Moriah Wilderness is a 89,790-acre (36,340 ha) wilderness area in the northern part of the Snake Range of White Pine County, in the eastern section of the state of Nevada in the western United States.
Moriah Wilderness was designated in 1989 and is administered by the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, as some 8,700 acres (3,500 ha) in the northern portion of the Wilderness lies on BLM land.
At 11,000 feet (3,400 m) and stretching north and west of the peak is a unique plateau called the Table.
[1] Archaeological sites including caves utilized by Native Americans, pictographs, and lithic scatters are found in the Wilderness.
[3] The Mount Moriah Wilderness lies within the Intermountain sagebrush/ponderosa pine ecosystem and vegetation varies with the elevation.