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Ogden Sierra Club -- Adopt a Roadless Area
Willard
This spectacular area includes Willard Peak, Willard Basin, and the
Willard Spires that tower above the town of Willard. The Willard
unit and the Ben Lomond unit (to the south) make up a single
roadless area of 20,000 acres, not including adjacent state-owned lands
to the north. Access to much of the high country is via a four-wheel-drive road
from Mantua.
Issues affecting this unit include:
- Off-road vehicle abuse at several points along the Willard Basin
road, from Dock Flat up to Willard Basin.
- Motorized access to the Box Elder Creek area, which is closed
according to the Forest Service travel plan although the closure
has never been enforced. The Forest Service will probably propose opening
a route through this area in the upcoming travel plan revision.
- The adjacent Brigham Wildlife Management Area, which is now being managed
for motorized recreation as much as for wildlife habitat.
- The proposed
Shoshone ATV trail system,
which
would include the Willard Basin road, the Box Elder Creek road and connecting trails,
the road to Devil's Gate Valley, and a trail that is currently
closed in Willard Basin.
- Hiker access from the west.
- Raptor habitat.
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Last modified on 7 June 2003.
