The United States Congress designated the Trapper Creek Wilderness Area in 1984 and it now has a total of 5,970 acres. For a complete listing of public laws and further information on district offices, click here. About the Trapper Creek Wilderness Trapper Creek drains this unspoiled paradise, which consists of heavily forested ridges surrounding a clear turbulent waterway that, with its tributaries, flushes through deep canyons and over sparkling waterfalls on its journey to the Wind River outside the southeast boundary. Soda Peaks Lake, the area's single body of water, gleams from a cirque below Soda Peaks in the southwest corner. Douglas fir, western hemlock, western red cedar, white pine, and true firs grow at lower elevations, giving way higher up to whitebark pine, mountain hemlock, and subalpine fir.
Wildflowers literally carpet the mountain meadows in summer.
The forest is home to black-tailed deer, black bears, cougars, bobcats, and pine martens, with pikas and marmots abundant on upper rocky slopes. As much as 100 inches of precipitation falls primarily between September and May, much of it as snow. At the northwest corner you'll find Sister Rocks and the Sister Rocks Natural Research Area, which is preserved for the study of subalpine ecosystems. Immediately to the northeast lies the drainage of Bourbon Creek, worthy but undesignated as of today.