North Cascades National Park preserves some of North America's most spectacular alpine scenery.
Located in the northwest corner of the state of Washington, it is one of America's younger national parks. The park itself is part of a National Park Service Complex which contains north and south national park units, the Ross Lake National Recreation Area which separates the two units, and the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area which borders the south unit. The backcountry regions contain some of the few truly untrammelled wilderness areas in the world and some of the wildest country in the United States. As mentioned above, the north and south units of the national park are bisected by the Ross Lake National Recreation area. In most of these picture the NRA portion is the lowland containing the rivers or lakes, while the mountain peaks lay within the national park boundaries.