A journey by canoe, fly fishing and camping under lush ancient forest canopies. Welcome to North Cascades National Park, where time move a little slower. When I think about my time spent in northern ...

The narrow slot canyon on the edge of Ross Lake was just too tempting to pass by. Water flowed from the narrow slit in the cliff, creating a channel just wide enough for my family’s small rental ...

The trip starts at another lake, Diablo, which lies 400 feet below Ross Dam. Colonial Creek Campground has the main boat ramp for put-ins. Many travelers like to car camp there the day before canoeing ...

Camp beside a lake where both the highest overlook spot in the San Juan Islands (Mount Constitution) and Puget Sound’s teeming shoreline are nearby. Reduce your world to whatever you can pack into a ...

Stroke after stroke, we paddled further and further away from safety. Should we be here with our two precious kids, I thought ...

North Cascades National Park Camping includes four campgrounds along Highway 20 near Diablo lake. There is also one campground that is only accessible via Canada. North Cascades NP is located in the ...

SEDRO WOOLLEY, Wash. — A number of additional areas, trails, and camps closed due to the Sourdough Fire have reopened on Sept. 11, according to National Park Service officials. Even though the ...

Trails and camps in the Little Beaver area of Ross Lake in eastern Whatcom County are closed due to nearby wildfire activity. Little Beaver Trail is closed from Ross Lake to Stillwell Camp.

For most paddlers, the tantalizing jade-green waters of Diablo Lake are merely a fluid path to a bigger lake deeper in the North Cascades remoteness, not much more than a pretty prelude. But if you ...

ROSS LAKE -- The remote East Bank Trail, which snakes south from a campground at the U.S.-Canada border, would seem about the last place on Earth you'd expect to run into a 23-year-old aspiring ...