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Probably a longshot here, but if anyone who's out there that's inclined to make scenery (or has the knowlege to), here's a suggestion.

I was thinking maybe someone with the knowledge could design and release some freeware packages containing the three primary Mt. St. Helens visitors centers.

It goes in tandem with my Mt. St. Helens Hoffstadt Bluffs Tours Helicopter paint scheme for the default Bell 206B that I plan on releasing soon.

The visitors centers are the Hoffstadt Bluffs Visitors Center, the Forest Service Interpretive Center (just down the road from Hoffstadt Bluffs), the Coldwater Ridge Visitors Center located eight miles NW of the crater, and the Johnston Ridge Observatory just five miles north of the crater itself.

As soon as I release my Hoffstadt Bluff's paint scheme, I think it'd be a perfect companion for flying around the Mt. St. Helens area.  

Another idea to add in tandem would be the Paradise Visitors Center and Paradise Lodge on the south side of Mt. Rainier.

Any ideas on how I'd go about designing the scenery myself?

I'm relatively new to scenery design, and I'm hoping to improve the experience of flying above Mt. St. Helens and Mt. Rainier.

http://www.hovercontrol.com/
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MtStHelenaField
FS9
Mount St Helena South Field
My first attempt at scenery design. A fictional STOL airfield on the south side of the volcanoe. Sounds included for those with FSE. Scenery designed using FSSC for FS9.
Stephen Read

Not even close. There's no MSH visitor center on the south side.

They're all on the north side to take in the view of the one-and-a-half-mile-wide crater left behind by the eruption of May 18th, 1980. One in which Mt. St. Helens lost 1,313 feet and created the largest landslide ever recorded in history.

These are the exact coordinates of each of the Visitor Centers based on FS coordinates.

Hoffstadt Bluffs Visitor Center (14 miles away - a mile away from the Blast Zone outer boundary)
N46* 19.6100' W122* 28.4300' altitude 1400 ft

Elk Rock viewpoint (a pull-off on Highway 504)
N46* 17.37  W122* 20.36 altitude 3353.9

Castle Lake Viewpoint (a pull-off on Highway 504)
N46* 18.55 W122* 17.75 Altitude 3386.8

Coldwater Ridge Visitor Center (eight miles from the mountain)
N46* 17.88 W122* 15.94 Altitude 3117.1

Johnston Ridge Observatory/Visitor Center
N46* 16.52 W122* 12.86 Altitude 4212.9 (four miles due north of the crater)