Some of you will have opinions about this stuff. See summary here:

http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/20 ... areas22920

Public meetings:

March 18, Mohave Community College, Room 2, 3400 Arizona 95, Bullhead City, Ariz.

March 19, Boulder City Library, 701 Adams Blvd., Boulder City, Nev.

March 21, James Gibson Library, 100 W Lake Mead Pkwy., Henderson, Nev.

Lake Meade wilderness sound like an oxymoron.

Buz Groshong wrote:Lake Meade wilderness sound like an oxymoron.

Most of Lake Mead (no e) area is far wilder than most of the areas discussed on summitpost. You typically see no one when you leave the road, and often see bighorns, bobcats, and lots of fresh puma tracks.

That may well be, but the lake is a man-made feature - the very opposite of the idea of wilderness.

Buz Groshong wrote:That may well be, but the lake is a man-made feature - the very opposite of the idea of wilderness.

I'm guessing you'll find a lot of man-made features abutting other "wilderness" areas-- roads, huts, and so forth. In 50 trips to Lake Mead wilderness area, I've been to the lake 2x. If anything, the lake increases the isolation of areas like Gold Butte and Gold Cross Peak-- before the lake, people could drive to those places directly from Vegas.

My comment was really about the irony of the name; not about the quality of wilderness.

Buz Groshong wrote:My comment was really about the irony of the name; not about the quality of wilderness.

Understood. And my comment was... along the lines of "look deeper."

To quote a well-known SP member: "You're taking this way too seriously!"