I really want to start exploring North Cascades National Park. With the growler jet activity in Olympic national forest and park and several visits to Mount Rainier National Park, I want to explore a new national park. Between being in Washington State where I live, being way less crowded than other national parks, and how amazing the landscape is up there are my motivations to go. I have only seen a small part of the wilderness up there.
Sincerely,
North Cascades National Park
North Cascades National Park Service Complex encompasses 684,000 acres of wilderness, trails and rivers, as well as Ross Lake and Lake Chelan National Recreation Areas. In this vast terrain are jagged mountains, hundreds of glaciers and old-growth forests that have never been cut, with large, magnificent trees and tiered canopies of fir, hemlock and cedar. The snowy winters at this park produce stunning waterfalls in the spring — a phenomenon that is so beloved, the Cascade Range is named for them.
State(s): Washington
Established: 1968
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