page_title: Klamath National Forest
section_title: Wilderness areas
hierarchical_section_title: Klamath National Forest / Wilderness areas
caption_attribution_description: English: Map of the Klamath National Forest, Northern California, showing boundaries, roads and locations of ranger stations.
context_page_description: Klamath National Forest is a 1,737,774-acre national forest, in the Klamath Mountains and Cascade Range, located in Siskiyou County in northern California, but with a tiny extension into southern Jackson County in Oregon. The forest contains continuous stands of ponderosa pine, Jeffrey pine, Douglas fir, red fir, white fir, lodgepole pine, Baker Cypress, and incense cedar. Old growth forest is estimated to cover some 168,000 acres of the forest land. Forest headquarters are located in Yreka, California. There are local ranger district offices located in Fort Jones, Happy Camp, and Macdoel, all in California. The Klamath was established on May 6, 1905. This forest includes the Kangaroo Lake and the Sawyers Bar Catholic Church is located within the boundaries of the Forest. The Forest is managed jointly with the Butte Valley National Grassland.
context_section_description: There are four officially designated wilderness areas in Klamath National Forest that are part of the National Wilderness Preservation System. Two of them extend into neighboring national forests, and one of those into land managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
  Marble Mountain Wilderness
  Russian Wilderness
  Red Buttes Wilderness
  Siskiyou Wilderness (mostly in Six Rivers NF)
  Trinity Alps Wilderness (mostly in Trinity NF; partly in Shasta NF, Six Rivers NF, and BLM land)
caption: Map of the Klamath National Forest
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