11 Facts About Mount Baker

Mount Baker has the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range after Mount St Helens.

Mount Baker is the third-highest mountain in Washington and the fifth-highest in the Cascade Range, if Little Tahoma Peak, a subpeak of Mount Rainier, and Shastina, a subpeak of Mount Shasta, are not counted.

Mount Baker was well-known to indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest.

Mount Baker's mission was to survey the northwest coast of America.

Mount Baker chose a route via the Skagit River, but was forced to turn back when local Native Americans refused him passage.

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Research beginning in the late 1990s shows that Mount Baker is the youngest of several volcanic centers in the area and one of the youngest volcanoes in the Cascade Range.

Subsequently, eruptions in the Mount Baker area have produced cones and lava flows of andesite, the rock that constitutes much of other Cascade Range volcanoes such as Rainier, Adams, and Hood.

Mount Baker is drained on the north by streams that flow into the North Fork Nooksack River, on the west by the Middle Fork Nooksack River, and on the southeast and east by tributaries of the Baker River.

Lake Shannon and Mount Baker Lake are the largest nearby bodies of water, formed by two dams on the Mount Baker River.

The first was USS Mount Baker, which was commissioned from 1941 to 1947 and from 1951 to 1969.

Mount Baker's was decommissioned in 1996 and placed in service with the Military Sealift Command as USNS Mount Baker .