The longtime practice of stocking alpine lakes continues at North Cascades National Park Complex in northwest Washington, where rainbow trout are added to 25 lakes despite national policy against it.

RELATED: 15 Stunning Hikes in North Cascades National Park, Washington. When to Hike the Chain Lakes Loop. ... Yes, you can swim in many of the Chain Lakes Loop Trail’s alpine lakes!

AP/Trail BlazersLewis Lake, a high alpine lake in North Cascades National Park, is one of many lakes that volunteer anglers stock with baby trout. Every summer, Sandy McKean and volunteers lug ...

Outside magazine ranked the nine best swimming holes in the national park system. Read where Washington's spot landed on the ...

North Cascades National Park Complex in Washington State is a three-for-one deal you shouldn’t miss. North Cascades National ...

North Cascades National Park is a beautiful alpine area located ... This 10.5-mile round trip path weaves through forests to reveal one of the park's quietest alpine lakes nestled against crisply ...

North Cascades National Park is 125 miles from Seattle. From I-5, take Exit 230 (about 65 miles north of Seattle). From there, Highway 20 trundles east through the Skagit River Valley.

North Cascades National Park is a truly remarkable place. The park’s wilderness is vast, with dense forests, high-mountain lakes, waterfalls, and jagged peaks crowned with glaciers.

Clocking in at 414,161 acres, the Alpine Lakes Wilderness—spread across two national forests and occupying that huge green void between U.S. Highway 2 and Interstate 90—is a backpacker’s mecca. ... In ...

The U.S. Army wants to create a North Cascades training area for helicopter pilots that would include a high-altitude landing site in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness Area and another within ...

SEATTLE — Every summer, Sandy McKean and volunteers lug plastic jugs full of baby trout into the rugged wilderness of North Cascades National Park and plant them in alpine lakes for anglers to ...