Willow Creek Addition to the Silver Peak Wilderness
 Managing
agency: Los Padres National Forest
Size: Approximately 8,820 acres.
Location: Less than one mile east of highway 1, west of Fort Hunter
Liggett, in Monterey County, near the tiny town of Plaskett.
Description: This area encompasses most of the North Fork of Willow
Creek, the largest creek or river on the Big Sur coast originating in lands formerly unprotected as wilderness.
From an elevation of 3200' along the Coast Ridge, the North Fork and its tributaries wind through steep
canyons of dense old-growth forest on their way to the sea, some eight miles away. The Willow Creek watershed
is notable for the largest forest of Douglas fir on California's central coast. Spruce Creek, a tributary
of Willow Creek, contains the most extensive stands.
 The
canyons also distinguish themselves with groves of towering redwoods that follow
the creeks up the hillsides where they merge with the grassy meadows found on
the upper slopes.
For additional information, please contact:
Ventana Wilderness Alliance
P.O. Box 506
Santa Cruz, CA 95061
Phone: (831) 423-3191
Email: wilderness@ventanawild.org
www.ventanawild.org
Or:
Dave Westman
Sierra Club
827 Broadway, Suite 310
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 622-0290 X220
Email: dave.westman@sierraclub.org
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Just three miles off of Interstate 80, 
