page_title: Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
hierarchical_section_title: Baboquivari Peak Wilderness
caption_attribution_description: English: Boboquivari Peak in the Boboquivari Peak Wilderness, Arizona.
context_page_description: The Baboquivari Peak Wilderness is a 2,065-acre wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located in the Baboquivari Mountains 50 miles southwest of Tucson, Arizona. It is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The United States Congress designated the Baboquivari Peak Wilderness in 1990. It is the smallest such designated wilderness in the state of Arizona. Today, the 2,900,000-acre Tohono O'odham Nation lies to the west. Baboquivari Peak's elevation is 7,730 feet. It is a popular site for many climbers, tourists and other visitors to Arizona and can be seen in the distance from the Kitt Peak National Observatory. The mountain was well known as a place to find flint for arrow points. BA BO QUAY VI RA, is translated as the place for the mother lode of flint.
  Baboquivari Peak Wilderness is reported to have some of the best backcountry rock climbing in Arizona. It can be visited any time of the year; however, summer afternoons are usually too hot for hiking, and winter can bring an occasional snow shower to the peak's highest elevations. Sightings of jaguars have been recorded in the Baboquivaris during the last decades.
context_section_description: The Baboquivari Peak Wilderness is a 2,065-acre (8 km²) wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located in the Baboquivari Mountains 50 miles (80 km) southwest of Tucson, Arizona. It is administered by the Bureau of Land Management.  The United States Congress designated the Baboquivari Peak Wilderness in 1990. It is the smallest such designated wilderness in the state of Arizona.  Today, the 2,900,000-acre (12,000 km²) Tohono O'odham Nation (second largest reservation in the United States) lies to the west. Baboquivari Peak's elevation is 7,730 feet (2,356 m). It is a popular site for many climbers, tourists and other visitors to Arizona and can be seen in the distance from the Kitt Peak National Observatory. The mountain was well known as a place to find flint for arrow points.  BA BO QUAY VI RA,  is translated as the place for the mother lode of flint. (America, Land of the Rising Sun—Don Smithana).
  Baboquivari Peak Wilderness is reported to have some of the best backcountry rock climbing in Arizona. It can be visited any time of the year; however, summer afternoons are usually too hot for hiking, and winter can bring an occasional snow shower to the peak's highest elevations.   Sightings of jaguars have been recorded in the Baboquivaris during the last decades.
caption: View of the east face of Baboquivari Peak
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