The 10th annual Gila River Festival – Celebrating America’s First Wilderness River – planned in and around Silver City, September 18 – 21, 2014, will commemorate two momentous wilderness milestones. Across the country, conservationists will honor the Wilderness Act’s 50th anniversary. In southwest New Mexico, we’ll also celebrate the Gila Wilderness Area’s 90th anniversary and the 10th anniversary of the Gila River Festival. As America’s first wilderness river, the Gila’s verdant thread of life weaves through these celebrations.
