{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}} [[File:Cascade Loop sign on SR 525, Mukilteo (28959845426).jpg|thumb|right|Cascade Loop sign on SR 525 in Mukilteo.]] The '''Cascade Loop Scenic Byway''' is a {{convert|440|mi|km|adj=mid|-long}} National Scenic Byway and Washington State Scenic and Recreational Highway encircling the North Cascades in the U.S. state of Washington. It follows eight different numbered highways:<ref>{{cite web |title=Cascade Loop Scenic Byways |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/LocalPrograms/ScenicByways/CascadeLoop.htm |work=Scenic Byways Program |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |accessdate=October 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018120243/http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/LocalPrograms/ScenicByways/CascadeLoop.htm |archive-date=October 18, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |year=2011 |title=Washington State's Scenic Byways & Road Trips |url=ftp://ftp.wsdot.wa.gov/public/LocalPrograms/ScenicHighways/ScenicByways_TravelPlanner.pdf |pages=42–45 |publisher=Washington State Department of Commerce, Washington State Tourism, Washington State Department of Transportation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918222447/ftp://ftp.wsdot.wa.gov/public/LocalPrograms/ScenicHighways/ScenicByways_TravelPlanner.pdf |archive-date=2021-09-18 |url-status=dead |accessdate=June 16, 2015}}</ref>
*US 2 from Everett to Sunnyslope; *US 97 Alternate from Sunnyslope to Chelan; *US 97 from Chelan to Pateros; *SR 153 from Pateros to Twisp; *SR 20 from Twisp to Coupeville; *SR 525 from Coupeville to Mukilteo; *SR 526 from Mukilteo to Everett; and *I-5 in Everett
==History==
From 2012 to 2015, the Washington State Department of Transportation and Plug-In North Central Washington built 32 charging stations at popular destinations along the Cascade Loop, spaced {{convert|25 to 50|mi|km}} apart, to serve electric vehicles.<ref>{{cite press release |date=June 16, 2015 |title=Washington's 440 mile Cascade Scenic Loop is EV-ready |url=http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/News/2015/06/CascadeLoopEVReady.htm |publisher=Washington State Department of Transportation |accessdate=June 16, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Pitts |editor-first=Annette |year=2014 |title=The Cascade Loop Scenic Highway 2014-2015 Guidebook |page=41 |url=http://www.cascadeloop.com/flip_book/ |publisher=Cascade Loop Association |accessdate=June 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150611024130/http://www.cascadeloop.com/flip_book/ |archive-date=June 11, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Additional charging stations belonging to city governments, businesses and homeowners were added to the byway's list of electric charging stations in 2017.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Kelly |date=July 18, 2017 |title=Filling an electric byway |url=http://www.monroemonitor.com/Content/Default/Community/Article/Filling-an-electric-byway/-3/559/10706 |work=Monroe Monitor |accessdate=July 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170726221404/http://www.monroemonitor.com/Content/Default/Community/Article/Filling-an-electric-byway/-3/559/10706 |archive-date=July 26, 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Wilkinson |first=Eric |date=July 25, 2017 |title=Circuit of electric car charging stations completed on scenic byway |url=http://www.king5.com/news/local/circuit-of-electric-car-charging-stations-completed-on-scenic-byway/459485749 |publisher=KING 5 News |accessdate=July 26, 2017}}</ref>
The Cascade Loop was designated as a National Scenic Byway on January 19, 2021.<ref>{{cite news |last=Cauvel |first=Kimberly |date=February 19, 2021 |title=Cascade Loop gets National Scenic Byway designation |url=https://www.goskagit.com/news/local_news/cascade-loop-gets-national-scenic-byway-designation/article_0c3fd9e4-d6c2-5a6b-9b13-51abaa708456.html |work=Skagit Valley Herald |accessdate=March 19, 2021}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{official website|http://www.cascadeloop.com/}}
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