---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 460mmm–3"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "460mmm–3"
heading: "Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness designation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/460mmm-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter CXXIV — McINNIS CANYONS NATIONAL CONSERVATION AREA"
---

# §460mmm–3. Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness designation


Certain lands in Mesa County, Colorado, and Grand County, Utah, which comprise approximately 75,550 acres as generally depicted on the [Map](/usc/16/460mmm–1.md?p=4), are hereby designated as [wilderness](/usc/16/460mmm–1.md?p=6) and therefore as a component of the [National Wilderness Preservation System](/usc/16/3102.md?p=13). Such component shall be known as the Black Ridge Canyons [Wilderness](/usc/16/460mmm–1.md?p=6).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–353, § 5, Oct. 24, 2000, 114 Stat. 1375.)