Emigrant Wilderness

The 113,000-acre Emigrant Wilderness is entirely within the Stanislaus National Forest, on the upper western slope of the central Sierra Nevada range. Bordered on the south by Yosemite National Park and on the east by the Hoover Wilderness, this Wilderness measures roughly 25 miles long and 15 miles wide and is entirely within Tuolumne County. Major watersheds drain to the Stanislaus and Tuolumne rivers and its name is derived from the emigrant parties who crossed the Sierra Nevada