This glacier lake is as pretty as it gets, surrounded by towering peaks and filled with crystal-clear water that invites visitors to take a dip.

There’s an enduring myth that Lake Crescent in Washington state’s Olympic National Park is bottomless. Of course it’s not. (The maximum depth is 624 feet.) But it’s fair to say that the lake’s ...

Check out the rest of our 26 Best Lakeside Getaways in the Northwest here. We’ll never know for sure how much FDR’s stopover at Lake Crescent Lodge had to do with the declaration that created Olympic ...

Formed thousands of years ago, this crystal-clear, glacially carved lake has depths of up to 624 feet in places. As the ice retreated, it left behind a steep valley that filled with the waters of Lake ...

Mother Nature really had it in for us this winter, it seemed — and the Northwest doesn’t show much sign of warming a lot anytime soon. So when a friend recently asked if I wanted to join her for a ...