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Mount Baker as seen from Baker Lake. Baker Lake is a popular recreational area for fishing, camping, and boating and attracts local residents from adjacent Whatcom and Skagit counties. The Baker Lake area is also home to Swift Creek Campground which features 55 private campsites for tents or RVs, 2 group site as well as a boat ramp and marina.
To reach the summit of Mount Baker, the Coleman Glacier and Easton Glacier routes are used by experienced climbers. [5] Camping is another popular recreation activity in the area. Some campgrounds include parking for recreational vehicles (RVs) or trailers with bathroom amenities and running water.
Mount Baker National Forest was established as the Washington Forest Reserve on February 22, 1897, with 3,594,240 acres (14,545.4 km 2). It became a national forest on March 4, 1907, and was renamed Mount Baker National Forest on January 21, 1924. [6]
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).
The east side of Mount Baker in 2001. Sherman Crater is the deep depression south of the summit. Mount Baker (Nooksack: Kweq' Smánit; Lushootseed: təqʷubəʔ), [9] also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is a 10,781 ft (3,286 m) active [10] glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano [4] in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States.
The Mount Baker Ski Area has announced its plans to open for the winter after receiving heavy snowfall. During the weekend of Dec. 8-10, the mountain received 17 inches of new snow, readying the ...
Camping at the north end of 2-mile-long (3.2 km) Alta Lake Anderson Lake: Jefferson: 476 193 Trails, non-motorized boating, and lake fishing on Quimper Peninsula: Battle Ground Lake: Clark: 280 110 Fishing, swimming, camping, and trails in and around an ancient volcano crater Bay View: Skagit: 25 10 Camping, swimming, and boating on Padilla Bay ...
The cafe will be open from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday through Monday at mile marker 55 on Mount Baker Highway. Uisce Irish Pub reopens in new location. Uisce Irish Pub, ...