North Cascades National Park Finally, the region's heart—the North Cascades National Park—is an expanse characterized by the IUCN category II designation, which speaks to its unspoiled ecosystems.

With glacier-clad peaks rising almost vertically from thickly forested valleys, the North Cascades are often called the American Alps. The national park forms one unit of the North Cascades ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC ... easiest to more difficult — in Shenandoah National Park. The hike goes down a fire road to a series of cascades that descend about 80 feet into a gorge, but there ...