For a place to use as a home base while exploring Washington, head to this city at the foot of the Cascade Mountains for beauty and charming local businesses.

In the Pacific Northwest, Washington offers the most dramatic scenery. The best place to enjoy the outdoors is in a National ...

It’s the northernmost highway that crosses the Cascades Mountains in Washington. Because of avalanche danger from the high slopes of Washington Pass and Rainy Pass, the highway is closed in late fall ...

A winter storm warning has been issued for the Cascade Mountains in Whatcom, Skagit, Pierce and Lewis counties of Washington state, starting at 5 p.m. Monday, April 7, and ending at 5 p.m. Tuesday ...

North Cascades Highway first opened to general traffic on Sept. 2, 1972, only to close for the winter on Nov. 26. The pass ...

The Washington State Department of Transportation has reopened State Highway 20, also known as the North Cascades Highway, ...

Gretchen Kay Stuart A rare red fox is clinging to life in Washington State, up in the Cascade Mountains. It’s smaller than its lowland cousins, its feet are furrier, and it primarily eats pocket ...

The North Cascades Highway reopened Tuesday for the season, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation ...

The region forms part of the Cascade Range, named for its innumerable waterfalls. The range extends from British Columbia to northern California. A geological theory proposes that the mountains ...

Washington’s wolf numbers shrank slightly ... Some of those killings took place in the southern portion of the Cascade Range, a place where just a handful of wolves have been documented in ...