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Article: NATURE'S ON A ROLL ALONG NORTH CASCADES HIGHWAY.(Getaways)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 26, 1999
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Do yourself a favor. Sometime before the first of November, schedule a trip over the North Cascades Highway.
Spectacular scenery fills the horizon around every bend. It's as close as you can get to North Cascades National Park in a vehicle, and the wild roadside vistas suggest an unspoiled wilderness just beyond.
Over a length of 132 miles, the road leads you from the small ranches and tiny towns scattered through the Skagit River valley, past the jade-green and turquoise lakes of the Skagit River Hydroelectric Project, beside the jagged peaks of the North Cascades and down into the pastoral valley of the Methow River.
With the summer tourist ...