Winter is almost here, and Mount Rainier National Park is gearing up for the 2024-25 winter recreation season with updates to its schedule. Starting Tuesday, November 12, new access guidelines ...

Effective immediately, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) has closed the State Route 165 Carbon River ...

The best time to visit Mount Rainier National Park is July through ... you'll be treated to a winter wonderland if you visit between November and March. The park is open year-round, but in the ...

“Mount Rainier keeps me up at night because it poses ... A lahar is a fast-moving debris flow The deadliest lahar in recent memory was in November 1985 when Colombia’s Nevado del Ruiz volcano ...

The first sight Zalmai “Zeke” Zahir would see most mornings growing up in Seattle and on the Muckleshoot reservation was the white-capped grooves of Mount Rainier. A linguist, Zahir recently ...

One of the world’s oldest national parks, Mount Rainier became part of the federal ... Carbon River Road washed out in a November 2006 flood (check with the park for closure information).

Hanging in a crevasse.” A crevasse is a deep crack in a glacier, and Mount Rainier — which lies about three hours southeast of Seattle — is the “most heavily glaciated peak in the ...

TACOMA, Wash. — The Puyallup Tribe is working to learn more about the many native names of the mountain now known as Mount Rainier. It is doing this with the hope of eventually restoring the ...

ASHFORD, Wash. — Visitors flock to Mount Rainier for its iconic views but Saturday the park became a platform for a growing national movement. Dozens gathered as part of a nationwide day of ...

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.