North Cascades National Park is a beautiful alpine area located a short drive from Seattle, offering both peaceful forests and exciting mountain terrain. In the west, dense forests nourished by ...

In the Gunther Volkswagen survey, North Cascades fell one spot behind the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest in Georgia, while Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee took the top spot.

North Cascades National Park Service Complex encompasses 684,000 acres of wilderness, trails and rivers, as well as Ross Lake and Lake Chelan National Recreation Areas. In this vast terrain are jagged ...

the plate smashed into the North American continent, folding and crumpling into a mountain range as it lodged against the landmass. Those mountains eroded; the Cascades you see today rose only ...

The American West is hungry for water, and scientists just found a previously unmapped aquifer three times the size of Lake Mead. The discovery came when researchers, studying drill holes left behind ...

The National Park Service in late January solicited bids for the operation of North Cascades Lodge at Stehekin.

The advisory remains in effect for the south Cascades of Washington and north and central cascades of Oregon until 4 a.m.

An enormous water reservoir — likely the largest aquifer of its kind in on Earth — sits inside the volcanic rocks of the Oregon Cascades, scientists have revealed.