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Tips for Drivers
Tour length: 56 miles (90 km).
Starting point: State Route 20
(North Cascades Highway)
at the entrance to Ross Lake
National Recreation Area,
approximately 5 miles (8 km)
north of Marblemount.
When to go: Mid-Apr–mid-Oct,
when all of Route 20 is open.
Stopping-off points: There are
restaurants in Marblemount and
5 Diablo Lake Winthrop, but in the park itself
North Cascades Ross Lake Diablo Lake owes its rich turquoise there are only picnic facilities. It is
National Park National color to sediment from glacier-fed a good idea to bring along your
(North Unit) Recreation Area streams. Boat tours of Diablo Lake own provisions. You can stock up
are offered Thursday to Monday in on groceries and buy hot soup
July and August; Saturday and and coffee at the Skagit General
Sunday in June and September. Store in Newhalem.

6 Ross Lake Overlook
At this lookout, dramatic
J vistas of 24-mile- (40-km-)
J long Ross Lake, created by
Ruby Creek the damming of Skagit
Newhalem River, come into view.
North Cascades NORTH CASCADES HIGHWAY
National Park
(South Unit)
7 Washington Pass Overlook
Rainy Pass This overlook, 5,477 ft (1,669 m)
above ground level, offers heart-
J pounding views of the steep
pass up Liberty Bell Mountain.
CASCADES RIVER ROAD

Lake Chelan
Glory National
Recreation Area
MCALESTER TRAIL /RAINBOW CREEK TRAIL
Stehekin

Lake
Chelan

8 Rainbow Falls
Accessible on foot after a 20-mile
(32-km) hike from Rainy Pass or
a short hike from Stehekin, these
The jagged peak of Glory Mountain’s 7,228-ft- spectacular falls are located on a
(2,203-m-) high summit creek leading into Lake Chelan.

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