The Ansel Adams Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada of California, United States. The wilderness spans 231,533 acres (93,698 ha); 33.9% of the territory lies in the Inyo National Forest, 65.8% is in the Sierra National Forest, and the remaining 0.3% covers nearly all of Devils Postpile National Monument. Yosemite National Park lies to the north and northwest, while the John Muir Wilderness lies to the south.
Banner Peak above Thousand Island Lake
Ansel Adams Wilderness
Alger Lakes and Mount San Joaquin in the northern end of the wilderness.
Minaret Lake in the Ansel Adams Wilderness area.
Inyo National Forest is a United States National Forest covering parts of the eastern Sierra Nevada of California and the White Mountains of California and Nevada. The forest hosts several superlatives, including Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States; Boundary Peak, the highest point in Nevada; and the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, which protects the oldest living trees in the world. The forest, encompassing much of the Owens Valley, was established by Theodore Roosevelt as a way of sectioning off land to accommodate the Los Angeles Aqueduct project in 1907, making the Inyo National Forest one of the least wooded forests in the U.S. National Forest system.
Hikers can access Mount Whitney, highest point in the contiguous United States, through the Inyo National Forest
Mount Ritter and Banner Peak along the John Muir Trail
The Schulman grove of Bristlecone pines
Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest at 11,000 ft (3,400 m) elevation