About this place
The Aubrey Peak Wilderness covers 15,400 acres in Mohave County. It sits 70 miles south of Kingman and 40 miles east of Lake Havasu City.
The landforms here are imposing, and they are cut into brightly colored volcanic rock: rhyolites, tuffs and basalt.
Aubrey Peak is a large mesa ringed by cliffs, and it dominates the eastern half. Other big mesas, buttes and volcanic plugs stand around it.
The rock here is soft. Water and wind have worked at it long enough to carve out natural windows, tufa caves, spires and slickrock terraces.
They have also left tinajas. Those are deep potholes in the rock that hold water.
Two deserts overlap here. This is the ground where the Mohave gives way to the Sonoran.
Large saguaro, paloverde, ironwood and smoke trees are Sonoran plants, while Joshua trees and their neighbors belong to the Mohave.
Here they grow among each other. The result is a quilt of plants unlike anything on either side of it.
This is good country for the plainest sort of recreation, and walking, backpacking and photography have all grown more popular here in recent years.
The agency strongly recommends four-wheel drive for the drive in.
There are no marked trails. Walking cross-country is fairly easy, and the sand washes make good routes.
The summer climate here is harsh. Daytime temperatures run over 100 degrees.
Between October 1 and April 30th it is more moderate.
There is very little water here. Nothing holds it naturally, apart from potholes after a rainstorm.
Two catchments built for wildlife collect runoff from storms. Purify it. Purify anything you find.
Follow the rules for the area, and leave no trace, so it stays that way.
Motors and machines are generally banned on any federal land designated as wilderness. That covers motor vehicles and off-highway vehicles, motorboats, bicycles, hang gliders, wagons, carts and portage wheels. Landing an aircraft or a helicopter counts too.
Ask the agency if you need more on the rules. The detail matters in a wilderness, and getting it wrong carries a penalty.
Some of the land around the wilderness, and inside it, is not federal. Do not cross it or use it without the owner’s permission.
The facts
- Cost
- Free to camp
- Roads around it
- Four-wheel drive strongly advised
- Drinking water
- No, bring your own
- Type
- Open area. Camp anywhere within it
- Managed by
- Bureau of Land Management
Getting there
From Kingman, travel 22 miles south on Interstate 40 to the Yucca and Alamo Road turnoff. From Yucca, carry on another 44 miles south on Alamo Road, to where a wooden pole power line crosses it. The wilderness boundary is a short way west of Alamo Road, along the powerline maintenance road. Once you are at the boundary, jeep trails running southwest and northwest roughly mark out the wilderness.
You can also reach Alamo Road from U.S. Highway 93 at Wikieup, on the county-maintained Chicken Springs Road. The boundary is 4.5 miles south of where Signal Road meets Alamo Road.
Coordinates 34.397909, -113.818427
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What is near here
Nothing is close to this one. Everything below is a long drive away, and each line says how far.
- Havasu National Wildlife Refuge Directions
Every distance on this page is the driving distance. A short distance can still take a long time. The road may be closed for the season, covered in snow, or washed out. Many of these roads are dirt. Plan your route before you leave home. Out here there is often no phone signal to look it up on the way.
Nearest town and supplies
- Parker Strip, AZ Directions
- Cienega Springs, AZ Directions
Cienega Springs is big enough that you’d normally expect fuel and somewhere to buy food. Nobody from here has been to check, so don’t count on it if you’re running low.
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Where this information comes from
The description on this page is ours. The facts in it, and the fee and facility details below it, come from the Bureau of Land Management’s own records, read in August 2026.