There are, according to various sources, at least 63
named mountain ranges in Washington. The
two major ranges are the Olympic Mountains on the Olympic Peninsula close to
the Pacific Ocean and the Cascade Mountains east of Seattle.
The Olympic Mountains are home to Hurricane Ridge
(covered in H is for Hurricane Ridge) and you will find Mount Rainier, the
highest mountain and volcano in Washington at 14,411 feet in the Cascade
Mountains. You can see Mount Rainier
from many viewpoints in the state and it is truly majestic.
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| Our first sighting of Mount Rainier when we arrived in Washington, August 2014 |
I suppose Washington’s most recognizable mountain is
Mount St. Helens, location of the catastrophic volcanic eruption in 1980, and
now a National Volcanic Monument administered by the U.S. Forest Service.
Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens are definitely on our
list of places to explore.
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