The northern part of the range, north of Mount Rainier, is known as the North Cascades in the United States but is formally named the Cascade Mountains north of the CanadaâUnited States border, reaching to the northern extremity of the Cascades at Lytton Mountain.
The perimeter of Washington Park in Denver, CO is about 2.60 miles.
The National Park-to-Park Highway, launched in the early 1900s to promote national parks in the West, was not a weekend drive. On the clear, cloudless morning of August 26th, 1920, in the city of Denver, Colorado, twelve American motorists set out on a 5,000 mile, 76-day pilgrimage to all twelve National Parks.