By this time last year, Mt. Rainier started using timed entry for park visitors to avoid overcrowding. Here’s what to know ...

Located just six miles away from one of the most popular entrances to Mount Rainier National Park, the Nisqually Entrance, lies the town of Ashford, Washington. Home to just 672 residents ...

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Washington’s Mount Rainier boasts the largest collection of glaciers on a single peak in the contiguous United States.

One of the world’s oldest national parks, Mount Rainier became part of the federal system in 1899, shortly after its last eruption. Park status was the culmination of a long campaign by John ...

About half a dozen employees at each of Washington’s three national parks are believed to have been laid off as part of the ...

A joint U.S. Army and Air Force Reserve rescue mission in Washington state becomes a ... carry pararescuemen to the peaks and slopes of Mount Rainier. Their mission is to pull out anyone who ...

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