Space Age Fuel Travel Center A&W Burgers Castle Rock Wa Exit 52

05/13/2026

05/13/2026

Mount St Helens Institute New Live We**am

Science. Education. Exploration. The Mount St. Helens Institute connects people of all ages to Mount St. Helens and our natural world through educational programing designed to enrich visitors’ appreciation and understanding of the Pacific Northwest’s youngest and most active volcano.

05/13/2026

The Forest Learning Center at Mount St Helen's reopens this Saturday May 16th on your way to Mount St. Helens Science and Learning Center at Coldwater

05/07/2026

Visit Mount St Helens open to Coldwater Lake and the Hummocks Trails and the Mount St. Helens Science and Learning Center at Coldwater for a fantastic day in nature!!
Mount St. Helens Before 1980

Coldwater Lake at Mount St Helen's only 45 minutes east of Castle Rock and Toledo from the north with stunning views and 4 miles of paddling from the west end to the east end

Mount St. Helens Science and Learning Center at Coldwater is open to stop in before or after kayaking to learn more about the events at Mount St Helens

Mt. St. Helens + Cowlitz County Tourism
Eddyline Kayaks
Luckman Coffee Castle Rock

05/07/2026

Mountain Dew refreshing!!

5/1-5/7 is Short King awareness week. They’ve been through a lot

04/30/2026

Mt St Helens Month starts May 1st with lots of local history and Toutle River Mud Flow

Another Kodachrome photo from near Harmony Falls on Spirit Lake, Ca. summer 1975. Just the level of beauty....MSHB1980

04/30/2026

A&W Restaurants Root Beer Floats !!

04/09/2026

Mt St Helen's Month coming up with the activity building up back in 1980

On this day in 1980... 39 days until the eruption: "Cloud cover prevented scientists from observing the mountain today, either from the air or the ground, but light ashfalls near Timberline Viewpoint and Spirit Lake and the odor of sulfur marked at least three eruptions. An apparent decrease in seismic activity, begun yesterday, continued today."

By early afternoon on April 10, 1980, the clouds had cleared showing the cracks in the ice cap that were much too large to be hidden by fresh snow. The progressively growing crater now measured about 2000 feet by 1200 feet (photo A) and intermittent eruptions were observed (photo B) from a single circular vent, some powerful enough to throw out automobile-sized blocks of rock and ice.

"Precise instrumental measurements on the mountain are often hampered by rapid, short-term tilting of the ground. Two scientists measuring the gravity at East Dome felt an earthquake and then watched with fascination as the level bubbles on their instruments moved far off center in response to the strong upward tilt of the mountainside above them. This tilt was followed a few minutes later by a puff of steam from the crater, whereupon the bubbles registered a similar tilt in the opposite direction."

Foxworthy, B., and Hill, M., 1982, Volcanic eruptions of 1980 at Mount St. Helens: The first 100 days: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1249.

04/08/2026

Visit Mt. St. Helens at Mount St. Helens Science and Learning Center at Coldwater

Cowlitz Outdoors - SW Washington Fun Adventures

03/26/2026

Fill up.with A&W Restaurants Root Beer

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