Hand Knit Pattern @nancybatesdesigns New, Never Worn Average Adult Size, 19”- 22” Circumference Unisex Style 100% Merino Wool, Faux Leather Tag Hand Wash, Shape To Air Dry Washington’s American Alps 💫 Jagged snow covered mountain peaks, high meadows and wildflowers, forested valleys, and over 300 glaciers have earned this park the nickname American Alps. It’s the only place like it in the U.S. outside of Alaska. Melting snow and rainfall feed the hundreds of lakes, rivers, streams, and flowing cascades (the park’s namesake) while runoff from glaciers deposit a type of silt that gives the lakes of North Cascades their charactestic milky turquoise color.