North Cascades National Park News

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved legislation that could wind up forcing the National Park Service to move a wilderness boundary line to rebuild a flood-prone road.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday approved a bill to move and restore the washed-out Stehekin River Road, the only road access out of Lake Chelan into the North Cascades National Park.

That bad idea is now threatening the good idea, as Mexican drug cartels - hampered by a tighter border - swarm over large swaths of U.S. public land to grow pot.

TACOMA, Wash. - North Cascades National Park is a contradiction. To begin with, it's more than a singular park.

T he National Park Service finds itself in the midst of a unique nexus of heightened interest.

By Don Bona 1. What U.S. national park has a lake with no inlet or outlet and is supplied by only by the melting snow, which is on average 533 inches per year? Lake Clark National Park in Alaska; Glacier National Park in Montana; Crater Lake National Park in Oregon; North Cascades National Park in Washington.

In North Cascades National Park, fireweed edges the trail to Easy Pass. Visitors head to the driftwood-strewn Rialto Beach in Washington's Olympic National Park to watch the sunset.

Absolutely certain she had flunked the state bar exam, my sweetie moped around the house in Seattle, reliving question-by-question where she supposedly dropped the ball.

Jon Riedel and I stand at a trailhead that leads to Washington's Mount Baker with nine high school students who have come to the Pacific Northwest for a month to learn about climate change.

The current path of the Upper Stehekin Valley Road in North Cascades National Park is in the floodplain of the Stehekin River.

Need an escape this fall or a break from your traditional routine? Add a trip to the sunny Chelan Valley to your to-do list of fun.

Some pleasures have to be earned. So it is with a signature delight of a Northwest summer: high-country wildflowers.

A section of this Sierra Nevada national park was closed to visitors Thursday while rangers helicoptered in to destroy a sizable marijuana growing operation just a half-mile away from a crystal-filled cave popular with tourists.

Cascade River Road will be closed for the season at milepost 12.7 beginning Sept.

The first-ever study of its kind could help determine if the American pika is at risk of disappearing from western U.S. mountain tops, scientists say.

A Portland man hiked over three glaciers in record time to get help for his climbing partner who was rescued on Monday in North Cascades National Park southeast of Bellingham, Wash.

MARBLEMOUNT, Wash. - A 36-year-old Portland man injured in a fall in Washington's North Cascades National Park has been rescued.

The Brush Creek Fire in the Brush Creek Drainage was discovered August 2. It has been burning for 2 weeks in brush and mixed conifers.

Bringing back the wolves of Olympic National Park A new study reveals the changes wrought on Olympic National Park's ecosystem when the wolves disappeared, presenting a compelling argument for reintroducing them.

Entrance fees at national parks across the country, including Mount Rainier and Olympic, will be waived Saturday and Sunday.