Where Can I Find Some Facts On Mount St. Helens?

You can visit the United States Geological Survey website for Mount Saint Helens photographs, current information, history and its eruptions. Different sites like WikiMapia and Google Maps provide maps of the mount and its surrounding areas as well as aerial photographs and satellite views.

You could visit www.mountsthelens.com, an information resource centre, which offers visitors assorted links and information on Mount Saint Helens, like lodging, gifts, visitor centers, restaurants, weather and even related events. Mount St. Helens in Skamania County, Washington is an active stratovolcano, located in the Pacific Northwest area of the United States. It is best known for its catastrophic eruption that took place on May 18, 1980. it proved to be the most deadly as well as the most economically destructive volcanic incident in the United States history.

There has been renewed activity starting from 2004, which led to the closure of fractions of the area to hikers and tourists, As of July 21, 2006, however, the mountain has been opened again to climbers.