Mount Rainier National Park recently officially announced that it will not be using its recently-created timed reservation system, and offered tips for visitors coming during the peak season.

The lake formed from a volcanic blast, but there's nothing here now except beautiful scenery, peaceful walks in the woods, ...

Timed entry at Mount Rainier National Park was implemented as a pilot program in 2024 after seeing an approximate 40% increase in visitation over a decade. Overcrowding led to lon ...

Officials at Mount Rainier National Park have good news for visitors this year.No timed entry reservations are required to ...

Washington's Mount Rainier National Park will not implement timed entry reservations for any part of the park in 2026.

For 80 years an upright piano graced the lobby of the Paradise Inn at Mount Rainier. The instrument was encased in a framework of rustic Alaskan yellow cedar logs by German carpenter Hans Fraehnke, in ...

Before trailblazing Japanese photographer George Masa captured the beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains, where did his love of ...

The deaths of two experienced climbers on Mount Rainier this month have once again drawn attention to a hard truth about Washington’s most iconic peak and the West Coast’s tallest volcano: Even for ...

Following in Yosemite’s footsteps, another major national park on the West Coast is dropping a method for crowd management. Washington’s Mount Rainier National Park will not require timed-entry ...

A swarm of small earthquakes was detected at Mount Rainier Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) and the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network (PNSN).

The younger Mount Rainier stands atop the remnants of two older volcanic stories. The Naches Peak Loop trail is popular for its views of Mount Rainier, but there are more volcanic stories to be found ...

The top of the mountain is coming down. Five different U.S. mountains, including Mount Rainier, are experiencing ice loss at their peaks, bringing down their highest elevations. And the problem is ...