Cache Creek Wilderness

The Cache Creek Wilderness is a 27,245acre wilderness area located in Lake County, California. The wilderness was added to the National Wilderness Preservation System when the United States Congress passed the Northern California Coastal Wild Heritage Wilderness Act in 2006 (Public Law 109-362). In July 2015, the area became part of Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument. The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is the agency in charge.The centerpiece of the wilderness is Cache Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento River (in high rainfall years). Cache Creek is one of two tributaries (Putah Creek is the other) that are the most southerly of the significant east-flowing Coast Range drainages in the Sacramento River hydrologic basin and provides important riparian and fish habitat. More than 30mi of Cache Creek is designated a California Wild and Scenic River.The wilderness area is within the larger Cache Creek Natural Area of more than 70000acre, and has a wide variety of plant and animal life, including a year-round population of bald eagles and California's second-largest herd of rare endemic tule elk.