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IUCN Category Ib (Wilderness Area)
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| Location | Klamath County, Oregon, USA |
| Nearest city | Klamath Falls, Oregon |
| Area | 23,071 acres (9,337 ha) |
| Established | September 3, 1964 |
| Governing body | U.S. Forest Service |
The Mountain Lakes Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the Fremont–Winema National Forests in the southern Cascade Range of Oregon, USA. It surrounds a cluster of four overlapping shield volcanoes, the highest of which is 8,208 ft (2,502 m) Aspen Butte. Over 20 small lakes lie along the bottoms of several large large cirques carved by Ice Age glaciers near the summits of the volcanoes.
The Mountain Lakes Wilderness is unique among United States wilderness areas in that it is the only one whose borders form a square, occupying the 36 sq mi (93 km2) area of a single survey township.
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Popular recreational activities in Mountain Lakes Wilderness include hiking, cross-country skiing, camping, and fishing. Fish species are stocked in Mountain Lakes Wilderness lakes every other year. Both brook and rainbow trout are stocked in Harriette, Como, and West Lakes. Mystic, Paragon, and South Pass Lakes are only stocked with brook trout.[1]