Greetings from North Cascades National Park

I did a road trip to various parks in 1993, but as a woman traveling alone, I didn’t feel comfortable tent camping so slept in my Civic hatchback. I’m pretty short so it was comfortable.

I did another road trip in 1999, again with a duration of several weeks. This time I decided to go all in with my tent. My main memory of North Cascades were the signs warning people of bears and to keep food locked in their car. The first night in my tent was not restful, but it was much better the second night – due to exhaustion from lack of sleep and the day’s hiking. More importantly, I was a bit more confident that any bears weren’t interested in me : )

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Sincerely,
Tracy

North Cascades National Park

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 mountains, hundreds of glaciers and old-growth forests that have never been cut, with large, magnificent trees and tiered canopies of fir, hemlock and cedar. The snowy winters at this park produce stunning waterfalls in the spring — a phenomenon that is so beloved, the Cascade Range is named for them.

State(s): Washington

Established: 1968

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