William Stanek's Cascade Volcanoes & Columbia Country
A Literary Field Guide to Cascade Volcanoes & Columbia Country National Parks & Scenic Sites

The Cascade Range is a chain of mountains connected by fire, ice, water, and weather. Volcanoes rise individually but belong to a larger system. Rivers cut away from them. Glaciers feed valleys. Forests record eruption and fire. The Columbia creates a great east-west passage through north-south mountain country. William Stanek's Cascade Volcanoes & Columbia Country follows those relationships. Rainier, volcanic landscapes farther south, gorge country, river corridors, waterfalls, forests, passes, and surrounding scenic lands become one journey of changing elevation and climate. The guide helps travelers distinguish a volcano day from a gorge day, a mountain road from a through-route, and a famous viewpoint from the system that made it possible. For road travelers, hikers, photographers, families, couples, solo visitors, geology enthusiasts, and Northwest return travelers, this is a regional guide to the forces that made the Cascades-and the river that cuts through them.