 It is located on U.S. Highway 2 about west of Stevens Pass, along a very flat and straight three-mile section of highway that has been dubbed the "Baring Straight" (a play on the Bering Strait between Alaska and Russia), since US-2 is otherwise hilly and curvy through the mountains.Baring is located in northeastern King County at (47.763755, -121.476079) in the valley of the South Fork Skykomish River.US-2 leads southeast to Skykomish and northwest to Everett.