They're known as the American Alps, and it doesn't take long in Washington's North Cascades to figure out why. Rows of jagged mountains cut across an impossibly vast horizon while aquamarine rivers ...

High-elevation trails, such as those in the North Cascades and Mount Rainier National Park, have fall colors earlier than ...

Prepare to have your ice-cold expectations blown away, because North Cascades National Park is not messing around when it ...

Hikes and walks, guide books or actuality, need not be put on the shelf for the winter. For example, your favorite wooded hike may be sufficiently trod that you can walk it even in snow in sneakers.