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North Cascades National Park Word Search

Find all 15 words hidden in the grid — each one has a clue. Big and Little picked them.

Tap a letter to start, then tap the last letter of the word to find it. Or tap a word in the bar to hunt for it — clues are below the grid.

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  • DIABLO The lake you look down on from the State Route 20 pullout.
  • TURQUOISE The green-blue color that lake turns in the summer sun.
  • ROCKFLOUR Rock ground to powder by ice. It floats in the water and bends the light.
  • GLACIER A pile of snow packed into ice that slides downhill. Over 300 sit up here.
  • SHUKSAN A peak climbers reach by walking up the Sulphide Glacier.
  • SKAGIT The river at Newhalem. The Upper ____ people have lived along it for a very long time.
  • METHOW A valley on the dry east side. It is also the name of one of the Colville bands.
  • STEHEKIN A Salishan name for the way through. No road reaches this valley.
  • AVALANCHE Snow sliding fast down a slope. It is why the highway shuts each winter.
  • NEWHALEM The only town on the highway. A power company owns the whole place.
  • CEDARS Trail of the ____, a short flat walk through big trees at that town.
  • ORCHARD The Buckner apple ____. Pick a ripe one in late summer or fall.
  • RAINBOW These falls drop 312 feet, and the spray makes one on sunny days.
  • ROSSLAKE The long reservoir behind Ross Dam. Its north end touches Canada.
  • WILDERNESS Land kept with no roads and no buildings. Most of this park is the Stephen Mather ____.