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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 .
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).
It became a national forest on March 4, 1907, and was renamed as 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 ...
Mount Baker Scenic Byway: 58 93 I-5 in Bellingham: Artist Point, Mt. Baker Ski Area: 1967 [1] Follows SR 542 to Mount Baker [9] North Cascades Scenic Byway: 140 230 SR 9 in Sedro-Woolley: SR 153 in Twisp: Follows SR 20 through North Cascades National Park [10] North Pend Oreille Scenic Byway † 27 43 SR 20 in Tiger: BC 6 at Canada–US border
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.
Mount Baker Highway: 58 93 I-5 in Bellingham: Artist Point, Mt. Baker Ski Area: April 27, 1967: Follows SR 542 toward Mount Baker [7] [8] Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway: 28 45 Summit of Mount Blue Sky: I-70 in Idaho Springs, Colorado [9] Mount Magazine Scenic Byway: 0 0 Mount Rogers Scenic Byway: 0 0 Mountain Loop Scenic Byway: 0 0 Mountain Waters ...
Mount Baker National Recreation Area is a designated National Recreation Area in the U.S. state of Washington. It is about 15 miles (24 km) south of the Canada–US border within the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in Northwestern Washington. The recreation area lies northwest of North Cascades National Park and comprises 8,600 acres ...
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.