- Alpine Lakes Wilderness (historylink.org)
The Alpine Lakes Wilderness covers more than 414,000 acres within the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie and Okanogan-Wenatchee national forests in the northern Cascade Range of Washington. The wilderness includes parts of Chelan, Kittitas, and King counties. It is bordered by Snoqualmie Pass to the south, by the town of Leavenworth to the east, and by Stevens Pass to the north. The Alpine Lakes Wilderness got its name from its more than 600 ponds and lakes, which offer scenic grandeur and abundant water. The wilderness was created in 1976 by President Gerald Ford and expanded in 2014 by President Barack Obama. Most challenging for its future sustainability, it lies only an hour or two from the heart of Seattle.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
John 1:11 KJV
- Alpine Lakes Wilderness (summitpost.org)
The Alpine Lakes Wilderness is a wilderness area located in the central Cascade Mountains of Washington. Basically situated in the central Cascades between US-Highway 2/ Stevens Pass (on the northern end) and I-90/ Snoqualmie Pass (on the southern end), but not including the Teanaway region, the Alpine Lakes Wilderness is administered by both the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and Wenatchee National Forest.
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- Alpine Lakes Wilderness (Wikipedia)
The Alpine Lakes Wilderness is a large wilderness area spanning the Central Cascades of Washington state in the United States. The wilderness is located in parts of Wenatchee National Forest and Snoqualmie National Forest, and is approximately bounded by Interstate 90 and Snoqualmie Pass to the south and U.S. Route 2 and Stevens Pass to the north. The Alpine Lakes is the largest wilderness area near the population centers of Puget Sound, counted at 414,161 acres (167,605 ha) following the 2014 expansion.
- Alpine Lakes Wilderness (wilderness.net)
The Alpine Lakes Wilderness covers over 400,000 acres of the famously scenic Central Cascades of Washington. The Wilderness lies between Snoqualmie and Stevens Passes in the Northern Cascades portion of the Cascades Range, including the sub-range called the Wenatchee Mountains, which forms the Wenatchie-Yakima divide…