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You still need to pay the entry fee in addition to the reservation. If you don’t plan to visit either of those two corridors, or if you enter the park before 7:00 a.m. or after 3:00 p.m., you ...
From May 24 through Labor Day, most visitors entering the Nisqually and Stevens Canyon entrances will need to make an online or phone reservation. Mount Rainier National Park to require ...
Mount Rainier Natonal Park, for the first time, will require timed-entry reservations for two of its most popular areas: Paradise Corridor from May 24 through Sept. 2 and Sunrise Corridor between ...
Mount Rainier National Park is a national park of the United States located in southeast Pierce County and northeast Lewis County in Washington state. [3] The park was established on March 2, 1899, as the fourth national park in the United States, preserving 236,381 acres (369.3 sq mi; 956.6 km 2) [1] including all of Mount Rainier, a 14,410-foot (4,390 m) stratovolcano.
Hazard map. Mount Rainier is a stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc that consists of lava flows, debris flows, and pyroclastic ejecta and flows. Its early volcanic deposits are estimated at more than 840,000 years old and are part of the Lily Formation (about 2.9 million to 840,000 years ago).
Jackson Visitor Center, 1966–2008. Mount Rainier was a pilot park in the Mission 66 program to expand National Park visitor services. The plans for the Paradise Visitor Center as a day-use facility came about as a compromise when the program was still trying to determine whether overnight lodging would be feasible.
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Location mi [1] km Destinations Notes 0.00: 0.00: Mount Rainier National Park: Road continues as Mowich Lake Road 10.91: 17.56: Fairfax Forest Preserve Road – Mount Rainier National Park: Carbon River: 11.55: 18.59: Fairfax Bridge 19.56: 31.48: SR 162 west – South Prairie, Orting 21.18: 34.09: SR 410 – Tacoma, Enumclaw, Yakima