Castle Crags Wilderness
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IUCN category Ib (wilderness area)
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Castle Crags view from the state park
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| Location |
Trinity Mountains, Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Siskiyou and Shasta Counties, California |
| Nearest city | Mount Shasta City |
| Coordinates | 41°12′00″N 122°22′50″W / 41.20000°N 122.38056°WCoordinates: 41°12′00″N 122°22′50″W / 41.20000°N 122.38056°W |
| Area | 10,500 acres (42 km2) |
| Established | 1984 |
| Governing body | U.S. Forest Service |
The Castle Crags Wilderness is a 12,232-acre (49.50 km2)wilderness area in the Castle Crags rock formations of the Trinity Mountains, and within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, in northwestern California. It is located in Siskiyou County and Shasta County, 40 miles north of Redding and south of Mount Shasta City.
The US Congress passsd the California Wilderness Act in 1984 which set aside the wilderness.
Elevations of the Castle Crags range from 2,500–7,300 feet (762–2,225 m). The Trinity Mountains are a range in the Klamath Mountains System and the Klamath geological province.
The prominent spires in the southeast that make up the Castle Crags are the main attraction and are similar to the granitic rock landscape in parts of Yosemite National Park. In the northern portion of the wilderness, the landscape is more like the Klamath Mountains with glacial erosion, several cirques, and abundant rainfall with a high, east-trending divide. The area is bounded on the east by the Sacramento River, in the north by the South Fork Sacramento River and in the south by the canyon of Castle Creek and the boundary of Castle Crags State Park.
One roadless area of 1,732 acres (7.01 km2) borders on the northwest and contains the largest glacial cirque, Castle Lake, which is near where the Modoc War's 1855 Battle of Castle Crags took place. Now a historical landmark (California Historical Landmark No.16), the battle was fought on a ridge saddle between the lake and what is known as Battle Rock.
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