Mingo Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 107
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=359
Wilderness | Mingo Wilderness
State | MO
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 2/25/2019
WID | 359
Abbreviated Name | Mingo
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/mingo.jpg
Acreage | 7730
Description | Eighteen thousand years ago, the Mississippi River flowed through this area on its way to the Gulf of Mexico. Because of natural events, the river shifted east forming a biologically rich swampland comprised...
Agency | FWS
joinerID | 359FWS
Designated | 1976
ORIG_FID | 41353
Missouri Wildernesses

Bell Mountain Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 469
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=35
Wilderness | Bell Mountain Wilderness
State | MO
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 12/27/2021
WID | 35
Abbreviated Name | Bell_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/BellMountain.jpg
Acreage | 9183
Description | Named for a family that once farmed here, Bell Mountain protects a predominately oak-hickory forest interspersed with pine and elm, scattered grassy glades with lichen-covered granite outcroppings, and...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 35FS
Designated | 1980
ORIG_FID | 44305
Missouri Wildernesses

Devils Backbone Wilderness
OBJECTID_1 | 491
Website | https://wilderness.net/visit-wilderness/?ID=156
Wilderness | Devils Backbone Wilderness
State | MO
Comment | <Null>
Date of Last Update | 12/27/2021
WID | 156
Abbreviated Name | Devils_Backbone
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/DevilsBackbone.jpg
Acreage | 6691
Description | A long, narrow ridge (the backbone) supports the center of this Wilderness, with 1,020 feet at its highest elevation. Thirteen miles of maintained foot and horse trails follow the Devils Backbone and four...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 156FS
Designated | 1980
ORIG_FID | 44328
Missouri Wildernesses

Hercules-Glades Wilderness
Wilderness | Hercules-Glades Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Hercules_Glades
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/HerculesGlades.jpg
Description | Some of the most scenic country in Missouri, perhaps in the Midwest, lies protected by the Hercules Glades Wilderness: open grassland, forested knobs, steep rocky hillsides, limestone outcroppings, a maze...
Agency | FS
joinerID | 242FS

Irish Wilderness
Wilderness | Irish Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Irish
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/Irish.jpg
Description | Irish Catholic Father John Hogan brought Irish immigrants to this region in the mid-1800s to escape oppression in the big city of Saint Louis, Missouri. His timing was off. The Civil War erupted, and Union...

Paddy Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Paddy Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Paddy_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PaddyCreek.jpg
Description | When Sylvester Paddy first logged this region in the early 1800s, many trees floated from here to Saint Louis, Missouri, providing an important supply of building materials for that city. The area was...

Piney Creek Wilderness
Wilderness | Piney Creek Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Piney_Creek
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/PineyCreek.jpg
Description | Railroad companies were the principal loggers in this area circa the late 1800s, followed by settlers on the ridges who happily discovered that tomatoes and strawberries grew large and juicy here. Nonetheless...

Rockpile Mountain Wilderness
Wilderness | Rockpile Mountain Wilderness
Abbreviated Name | Rockpile_Mountain
Image | https://wilderness.net/images/NWPS/RockpileMountain.jpg
Description | Private land virtually surrounds the state's smallest Wilderness area, a heavily forested spot within the Saint Francois Mountains. Its name comes from a mountain in the area that sets the stage for an...