The Devil's Staircase Wilderness is a forested wilderness area adjacent to the Umpqua River in the Southern Oregon Coast Range of the U.S. state of Oregon. It was officially designated in March 2019.[2]
Devil's Staircase Wilderness | |
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Location in Oregon Location in United States | |
Coordinates | 43°43′N 123°55′W / 43.72°N 123.92°W |
Governing body | Bureau of Land Management and the United States Forest Service |
Website | http://www.devilsstaircasewilderness.org/ |
The wilderness is one of a handful of federally protected old-growth forest stands in the Oregon Coast Range, others being the Drift Creek Wilderness, the Rock Creek Wilderness, and the Cummins Creek Wilderness, all of which were established in 1984.[3][4][5]