The Gospel Hump Wilderness is a wilderness area located east of Riggins in the state of Idaho. It received wilderness designation in 1978 through the passage of the Endangered American Wilderness Act and is managed by the Nez Perce National Forest.
Although the Gospel Hump Wilderness Area is slightly larger than 206,000 acres (834 km²), when combined with the adjacent Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area and the surrounding unprotected roadless Forest Service land, it is part of a 3.3 million acre (13,000 km²) Wilderness-Roadless Area complex.
To the north of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Area lies the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area. These two large Wilderness areas are separated only by a single dirt road (the Magruder Corridor), connecting Red River, Idaho to Darby, Montana.
Negating the Magruder Corridor, the Selway-Bitterroot, Gospel Hump and Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Areas constitute the largest intact piece of wildland in the United States outside of Alaska.
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