The two other units—Ross Lake National Recreation Area and Lake Chelan National Recreation Area—contain most visitor facilities. The park complex preserves virgin forests, fragile subalpine ...

Visitors last year: Ross Lake National Recreation Area, which takes in the Highway 20 corridor, counted 725,917 recreation visitors in 2013. Lake Chelan National Recreation Area: 37,315 visitors.

Lake Chelan National Recreation Area had 45,514 visitors, North Cascades National Park 28,646 and the Ross Lake National Recreation Area 905,418. The numbers of visitors for all three areas were ...