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Lake Chelan National Recreation Area is a national recreation area located about 35 miles (56 km) south of the Canada–US border in Chelan County, Washington. It encompasses an area of 61,958 acres (25,074 ha) including the northern end of Lake Chelan and the surrounding area of the Stehekin Valley and the Stehekin River .
Lake Chelan (/ ʃ ə ˈ l æ n / shə-LAN) is a narrow, 50.5 mi (81.3 km) long lake in Chelan County, north-central Washington state, U.S. [1] It is an overdeepened lake and resembles a fjord, with an average width of 1.3 mi (2.1 km). Near its upper end, the lake surface lies more than 6,600 ft (2,000 m) below peaks less than 3 mi (4.8 km) away.
Lake Chelan State Park is a public recreation area covering 139 acres (56 ha) on the southwest shore of Lake Chelan in Chelan County, Washington, on the east side of the Cascade Mountains. The state park was created with the state's initial purchase of land in 1942; it opened in 1943. The park offers camping, picnicking, hiking, boating, and ...
Lake Chelan Dam officially known as the Lake Chelan Hydroelectric Project is located approximately 32 miles (51 km) north of the city of Wenatchee in Chelan County. The dam is located at the lower or southeasterly end of 50.4 miles (81.1 kilometres) [ 5 ] long Lake Chelan , and is within the limits of the city of Chelan .
Holden Village is located in the Cascade Range in Washington, in the Wenatchee National Forest. [3] [4] [5] Inaccessible by car, visitors (volunteers, guests, and through-hikers) generally take a ferry up Lake Chelan from Chelan or Fields Point Landing to Lucerne where they board a Village bus which takes them up an 11-mile (18 km) gravel road through a set of 12 switchbacks, and into Holden ...
Jul. 11—MOSES LAKE — The Pioneer Fire burning along the eastern shore of Lake Chelan is still growing, and was at 12,265 acres Wednesday, according to the Washington State Department of ...
The TTB eventually lifted that freeze and approved the petition for the Lake Chelan AVA in April 2009 with the designation slated to take effect in late May 2008. [5] The approval made the Lake Chelan Washington's 11th AVA and the second wine region in the state to be recognized in 2009, following the January approval of the Snipes Mountain AVA ...
Coon Lake, a 15 acres (0.061 km 2) lake, and its associated 3 miles (4.8 km) stream, Coon Creek, are located in the Stehekin River Valley in Washington State’s Cascade Mountain Range. They are both within the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area , a part of both the North Cascades National Park Complex and the Stephen Mather Wilderness . [ 1 ]