The Buckhorn Wilderness is a 44,258-acre (179.11 km2) mountainous wilderness area on the northeastern Olympic Peninsula in Washington, USA. Named after Buckhorn Mountain (6,988 ft/2,130 m), the wilderness abuts the eastern boundary of Olympic National Park which includes nearby Mount Constance (7,756 ft/2,364 m), Inner Constance (7,667 ft/2,337 m), Warrior Peak (7,320 ft/2,230 m), and Mount Deception (7,788 ft/2,374 m).
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“These were such houses as the lumberers of Maine spend the winter in, in the wilderness ... the camps and the hovels for the cattle, hardly distinguishable, except that the latter had no chimney.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)