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 ...

North Cascades National Park is one of the less visited national parks, but not because it’s not beautiful, but because it’s ...

Hikes and walks, guide books or actuality, need not be put on the shelf for the winter. For example, your favorite wooded hike may be sufficiently trod that you can walk it even in snow in sneakers.

Winter is coming in Western Washington, meaning the peak days of high-elevation hiking are behind us this year. Although access to high-elevation hikes is curtailed in the winter months while ...

Mike Campos emerged from days of backpacking across the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in north-central Washington to learn that a wildfire had blocked off a 40-mile stretch of trail between him ...

Notch Brook drops some 1,000 feet from the notch between Greylock and Ragged, including descending 40-feet in a series of cascades in 85 acres of large hemlock trees, practically in downtown North ...

Ready for a road trip? The North Cascades Highway —State Route 20 — is reopening at 10 a.m. Friday, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) announced Wednesday. The scenic highway ...