Mount Rainier gets the crowds. Olympic National Park draws the tourists. But just three hours north of Seattle, wedged between Washington and British Columbia, sits North Cascades National Park—a ...

North Cascades National Park, two hours northeast of Seattle, is one of three national parks in Washington, and the least known. The other two – Mount Rainier and Olympic – are among the most visited ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They're known as the American Alps, and it doesn't take long in Washington's North Cascades to figure out why. Rows of jagged ...

Spotting a hoary marmot is a rite of passage for serious Pacific Northwest hikers. The charming and curious creatures can be found in the subalpine meadows of Washington’s North Cascades range, ...

I had to get out of the smoke. I had some vacation time scheduled but no solid idea of where to go to escape the heavy haze ...

The ice fields that give Washington’s Glacier Peak its name are disappearing, though few people may have noticed. Glacier Peak, the 10,541-foot high point of Snohomish County, is sometimes called ...