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 ...

With its glacier-clad peaks, virgin forests, vast turquoise lakes, and sub-alpine meadows, North Cascades National Park is a gem of a wilderness — one that is often overlooked by tourists and revered ...

One of the least visited national parks in the U.S., North Cascades National Park comprises towering stone mountains, hundreds of thousands of acres of old-growth forests, and otherworldly turquoise ...

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 ...

One of Washington's most scenic highways is fully reopening soon, just in time for the summer hiking season. The North Cascades Highway/SR 20, also known as Highway 20, is set to fully reopen on ...

Among the jagged peaks of the North Cascades, lush alpine meadows rich with berries and wildflowers blanket valleys carved by glaciers, some threaded with trickling creeks. But these idyllic ...

Brendan Oates cried the first time he saw North Cascades National Park. “It was my first day working North Cascades, before I was working at a park in Kansas,” the park ranger told USA TODAY. “And I ...

The National Parks Service and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service filed a decision April 25 outlining a plan to capture three to seven grizzlies from other ecosystems in the Rocky Mountains or interior ...

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 mountains cut across an impossibly vast horizon while aquamarine rivers ...