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The Trinity Alps, along with the nearby Whiskeytown Unit of Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area, the Russian and Castle Crags Wildernesses, and Castle Crags State Park—all within a remote and diverse range known as the Klamath Mountains—make up the scope of this book. This range of about 8,300 square miles encompasses a large area of northwestern California and southwestern Oregon, extending from the Sacramento Valley all the way north to the Willamette Valley. The area is deeply dissected by rivers, with the Trinity Alps Wilderness, Russian Wilderness, and Whiskeytown NRA drained by the Trinity, Scott, and Salmon Rivers, and Castle Crags drained by the upper Sacramento River.

The Trinity Alps forms the centerpiece of this guide, an area of about 525,000 acres of splendid wilderness and near-wilderness. The federally designated Trinity Alps Wilderness, set aside by the U.S. Congress in the California Wilderness Act of 1984, contains a half million of those acres, an area of more than 780 square miles. The wilderness includes all of the 234,000 acres previously protected as the Salmon–Trinity Alps Primitive Area, plus, obviously, a great deal more land.