Naches Pass (elevation 4,928 feet (1,502 m)) is a mountain pass in the Cascade Range in the state of Washington. It is located about 50 miles (80 km) east of Tacoma and about 50 miles (80 km) northwest of Yakima, near the headwaters of tributary streams of the Naches River on the east and the Greenwater River on the west. The boundaries of Pierce, King, Kittitas, and Yakima counties come together at the pass. The pass lies on the boundary between the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie and Wenatchee National Forests, about 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Mount Rainier National Park. There are no roadways or railways crossing the pass.
Native peoples used trails over the pass before the arrival of white settlers. Throughout the 1800s, the United States, Washington Territory, and private parties explored the construction of a wagon road or railroad over the pass, but nearly all such attempts failed. By 1855, nearby Snoqualmie Pass had been established as a far superior route over the mountains, being 1,913 feet (583 m) lower. In 1943, a proposal to construct a highway was written into state law and remains as the proposed State Route 168 – however, no highway has ever been built, and the trails over the pass are usable only for hiking and other recreation.
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Persuaded to take the new "People's Road" over NachesPass, they followed a route up the Naches and Little Naches Rivers to the mountains, leaving the prairies...
The Naches Peak Loop is a trail route that goes around Naches Peak, containing a segment of the Pacific Crest Trail. Cayuse Pass Chinook Pass at the...
of Chinook Pass, the roadway begins to parallel the American River northeast to follow the Little Naches River, which becomes the Naches River. After...
The Naches River is a tributary of the Yakima River in central Washington in the United States. Beginning as the Little Naches River, it is about 75 miles...
1853 and 1854. Their goal was to find a pass better suited for a railroad than NachesPass, where the Naches Trail crossed the Cascade Mountains. They...
SR 706. PSH 5 WP (White Pass): A connector between PSH 1 and PSH 5 in Naches. Now part of US 12. An additional branch, the NachesPass Highway, was not given...
Naches Trail (also spelled Nachess) is a historic trail in the U.S. state of Washington. It extends from the Naches River in Eastern Washington in the...
travel east along the historic Naches Trail, passing through Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest and across NachesPass to Wenatchee National Forest...
near Fort Colville resulted in many miners crossing Yakama lands via NachesPass, and conflicts rapidly escalated into violence. It took several years...
range. Passes across the range were not well known and little used. NachesPass was used for driving cattle and horses to Fort Nisqually. Yakima Pass was...
Pass was later chosen for the region's first major cross-mountain road in the 1860s, having beaten the federal government's favored route over Naches...
to the east. The name Naches Peak was proposed by the Yakima Chamber of Commerce and approved by Asahel Curtis in 1927. The Naches Peak Loop Trail is a...
The Wilkes expedition made the first successful navigation over the NachesPass just north of Mount Rainier, which had been seen as a potential route...
provisions. He quickly went to their aid, intending to guide them through the NachesPass into the Puget Sound area. When he found his family's party close to...
metamorphic terranes which is generally north of Snoqualmie Pass, Snoqualmie Pass itself, or NachesPass at the White River Fault Zone. While alpine glaciers...
and settler. He led the first wagon train on the Naches Trail across the Cascades Range at NachesPass in 1853, and then settled on Yelm Prairie within...
previously been sent east to cross the NachesPass and enter the Yakama homeland from the rear. Finding the pass blocked with snow he began returning west...
of the Great American Plains emigrants, among the first to cross the NachesPass, a member of Washington Territorial Volunteers, and a ranger during the...
the Naches River. The Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail follows closely the Cascade divide in the Norse Peak Wilderness. The historic NachesPass Trail...
Commission requested that the interstate would follow US 410 across NachesPass to Tacoma and Aberdeen, but the proposal was quietly abandoned. The routing...
Yakima counties within Washington state, chiefly in the Kittitas Valley, Naches Valley, Wenas Valley, and upper Yakima Valley. Individuals of Kittitas descent...
soldiers. Their remains are also buried in the Fort Walla Walla Cemetery. NachesPass road, between Fort Walla Walla and Fort Steilacoom, was built in 1853...
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