---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 90a"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "90a"
heading: "Ross Lake National Recreation Area; establishment; statement of purposes; description of area"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/90a"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter X — North Cascades National Park"
---

# §90a. Ross Lake National Recreation Area; establishment; statement of purposes; description of area


In order to provide for the public outdoor recreation use and enjoyment of portions of the Skagit River and Ross, Diablo, and Gorge Lakes, together with the surrounding lands, and for the conservation of the scenic, scientific, historic, and other values contributing to public enjoyment of such lands and waters, there is hereby established, subject to valid existing rights, the Ross Lake National Recreation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) (hereinafter referred to in this subchapter as the “recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A)”). The recreation [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) shall consist of the lands and waters within the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) designated “Ross Lake National Recreation [Area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A)” on the [map](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=1) referred to in [section 90 of this title](/usc/16/90.md).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 90–544, title II, § 201, Oct. 2, 1968, 82 Stat. 927.)