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The Gila Wilderness is located in southwest New Mexico, north of Silver City and east of Reserve. It contains the West Fork, Middle Fork and much of the East Fork of the Gila River; riverside elevations of around 4,850 feet (1,480 m) are the lowest in the wilderness. The Mogollon Mountains traverse an arc across the wilderness.
The Gila River is the life-blood of New Mexico: the last free-flowing river in the state that still has an abundance and diversity of fish and wildlife.
1 day ago · The dam stores Colorado River water for Arizona, California, Nevada and northern Mexico. Lake Mead had fallen to historic lows, and the Gila River tribe agreed to conserve 125,000 acre-feet of ...
Jan 13, 2020 · The main stem of the Gila River provides visitors with a profound sense of solitude. This long, meandering river corridor through the heart of the Gila Wilderness is an assertive landscape, where a combination of aridity and moisture sharpens the steep cliff walls and enhances the smooth riparian belt that surrounds the water.
Area Status: Open. ***Attention Gila River Rafters - please see the latest Gila River trip report from Gila National Forest from April 6 - 9, 2023***. The 559,688-acre Gila Wilderness, created in June 1924 at the urging of the great conservation pioneer Aldo Leopold, was the world's first designated wilderness and also New Mexico's largest ...
The Gila River is a unique, last of its kind gem important to sportsmen, tribes, farmers, and tourists alike. New Mexico’s last free-flowing river is no doubt, a source of life. The proposed NM Unit is expensive, unaffordable, and will harm threatened and endangered species and riparian habitat along the Gila and San Francisco rivers.
At 9:00 AM on Monday, May 23, 2022, the Gila River Indian Community’s Pima-Maricopa Irrigation Project (P-MIP) will break ground on the second of five Bilateral Infrastructure Law-funded construction projects. The Canal 14 project will replace nearly three miles of canal with an enlarged concrete-lined canal that will serve tribal growers in ...
