Kimberling Creek Wilderness Additions

Located on the side of Hogback Mountain, this 5,580-acre wilderness has no maintained trails, and features the remote hollows of North Fork and Sulphur Spring Fork, which are tributaries of Kimberling Creek. There also are no roads or developed trails in the Kimberling Creek Wilderness additions. These areas are popular with hunters, with black bear being the featured species. The additions protect a spring on the edge of the Kimberling Creek Wilderness, and lands above Kimberling Creek and one of its tributaries. Each of the additions, in its entirety, is characterized by the Forest Service as retaining natural scenic beauty.

The Forest Service identified Addition A (northwest) and Addition B (south) to the Kimberling Creek Wilderness. These areas were acquired in the last 10 years by the Forest Service. Had they been national forest lands at the time of the 1984 Virginia Wilderness Act, it is likely they would have been included in the Kimberling Creek Wilderness.

Approximate Size: Addition A 89 acres, Addition B 195 acres
Location: Bland County; east of 1-77, Wythe Ranger District
Topo: Rocky Gap