Wasatch–Cache National Forest



Wasatch–Cache National Forest is a United States National Forest located primarily in northern Utah (81.23%), with smaller parts extending into southeastern Idaho (16.42%) and southwestern Wyoming (2.35%). The name is derived from the Ute word Wasatch for a low place in high mountains, and the French word Cache meaning to hide. The term cache originally referred to fur trappers, the first Europeans to visit the land. The Wasatch–Cache National Forest boundaries include 1607177 acre of land.

Wasatch–Cache was headquartered in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah until August 2007 when its management was combined with the Uinta National Forest and is currently being managed as the Uinta–Wasatch–Cache National Forest. The merged forest is based out of South Jordan, Utah. The Kamas Ranger District was merged with the Uinta National Forest's Heber Ranger District in Heber City. With the newly included Uinta National Forest the forest will expand to 2487896 acre.

The Cache National Forest portion is located in northern Utah and southern Idaho. It has a land area of 701,453 acres (1,096 sq mi, or 2,838.7 km2). In descending order of land area it is located in parts of Cache, Bear Lake, Franklin, Weber, Rich, Box Elder, Caribou, and Morgan counties. (Bear Lake, Franklin, and Caribou counties are in Idaho, with the rest being in Utah.) There are local ranger district offices located in Logan and Ogden.

The Wasatch National Forest portion is located in northeastern Utah and southwestern Wyoming. It has a land area of 905,724 acres (1,415.2 sq mi, or 3,365.3 km2). In descending order of land area it is located in parts of Summit, Tooele, Salt Lake, Davis, Uinta, Duchesne, Wasatch, Morgan, Utah, Weber, and Juab counties. (Uinta County is in Wyoming, with the rest being in Utah.) There are local ranger district offices located in Evanston and Mountain View in Wyoming, and in Kamas, and Salt Lake City in Utah.

Wilderness areas
There are seven designated wilderness areas in the Wasatch–Cache National Forest, totalling approximately 309000 acre and comprising approximately 25% of the Forest's total acreage.

Logan District
 * Mount Naomi Wilderness at 44523 acre
 * Wellsville Mountain Wilderness at 22986 acre

Kamas, Evanston and Mountain View Districts
 * High Uintas Wilderness at 456705 acre (shared with Ashley National Forest)

Salt Lake District
 * Mount Olympus Wilderness at 15856 acre
 * Twin Peaks Wilderness at 11796 acre
 * Lone Peak Wilderness at 30088 acre (shared with Uinta National Forest)
 * Deseret Peak Wilderness at 25508 acre