Joseph Battell Wilderness

The Joseph Battell Wilderness is one of eight wilderness areas in the Green Mountain National Forest in the U.S. state of Vermont. The wilderness area, created by the New England Wilderness Act of 2006, is named in honor of Joseph Battell (1839–1915), a philanthropist and environmentalist from Middlebury, Vermont. The wilderness consists of 12336 acre managed by the U.S. Forest Service.

There are numerous mountains in the area with altitudes of at least 3000 ft, including (from south to north to east): the Great Cliffs (3000 ft), Mount Horrid (3216 ft), Cape Lookoff Mountain (3320 ft), Gillespie Peak (3366 ft), Romance Mountain (3145 ft), Worth Mountain (3234 ft), Monastery Mountain (3224 ft), and Philadelphia Peak (3203 ft). The core of the area, from Monastery Mountain to Worth Mountain to Romance Mountain, was bequeathed as a "park" to Middlebury College by Battell in 1915. Middlebury College sold nearly all of Battell's lands to the Forest Service in the 1930s and 1950s. It was the sale of these lands that prompted the Federal government to create the northern unit of the Green Mountain National Forest.

The Long Trail crosses the entire length of the Joseph Battell Wilderness from Brandon Gap on its south edge to Middlebury Gap on its north edge. The wilderness is traversed by several other hiking trails including the Sucker Brook Trail.