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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.
The Wonderland Trail is an approximately 93-mile (150 km) [1] [2] hiking trail that circumnavigates Mount Rainier in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, United States. The trail goes over many ridges of Mount Rainier for a cumulative 22,000 feet (6,700 m) of elevation gain. [1] The trail was built in 1915. [3]
Shriner Peak [3] is a 5,834-foot-elevation (1,778-meter) mountain summit located in Mount Rainier National Park in Pierce County of Washington state. It is part of the Cascade Range and is situated south of Cayuse Pass, southwest of Seymour Peak, and southeast of Double Peak.
Summit Lake Trail is an easy 2.5-mile-long (4.0 km) hike up 1,500 feet (460 m) to Summit Lake. Mount Rainier can be seen from a high point near the lake. [5] [6]Clearwater Trail is a difficult 8.1-mile (13.0 km) hike over the Clearwater River and a number of creeks, and through old growth and meadows.
The hike to the gap along the Wonderland Trail, which can be joined 0.1 miles (0.16 km) from Fryingpan Creek Trailhead on Sunrise Road, has been described as "possibly the best day hike" in Mount Rainier National Park; it is 10.6 miles (17.1 km) roundtrip with 3,000 feet (910 m) of elevation gain.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
The Tatoosh Range is a mountain range located in Mount Rainier National Park and the adjacent Tatoosh Wilderness in the state of Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. [1] The range runs roughly east–west, beginning with the southeastern Moon Mountain and concluding with the western Rainbow Mountain and Eagle Peak. [1]
It is located south of Mount Rainier within Mount Rainier National Park. Lane Peak's toponym honors United States Secretary of the Interior Franklin Knight Lane , [ 3 ] who presided over the establishment of the National Park Service in 1917.
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