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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.
East side of Lake Chelan, south of Flick Creek, about 3.2 miles (5.1 km) southeast of Stehekin, in Lake Chelan National Recreation Area: Stehekin: 18: Golden West Lodge Historic District: Golden West Lodge Historic District
The Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness is a 153,057-acre (61,940 ha) protected wilderness area located within the Okanogan and Wenatchee national forests in Washington State. The wilderness borders Lake Chelan National Recreation Area and North Cascades National Park and the Stephen Mather Wilderness to the northwest. [1]
Stehekin is part of Wenatchee–East Wenatchee Metropolitan Statistical Area. Located at the northwest end of Lake Chelan, the town lies just south of the North Cascades National Park. Stehekin is within the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area, a unit administered by the National Park Service (NPS).
The three National Recreation Areas within the state of Washington are: Lake Chelan National Recreation Area near Chelan; Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area near Spokane; Ross Lake National Recreation Area near Newhalem
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The lake and creek retained the "Coon" names until the early 21st Century. [3] In 2007, Washington State changed the names to "Howard Lake" and "Howard Creek," but the U.S. government, which administers the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area in which the lake and creek are located, refused to concur. [4]