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La Madre Mountain and the La Madre
Wilderness lay roughly 12 miles west of Las Vegas, Nevada. The
Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service jointly manage
this Wilderness Area. The La Madre is comparatively large wilderness
area located between to the Mt. Charleston and Rainbow Mountain
Wilderness areas, totaling approximately 127,000 combined acres
of designated wilderness.
The wilderness is a complex of canyons, ridges and peaks with
red and tan sandstone outcroppings in the lower elevations. Elevations
vary from 3,600 feet in Brownstone Basin to 9,600 feet at La Madre
Mountain. At 9,425 feet the highest point in the wilderness area
is on the far west side, on the crest of the Spring Mountains
south of Griffith Peak. La Madre Ridge is the most prominent feature
at 8,154 feet. The La Madre Wilderness provides habitat for bighorn
sheep and divers flora. It also contains many archaeological sites. |
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