This is where you can find websites, helpful phone numbers, friends groups and cooperating associations, and, sometimes, books related to the park.

North Cascades National Park: https://www.nps.gov/noca

Physical And Mailing Address

810 State Route 20
Sedro-Woolley, WA 98284

Visitor Information: 360-854-7200

For maps of the park, area, and specific sites, click here.

This site is fee-free year-round. No entrance fee or pass is required.

For information about bringing pets, click here.

Friends Organizations and Cooperating Associations

Washington’s National Park Fund is the official fund-raising partner for North Cascades National Park and actively solicits private charitable contributions from individuals, corporations and foundations.

North Cascades Institute is a nationally recognized education nonprofit organization that empowers people of all ages and backgrounds to explore, enjoy and learn about the mountains, rivers, forests, people and wildlife of the Pacific Northwest—so all will care for and protect this special place.

Helpful Books

Crown Jewel Wilderness: Creating The North Cascades National Park
In Crown Jewel Wilderness, environmental historian Lauren Danner masterfully tells the story of the decades of political wrangling over the North Cascades. She examines North Cascades history in the context of national debates about what agency should be the primary provider of outdoor recreation – the Forest Service or the National Park Service – what areas should be national park as opposed to national forest, and who should manage wilderness in places like the North Cascades. 

Day Hiking: North Cascades
Written by Craig Romano, who also authored Day Hiking: Olympic Peninsula, this book takes you from the coast to some of the most alluring peaks of the North Cascades. Not long on prose, the book features 125 hikes in a to-the-point fashion that gets you to the trailhead, rates the difficulty of the hike, gives the basics (mileage, elevation gain, and best season), and provides both a rudimentary map of the hike and GPS coordinates. 

The North Cascades Highway: A Roadside Guide To America’s Alps
Each year thousands of drivers travel Washington State's breathtakingly beautiful North Cascades Highway (State Route 20), observing the region's alpine flora and fauna and its dramatic geologic features. The North Cascades Highway, an illustrated natural history guide, helps travelers and readers to appreciate the deeper beauty behind the landscape.