Neither of these Wilderness units has had a unit management plan since their designation back in the early 1970s. 73, the I-87 Northway, the Blue Ridge Road and lands owned by the Elk Lake Lodge and Ausable Club. The terrain is very rough, rocky and mountainous, with four trailless peaks over 4000 ft. in elevation, South Dix, East Dix, Hough and McComb.
Vertical cliffs are common.
There are also 36 miles of foot trails. Some of the most severe and extensive forest fires occurred in this area at the turn of the 20th century, such that the tops and upper sloes of these mountains lost their forest cover, the humus and the mineral soil. As a result, there are many steep slides created when the slowly developing thin forest soils are saturated and everything slides into the Boquet river valley. Twelve small ponds exist in this Wilderness with a total surface area of 92 acres. These trails extend to the summits of mountains such as Round Top, Noonmark, Bear Den, Dial, Nippletop, Colvin, Blake and Pinnacle.