The majority of its area is in Utah, and was initially created when the Bear River National Forest was disbanded.
[1] In descending order of forestland area, the Cache National Forest portion is located in Cache, Bear Lake, Franklin, Weber, Rich, Box Elder, Caribou, and Morgan counties.
(Bear Lake, Franklin, and Caribou counties are in Idaho, and the rest in Utah.)
The forest has a current area of 701,453 acres (2,838.68 km2), which comprises 43.56% of the combined Wasatch-Cache's total acreage.
[2] The forest is administered from Salt Lake City, Utah as part of the Wasatch-Cache National Forest, but there are local ranger district offices in Logan and Ogden.