• View from Sourdough Mountain Overlook A view looking down onto Diablo Lake. Photo Credit: NPS/Michael Silverman, 2010.

    North Cascades

    National Park Washington

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  • Interstate 5 Bridge Collapse Detour

    I-5 is closed in both directions in Skagit County south of Burlington. WSDOT has published the following detour map. Also consider State Route 530 through Darrington from the south or State Route 9 from Bellingham and the Lower Mainland to reach the park. More »

Acoustic Monitoring Site: Big Beaver Valley

Hikers among the Western red cedars of Big Beaver. Image Credit: NPS/NOCA/Rosemary Seifried
Hikers among the Western red cedars of Big Beaver.
NPS/NOCA/Rosemary Seifried
 

July 2010
Located well up Big Beaver Valley, nestled among towering cedars, this was a serene site. Very few jets or planes flew overhead, leaving the site to the sounds of birds and insects.

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Woodpecker

Woodpecker

 
Barred owl

Barred owl

 
Owl and other birds

Owl and other birds

 
Dawn chorus of birds

Dawn chorus of birds

Did You Know?

Did You Know?

North Cascades National Park Service Complex includes 684,000 acres near the crest of the Cascade Mountains from the Canadian border south to Lake Chelan.