Baker Lake

Popular Artist Point near Mount Baker gets reliably high amounts of snow along with stunning views of the Cascades and Baker Lake.

At a beautiful campground on Baker Lake in the heart of the Cascades, I lifted the pop-top tent of a Mercedes Metris camper van from Seattle’s Peace Vans, plopped on the soft mattress and thought to myself, “I made it.”

He served part of a five-year sentence beginning in 1990 for sexual crimes against children in Baker Lake, Nunavut, committed between 1982 and 1989.

Avian flu has probably killed hundreds of double-crested cormorants nesting at Baker Lake near Barrington.

The outbreak at Baker Lake, about 40 miles northwest of Chicago, appears to be the first large die-off of wild birds from the disease in Illinois, wildlife biologist Chris Anchor said.