— a granite bell at the top of the road.
“State Route 20 climbs the Methow side of the North Cascades to Washington Pass at 5,477 feet, then descends west. From a paved overlook above the final hairpin, Liberty Bell Mountain stands across the cirque at 7,720 feet, a near-vertical granite tower with Concord, Lexington, and the Early Winters Spires lined up behind. The highway closes for winter once snow makes plowing impractical, usually by late November. In the months it is open, the overlook is one of the most-photographed views in Washington, and the spires draw climbers from across the country.
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Liberty Bell Mountain is a granite spire in the North Cascades, on the boundary of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest in Okanogan County, Washington. The summit is 7,720 feet (2,353 m). State Route 20, the North Cascades Highway, crosses the range immediately south at Washington Pass (5,477 ft / 1,669 m), the highest pass on any Washington state highway. The Washington Pass Overlook is a short paved walk from a parking area on the west side of the pass; from it, Liberty Bell, Concord Tower, Lexington Tower, and the North and South Early Winters Spires line up across the cirque. Highway 20 is closed in winter, generally from late November through April.
Liberty Bell and the surrounding towers (Concord, Lexington, and the North and South Early Winters Spires) are part of the Golden Horn batholith, a body of granitic rock that intruded about 48 million years ago. The rock is granodiorite to monzogranite, pale grey, with the kind of clean cracks climbers prize. The most famous route, the Beckey Route on Liberty Bell, was first climbed in 1946 by Fred Beckey, Charles Welsh, and Jerry O'Neil at grade 5.6, and remains one of the most-climbed alpine routes in the state. The east face holds Liberty Crack, one of Washington's earliest big-wall climbing routes.
State Route 20 reaches the Washington Pass Overlook about 75 miles (120 km) west of Winthrop and 45 miles (72 km) east of Marblemount. The overlook is a short paved walk from a parking area on the west side of the pass; the view opens onto Liberty Bell, the towers, and the upper Early Winters Creek basin. The pass typically closes between mid-November and late November once snow makes plowing impractical, and reopens between late April and mid-May depending on snowpack and avalanche control. October brings peak subalpine larch in the surrounding basins; the gold below Liberty Bell is one of the season's most-photographed combinations in the state.