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State Route 542 (SR 542) is a 57.24-mile-long (92.12 km) state highway in the U.S. state of Washington, serving Mount Baker in Whatcom County.SR 542 travels east as the Mount Baker Highway from an interchange with Interstate 5 (I-5) in Bellingham through the Nooksack River valley to the Mt. Baker Ski Area at Austin Pass.
The road leading to Artist Point, which is the last 2.7-mile stretch of State Route 542 on Mount Baker Highway, reopened Wednesday morning for vehicles. The road, located above the Mount Baker Ski ...
Mount Baker Highway is officially called State Route 542, and it runs from Bellingham near Interstate 5, where it is called Sunset Drive, to its end at milepost 58, which is Artist Point.
The water flows through a narrow valley and drops freely 88 feet into a deep rocky river canyon. The falls are viewable from the forested cover near the cliffs edge. The falls are a short 2/3 of a mile drive off the Mount Baker Highway, Washington (State Route 542). [1] The falls were featured in the hunting scene of the movie The Deer Hunter.
It became a national forest on March 4, 1907, and was renamed Mount Baker National Forest on January 21, 1924. [6] Snoqualmie National Forest was established from land in Washington NF on 1 July 1908 with 961,120 acres (3,889.52 km 2). A part of Rainier National Forest was added on October 19, 1933. The two were administratively combined in 1974.
Both construction sites are on Mount Baker Highway, officially called State Route 542, the main road from Bellingham toward the Mount Baker wilderness and the starting point for popular trails ...
Mount Baker Wilderness is a 119,989-acre (48,558 ha) wilderness area within the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in the western Cascade Range of northern Washington state. Its eastern border is shared with the boundary of the Stephen Mather Wilderness and North Cascades National Park for a distance of 40 miles (65 kilometers).
Visitors enjoy the Heather Meadows area along the Mount Baker Highway Sept. 18 in Whatcom County. The Washington State Department of Transportation will close an area of the highway from 7 a.m. to ...