San Juan Mountains Wilderness

Mt Sneffels, CO Photo: Jack Brauer
GRANT NAME:
San Juan Mountains Wilderness
GRANTEE:
San Juan Citizens Alliance
LOCATION
Durango, CO
AMOUNT
$35,000
Year
2019

To secure Wilderness and other protective designations for 60,000 acres in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains that includes expanding the size of the existing Mount Sneffels and Lizard Head Wilderness Areas, designating McKenna Peak as the first desert Wilderness area in southwest Colorado, and safeguarding alpine basins in the Animas River headwaters from future mining.