Clackamas Wilderness

{{Short description|Protected area in Oregon, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox Protected area

| name = Clackamas Wilderness

| iucn_category = Ib

| iucn_ref = [https://www.protectedplanet.net/555586198 Protected Planet Website]- Retrieved March 24, 2023

| photo = Field in the Clackamas Wilderness-Mt Hood (23288336844).jpg

| photo_caption = Field in the Clackamas Wilderness, June 2008

| map = Oregon#USA

| map_alt =

| map_caption = Location in Oregon##Location in United States

| map_width =

| location = Clackamas County, Oregon, USA

| nearest_city = Detroit, Oregon

| coords = {{Coord|44.9|-121.83|format=dms|region:US-OR_type:mountain_source:gnis|display=inline,title}}

| area = {{convert|9470|acre}}

| established = 2009

| visitation_num =

| visitation_year =

| governing_body = U.S. Forest Service

}}

The Clackamas Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Mount Hood National Forest in the northwestern Cascades of Oregon, United States. Created by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, it consists of {{convert|9470|acre}}.{{cite web

|url = http://www.publiclands.org/explore/site.php?id=7949

|title = Clackamas Wilderness, Oregon

|publisher = Public Lands Information Center

|access-date = January 27, 2012}}{{cite web

|url=http://www.wilderness.net/index.cfm?fuse=NWPS&sec=wildView&WID=715

|title=Clackamas Wilderness

|publisher = Wilderness.net

|access-date = January 27, 2012}} The wilderness is made up of five different tracts of lands with no roads on a {{convert|50|mi|km|adj=on}} stretch on both sides of the Clackamas River. These areas include Big Bottom, Memaloose Lake, Clackamas Canyon, Sisi Butte and South Fork Clackamas. It has some of the biggest trees in northwest Oregon. Memaloose Lake is a very popular hiking trail that leads through a forest to the lake, and then continues a mile up to a viewpoint on to up South Fork Mountain.{{cite news

|url=http://special.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/sports/outdoors/11302779-44/story.csp

|title=Into the Wilds: A look around the state at the new wilderness areas designated by Congress

|last=Sullivan

|first=William L.

|newspaper=The Register-Guard

|date=April 21, 2009

|access-date=January 27, 2012}}