Experience the beauty of the North Cascades Highway, featuring glaciers, waterfalls, and breathtaking views of the Pacific ...

Popular national parks brace for record-breaking visitation as peak summer travel approaches. But away from the spotlight, a ...

Ross Lake Overlooks (Mile 136) – Enjoy views over Ross Lake. North Cascades Highway travelers should plan for weather conditions, turn on headlights and stay alert for other vehicles on the road.

PORTLAND – Crater Lake’s visitor numbers continued to ... at around 1.6 million visitors for the last four years. North Cascades, a much more remote park, posted its lowest visitor count ...

The Cascade Range ... Diamond Lake below and a dizzying avalanche bowl. Technically, the trail ends at the false summit at 8,140 feet. The true summit lies 0.5 mile north at the end of a ...

Other activities include white water rafting, hiking Thunder Creek Trail, rock climbing and boating on Ross Lake. Since the North Cascades are ... monkey flowers and blue-eyed grass.

While studying the volcanic landscape of the Cascade Range north of the California border ... be nearly three times the maximum capacity of Lake Mead, the crucial reservoir that provides water ...

Winter weather advisories, including lake effect snow warnings ... 6 to 10 inches and winds gusting as high as 40 mph in North Oregon Cascades. A weather advisory is in place from 4 p.m. Saturday ...

North Cascades National Park ... animal I saw during my tour was a single mountain goat hanging out near Blue Lake. The park’s peaks are part of the much larger Cascade Range, which stretches ...

Alaska makes even Montana – dubbed the “Land of 10,000 Lakes” – look a little dried-up, boasting a staggering three million lakes. Some are seasonal, fed by snowmelt and glaciers, while ...