Day Hike Washington: North Cascades, 5th Edition

Day Hike North Cascades
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Day Hike Washington: North Cascades, 5th Edition

More than 50 Trails around Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Chuckanuts, and Methow Valley
by Mike McQuaide

Explore North Cascades National Park and the wilderness around Washington state’s scenic North Cascades. In this handy guidebook, you’ll find the best North Cascades day hikes—featuring lush forests, alpine meadows, mountain vistas, and waterfalls. Each trail is rated based on views, water features, solitude, and other enjoyability factors, with hikes ranging from easy to moderate to extreme. Day Hike Washington: North Cascades also provides topographical maps, distance and elevation gain, best times to go, and updated permit and parking fees. ...

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Mar 04, 2025  |  Price: $21.95

Mike McQuaide is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to The Seattle Times. His articles have been published in Runner's World, Outside, USA Today, Adventure Cyclist, Trail Runner, and many other publications and websites. Mike is an avid trail runner and triathlete, as well as a mountaineer, snowboarder, and cyclist. He's been hiking and running Northwest trails for 20 years and is the author of Day Hike! Central Cascades. The author lives in Bellingham, WA.

"[Most guidebooks are by] backpackers who occasionally day hike. But most people are day-hikers, who occasionally backpack. And that's the key difference to this series." —Ron C. Judd "The series...earns points for rating each individual trip on a five-scale and for providing a comparative overview of all hikes in each book's introductory pages. For those of us who like to cherry-pick trails, ratings simplify our task." —Seattle Times "The presentation of basic facts (distance, elevation gain, maps, permits, etc.) is excellent and easy to follow. In addition to helpful topographical maps, t...
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