North
Cascades Travel Planner The North Cascades National Park Service Complex
includes North Cascades National Park and Ross Lake and Lake Chelan National
Recreation Areas. North Cascades National Park contains some of America's
most beautiful scenery -- jagged peaks, deep valleys, cascading waterfalls
and over 300 glaciers -- within its 505,000 acres (202,000 hectares). Ross
Lake National Recreation Area (118,000 acres, 47,200 hectares) is the corridor
for scenic Washington State Route 20, the North Cascades Highway, and includes
three reservoirs: 12,000-acre (4,800-hectare) Ross Lake, 910-acre (364-hectare)
Diablo Lake, and 210-acre (84-hectare) Gorge Lake -- water gateways to more
remote areas. Lake Chelan National Recreation Area (62,000 acres, 24,800
hectares) rests in a glacially carved trough in the Cascades Range.Lake
Chelan is one of the nation's deepest, reaching
a depth of 1,500 feet (450 meters).It offers boating, fishing, and lakeshore
camping. The average width is less than two miles (3.2 kilometers), but
Lake Chelan extends 50 
miles
(83 kilometers)into the Cascade Mountains.The lake's northernmostfour miles
(6.4 kilometers) are in the National Recreation Area, including the remote
community of Stehekin and the Stehekin River Valley. |
Lodging
and Activities near North Cascades: Closest
Major Airport: Seattle (SEA) |
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