According to the USGS, Mount St. Helens is the most active volcano in the lower 48 states and the most likely in the Cascades ...

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Johnstone Ridge, one of the main destinations and centers for Mount St. Helens visitors, is still closed for the summer of 2025 because of the 2023 landslide. WSDOT is targeting finishing up ...

Since 1996, scientists, researchers, staff and volunteers at Mount St. Helens Institute have been working to educate students and visitors about the mountain’s unique volcanic landscape. Despite recen ...

When Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18 ... Ecologists were shocked by what they saw at Johnston Ridge, about 6 miles from the summit. They had expected to find nothing. Instead, there were ...

Johnstone Ridge, one of the main destinations and centers for Mount St. Helens visitors, is still closed for the summer of 2025 because of the 2023 landslide. WSDOT is targeting finishing up ...

The road leading to Johnston Ridge Observatory still isn't open following a 2023 landslide. But businesses say signs along ...

The May 18, 1980, eruption of Mount St. Helens in southern Washington claimed ... who was staffing the USGS observation point on the Coldwater Creek ridge about 10 miles away from the summit ...