Baring is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in King County, Washington, United States.

[5] The towns in the Skykomish River valley were established based on the railway and the roads built to cross the Cascade Mountains at Stevens Pass.

[6] In 1912, local citizens established a Good Roads Club to promote the construction of a cross-Cascades highway.

King County finished its 28-mile section by 1917, but the first automobiles did not cross until 1924, with the official opening taking place in July 1925.

The Stevens Pass Highway became State Road 15 in the 1930s, and was later realigned, paved, and renamed multiple times before ultimately becoming US 2 in the late 1940s.

Baring is located in northeastern King County in the valley of the South Fork Skykomish River.

The racial makeup of the CDP was 90.56% White, 2.58% Native American, 0.86% Asian, 0.43% Pacific Islander, and 5.58% from two or more races.