The name of the designated Wilderness with the North Cascades National Park Service Complex honors the first director of the National Park Service. Golden West Stehekin Landing in the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area. Facilities include hiking trails, horse rentals nearby, small boat rentals, and professional guide, climbing, packtrain services. Most scheduled programs take place July through September and during winter holidays. Regularly scheduled programs during the summer range from talks and demonstrations at the visitor centers to guided hikes, children's programs, and evening presentations in the campgrounds.
Topics span a wide range of natural and cultural history.
The park complex has many wayside exhibits, museum exhibits at both visitor centers, and 5 self-guiding interpretive trails. The Golden West Gallery in the Golden West Visitor Center at Stehekin during the summer features new exhibits every 3 weeks of work by artists and craftspeople of the area. Workshops and other programs by the exhibitors demonstrate or explain their work and how the landscape of the North Cascades has inspired them.