Ansel Adams Wilderness

The Ansel Adams Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada of California, USA. The wilderness is part of the Sierra (majority of the wilderness) and Inyo National Forests. The wilderness spans. Yosemite National Park lies to the north and northwest, while the John Muir Wilderness lies to the south.HistoryThe wilderness was established as part of the original Wilderness Act in 1964 as the Minarets Wilderness. The 109500acre Minarets Wilderness was created by enlarging and renaming the Mount Dana-Minarets Primitive Area.In 1984, after his death, the area was expanded and renamed in honor of Ansel Adams, well-known environmentalist and nature photographer who is famous for his black and white landscape photographs of the Sierra Nevada.Geography and GeologyThe Ansel Adams wilderness spans in elevation from 3500to, forming the northern end of the High Sierra.The centerpiece of the Ansel Adams wilderness is the Ritter Range, which includes dark metavolcanic glaciated mountains such as Mount Ritter, Banner Peak, and The Minarets.