Highway 20 through North Cascades National Park opened to traffic on May 12. My brother John and I took our motorcycles on the road yesterday to see for ourselves. It is a trip we take most years, as it is with good cause that the makers of Destination Highways maps have designated the route between Skagit Valley and Methow Valley the top motorcycle road in Washington State.

Why was the road closed? Snow. The following WSDOT photo was taken in March 2017 down the hill behind where I was standing when I made the above photo of my Yamaha.

That is how the highway looks every spring. It is important to make the trip across the top of the state once the snow has been cleared to make sure the job was done correctly. Happy to report it was.