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Ashley
National Forest
Looking
off Kings Peak the highest peak in Utah Picture
taken by C Strickland
The Ashley
National Forest was established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1908.
Its forest and range lands are protected and managed to insure timber,
grazing, minerals, water and outdoor recreation for the American people.
Ashley National forest consists of 1,384,132 acres. 1,287,909 of those
acres are in Utah and 96,223 are in Wyoming. Of the total acres: 276,175
are High Uintas Wilderness and 180,530 additional acres of High Uintas
Wilderness are located on the border of the Wasatch/Cache National Forest.
Forest
landscape ranges from high desert country to high mountain areas. The
elevation varies from a low of 6,000 feet to a high of 13,528 feet above
sea level at the summit of Kings Peak the highest peak in Utah.
The
Flaming
Gorge National Recreation Area, Flaming
Gorge-Uintas National Scenic Byway, The Green River Corridor ( a
world-class blue ribbon fishery) are also remarkable features to be seen
in the Ashley National Forest.
Over
2.5 million visitors come to the Forest each year to participate in
outstanding outdoor recreation activities, such as boating, fishing,
camping, hiking, backpacking, horseback riding, cross-country skiing, and
snowmobiling.
For more info on Ashley
National Forest you can contact: Supervisor's
Office
355 North Vernal Ave.
Vernal, UT 84078
Phone: 435-789-1181
Fax 435-781-5142
Click
Here For Camping Information And Reservations
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