S. Forest Service, it preserves a high, dry eastern Nevada landscape of rocky canyons and forested alpine hills. Its vegetation includes white fir, single-leaf pinyon, limber pine, and Great Basin bristlecone pine, reflecting the region’s distinctive alpine ecology.

Preston, Nevada · United States