This wilderness area has six fourteeners and 100 miles of trail. It was first protected under the Wilderness Act of 1964 at 66,100 acres. In 1980, a citizen effort lead by Aspen Wilderness Workshop co-founders Connie Harvey, Joy Caudill and Dottie Fox, got legislation passed to expand wilderness protections for the area. Today the Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness Area is 181,602 acres.