A Mountain Vacation Land 
Where forest and glacier meet. 
Austin Pass Meadows 
Recent highway construction has made the Austin 
This hitherto 
little known section of the Washington Forest, which 
Pass meadow region easily accessible. 
promises to become a popular mountain playground, is 
reached by the new Mount Baker Highway, which leaves 
the main Pacific Highway at Bellingham, a few miles 
above the point where the latter skirts the waters of 
Puget Sound along Chuckanut Drive. The trip from 
Bellingham to the terminus of the mountain road in 
Austin Pass Meadows requires about two and one-half 
hours. From Bellingham an auto ferry, operated by the 
Canadian Pacific Railroad, connects the Mount Baker 
Highway with Victoria and other Vancouver Island points. 
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Mount Shuksan from Sunrise Lake. 
The Mount Baker Highway enters the Washington 
Forest at the town of Glacier, and follows the timbered 
valley of North Fork of the Nooksack River for 14 miles 
to the old mining camp at Shuksan. Seven miles from 
Glacier it passes Nooksack Falls, a dashing cataract over 
too feet high, just below which the Forest Service has 
Tables and 
fireplaces have been provided, both as an accommoda- 
located the Cottonwood Camp Grounds. 
tion to tourists and for fire prevention. A similar camp 
eround is located at Riverside, just outside the town 
At Shuksan the Mount Baker High- 
way turns southward and climbs abruptly into the 
limits of Glacier. 
meadows of Austin Pass, 
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