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Overview of Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument

Coldwater Ridge Visitor Center: 90 miles N of Portland, 168 miles S of Seattle Named in 1792 by Capt. George Vancouver for his friend Baron St. Helens, Mount St. Helens was once considered the most perfect of the Cascade peaks, a snow-covered cone rising above lush forests. However, on May 18, 1980, …

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Overview of Mount Baker

Diablo Lake: 66 miles E of Burlington (I-5), 65 miles W of Winthrop; Mount Baker Ski Area: 62 miles E of Bellingham Wolves and grizzly bears still call this wilderness home, and names such as Mount Fury, Mount Terror, and Forbidden Peak are testament to the rugged and remote nature of this terrain. …

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Overview of Eastern Washington

For many people who live on the wet west side of the Cascades, life in Washington would be nearly impossible if it were not for the sunny east side of the mountains. Eastern Washington lies in the rain shadow of the Cascades, and many parts of the region receive less than 10 inches of rain per year. This …

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Overview of Grays Harbor

67 miles W of Olympia, 67 miles S of Lake Quinault, 92 miles N of Long Beach Washington's central coast, consisting of the North and South Beach areas and the Grays Harbor towns of Aberdeen and Hoquiam, is something of an anomaly. Though far from being the most scenic stretch of Washington coast, it …

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Overview of Lake Chelan

166 miles E of Seattle, 37 miles N of Wenatchee, 59 miles S of Winthrop Formed when a glacier-carved valley flooded, Lake Chelan is 1,500 feet deep, 55 miles long, and less than 2 miles wide in most places. This land-locked fjord is the third-deepest lake in the United States (reaching 400 ft. below …

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Overview of Grand Coulee

85 miles W of Spokane, 92 miles NE of Wenatchee Grand Coulee, formerly a wide, dry valley, is a geologic anomaly left over from the last Ice Age. At that time, a glacier dammed an upstream tributary of the Columbia River and formed a huge lake in what is today Montana. When this prehistoric lake burst …

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