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Why Visit Wilderness?
Learn more about the diverse ways in which we benefit from wilderness and threats wilderness areas face today.
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Search for a wilderness as the destination for your next outdoor adventure.
While wilderness can be appreciated from afar—through online content, television, or books—nothing compares to experiencing it firsthand. Activities like camping, hiking, or hunting allow you to fully enjoy the recreational, ecological, spiritual, and health benefits that wilderness areas offer. These areas provide “outstanding opportunities for solitude or a primitive and unconfined type of recreation,” chances to observe wildlife, moments to renew and refresh, and the physical benefits of outdoor exercise. In many wilderness areas, you can even bring your well-behaved dog.
Learn more about the diverse ways in which we benefit from wilderness and threats wilderness areas face today.
How to follow the seven standard Leave No Trace principles differs in different parts of the country (desert vs. Rocky Mountains). Click on any of the principles listed below to learn more about how they apply in the South Egan Range Wilderness.
For more information on Leave No Trace, Visit the Leave No Trace, Inc. website.
The South Egan Range Wilderness is located in the Egan Range in White Pine, Lincoln and Nye Counties approximately two miles west of Lund, Nevada. Access to the South Egan Range Wilderness Area from Ely is via Federal Highway 6 southbound approximately 20 miles to State Highway 318. State Route 318 parallels the western boundary of the wilderness area. There are a number of dirt roads that lead to the boundary off State Highway 318.
Digital and paper maps are critical tools for wilderness visitors. Online maps can help you plan and prepare for your visit ahead of time. You can also carry digital maps with you on your GPS unit or other handheld GPS device. Having a paper map with you in the backcountry, as well as solid orienteering skills, however, ensures that you can still route-find in the event that your electronic device fails.
Motorized equipment and equipment used for mechanical transport is generally prohibited in all wilderness areas. This includes the use of motor vehicles, motorboats, motorized equipment, bicycles, hang gliders, wagons, carts, portage wheels, and the landing of aircraft including helicopters.
Date: December 20, 2006
Acreage: 67,214 acres
Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 - Public law 109-432 (12/20/2006) To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend expiring provisions, and for other purposes.
For more information (To download or see all affected Wilderness areas) visit our law library for 109-432 or special provisions for 109-432 or legislative history for 109-432 for this law.
Recreational opportunities include camping, hiking, backpacking, horseback riding, and hunting. Solitude can be found in any of the many small drainages and washes that run down from the ridgeline. A variety of trees also provide excellent cover throughout the range. See area management for regulations.
Much of the central portion of the wilderness burned in the 2012 Egan Fire. Roads have washed out and may be impassible.
Contact the Ely District Office for current road conditions and hazards.
People who volunteer their time to steward our wilderness areas are an essential part of wilderness management. Contact the following groups to inquire about volunteer opportunities. Groups are listed alphabetically by the state(s) in which the wilderness is located.