The Arc Dome Wilderness is a protected wilderness area in the Toiyabe Range of Nye County, in the central section of the state of Nevada in the western United States. It covers an area of approximately 115,000 acres (465 km2), Nevada’s largest Wilderness area. Attractions include the 70 mile long Toiyabe Crest Trail offers travelers atop the ridge of the Toiyabe Range, including 30 miles within the Arc Dome Wilderness.
Wildlife in the Wilderness includes Columbia Spotted Frog, Mule Deer, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Golden Eagle, Clark's Nutcracker, Sage Sparrow, Sagebrush Vole, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Yellow Warbler, Northern Goshawk, Big Brown Bat, and Great Basin Skink.
The Arc Dome Wilderness is administered by the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest.
Famous quotes containing the words arc, dome and/or wilderness:
“If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.”
—Joan Of Arc (c.1412–1431)
“A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains
All that man is,
All mere complexities,
The fury and the mire of human veins.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it?”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 15:4.