Desolation Wilderness
USA /
California /
South Lake Tahoe /
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/ South Lake Tahoe
World / United States / California
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Desolation Wilderness is a 63,690 acre (258 km²) federally protected wilderness area located along the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, just southwest of Lake Tahoe in El Dorado County, California. The Tahoe Rim Trail and Pacific Crest Trail pass through the wilderness. Backpacker's paradise.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desolation_Wilderness
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Coordinates: 38°55'7"N 120°10'41"W
- Yosemite National Park 85 km
- Mojave National Preserve 523 km
- Channel Islands National Park 537 km
- Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument 594 km
- Grand Canyon National Park 596 km
- The Grand Canyon (western section) 618 km
- Kofa National Wildlife Refuge 800 km
- El Pinacate / Gran Desierto de Altar 866 km
- Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge 908 km
- Pinacate 959 km
- Dicks Lake 3.2 km
- Gilmore Lake 6 km
- Lake Aloha 6.5 km
- Cascade Lake 7.8 km
- Emerald Bay 8.5 km
- Lake of the Woods 9 km
- Fallen Leaf Lake 10 km
- Upper Echo Lake 12 km
- Lower Echo Lake 14 km
- Lake Tahoe 22 km
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