Mt. Shuksan & Mt. Baker - Pictures and location info

[muralin]

Most visitors to the Pacific Northwest visit Mt. Rainier, the Olympic peninsula, Columbia Gorge and the Oregon coast. A place worthy of a visit especially in early October is the Mt. Baker wilderness area in the Northern Cascades, 135 miles north of Seattle. Every time I have been there, I see only folks from around the area and from British Columbia. In the fall of 2012 (1st week in Oct), a friend and I did a day trip to take photographs along the Artist Point trail and at both Picture Lake and Highwood Lake. The fall foliage was spectacular. see a sample image below. Chckout the rest of the images and lat-long info at https://muralipix.com/2017/05/13/mt-baker-mt-shuksan-oct-2012/

[luxborealis]

A quintessential photograph.

[praja343]

Plan to go there next fall for the larches. Thanks for the info. Great image too!

[Joe Towner]

This is the current state of the road to Artist point...

https://twitter.com/wsdot_north/status/863092369695965184

[luong]

Plan to go there next fall for the larches. Thanks for the info. Great image too!

There are no larches in the Picture Lake area. In the Cascades, the range of the subalpine larch is limited to a narrow band on the eastern ridge, coinciding with the park’s eastern boundary. The subalpine larch requires a dry climate and high elevation. To the west, the climate is too wet, whereas to the east, the elevation is too low. For more information, see: https://www.terragalleria.com/blog/north-cascades-alpine-larch-at-night/