- The start of the river is near Hannegan Pass just inside of the Mount Baker–Snoqualmie National Forest and the Mount Baker Wilderness.
- In Canada, the river changes its name to the Vedder River.
- Trapper Creek Wilderness (wilderness.net)
Trapper Creek Wilderness protects nearly all of the Trapper Creek drainage and provides the only pristine anadromous fish habitat in the Wind River watershed. Sparkling streams and waterfalls grace steeply dissected canyons of heavy timber…