Mount Baker

The board says Kulshan means steep, and neither people who use the word glosses it that way. In Nooksack, the language of the country the mountain stands in, Kwelshán names the high meadows and means shooting place, for the hunting there; the glaciated summit is Kweq' Smánit, white mountain. The Lummi, who did not hunt on its slopes, took the same word to mean a place wounded by a shot. The board's 10,750 feet is some thirty feet short of the modern figure. Joseph Baker sighted it from the Discovery at anchor in Dungeness Bay on April 30, 1792.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Artist Point — 15 mi
  The end of the Mount Baker Highway, a ridge between Baker and Shuksan below the ski area that holds the world record for snow in a single season.

More markers nearby

• Chuckanut Drive — 29 mi