Neota Wilderness
Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest

The 9,924-acre Neota Wilderness is located with Rocky Mountain National Park to the south, Comanche Peak Wilderness to the east and Rawah Wilderness to the northwest. Elevations vary between about 10,000' and 11,896'. Neota was established to protect a series of flattened granite ridges unusual in the steep-sided Rockies. If you climb to the summit of Iron Mountain (12,265') just southwest of the Neota boundary, you can look down across the entire wilderness area.

There are 3 main drainages on the property: Neota, Trap and Corral Creeks. As the higher elevations hold snow for a long time here, these creek valleys tend to stay very wet in the warmer months. Reintroduced moose have done very well among the bogs, marshes, sedges and willows of the Neota creeks. There's also the usual assortment of black bear, elk, deer, mountain lion and bobcat in these woods. But there are no maintained trails.