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The North Cascades feature some of the most rugged topography in the Cascade Range with craggy peaks, spires, ridges, and deep glacial valleys.Geological events occurring many years ago created the diverse topography and drastic elevation changes over the Cascade Range leading to the various climate differences.
The Fred Oldfield Western Heritage and Art Center was Founded in 2002. The Center commemorates and preserves Oldfield's contribution to Western art. The Oldfield Center is located on the Washington State Fairgrounds, in Puyallup. The Center provides an art school for students of all ages. [3]
Indian Painted Rocks is a tiny state park (approximately 2,000 sq ft (200 m 2)) right outside Yakima, Washington at the intersection of Powerhouse and Ackely Roads. The Indian rock paintings, also known as pictographs are on a cliff of basaltic rocks parallel to the current Powerhouse road which was once an Indian trail and later a main pioneer ...
Highest point; Elevation: 7,720+ ft (2,350+ m) NGVD 29 [1] Prominence: 200 ft (60 m) [1] Coordinates: 2]: Geography; Location: near Washington Pass, Chelan / Okanogan counties, Washington, U.S.: Parent range: North Cascades: Topo map: USGS Washington Pass: Geology; Rock type: Granite: Climbing; First ascent: 1946, Fred Beckey, Jerry O'Neil, and Charles Welsh: Easiest route: class 5.6 The ...
Gold Mountain is a 1,761-foot (537 m) summit in the Blue Hills on the Kitsap Peninsula of Washington state, in the United States' Pacific Northwest.It is the highest point on the Kitsap Peninsula and the highest point in Kitsap County, Washington, [1] and nearby 1,639-foot (500 m) Green Mountain is the second-highest point.
This range is the second largest in Washington State. Its highest peak is Mt. Olympus . A major effort called the Wild Olympics campaign is under way to protect additional wilderness areas on the Olympic Peninsula, protect salmon streams under the Wild and Scenic River Act and provide a means for Olympic National Park to offer to buy land ...
Prusik Peak [4] is an 8,008-foot (2,441-metre) granite summit located at the west end of The Temple in Chelan County of Washington state. Prusik Peak is part of The Enchantments within the Alpine Lakes Wilderness and is often the iconic photographic image of both areas. Prusik Peak belongs to the Stuart Range which is a subset of the Cascade Range.
Congress agreed to statehood but as Washington, after President Washington, to avoid confusion with the District of Columbia. A monument to the convention is located near the Longview Civic Center. [5] From 1854 to 1865 the town of Monticello was the seat of Cowlitz County, before being destroyed by the flooding of the Cowlitz River in December ...