Mount Rainier National Park News

After flushing it's prey out into the open, a fox pounces on dinner in the meadows near Paradise at Mount Rainier National Park.

The early afternoon sun cast a golden glow Sunday as a small knot of visitors watched rangers lower the flag outside the Henry M. Jackson Memorial Visitor Center.

The National Parks Conservation Association is hosting an exhibit of work by Seattle photographer Doug Hebenthal featuring Mount Rainier National Park.

Nothing lures visitors to Paradise like the transitory displays of wildflowers that populate Mount Rainier's high mountain meadows.

South Sound residents will have the opportunity to help their favorite parks on Saturday, as agencies through the region are holding volunteer work parties.

Mount Rainier National Park officials are recommending that a short section of the Wonderland Trail in the Carbon River area be rerouted.

The Gifford Pinchot National Forest is calling for volunteers to join its 10th annual Pick Up the Pinchot events scheduled for this Saturday.

Think back to those early years after college graduation, when you called all your buddies to help you when you moved from apartment to apartment, town to town.

Julia Munger walks through a meadow while searching for alpine butterflies at the Mt.

The only reason I even know about stone quarries is from watching the Flintstones.

Eatonville's come up with a sure-fire strategy for snaring passing tourists: Let them go potty.

Many drivers brush by the town of Eatonville on their way to Mount Rainier. Usually, they keep going.

Highway 123 in Mount Rainier National Park will be closed for roadway and safety repairs for a couple of weeks starting Tuesday.

The ailing economy apparently has taken another tourism industry victim. GrandLuxe Rail Journeys, a luxury train that visits Mount Rainier National Park via Tacoma Rail tracks as part of a Northwest rail tour, ...

Enlarge image Ashford's Andrew Carey and Mary Foster - shown at what's left of the Sunshine Point campground, swept away in 2006 - are among those urging that the levee withstand not just a 100-year flood, but ...

Remember when heavy rains washed out major roads and trails in Mount Rainier National Park? It took an unprecedented and heroic effort on the part of many to get the park back in shape for visitors, including a ...

Mount Rainier Volunteers, the volunteer organization of Mount Rainier National Park, will working this Saturday.

Park visitors can leave the driving to someone else by riding one of two shuttles.

The Tolmie Peak Lookout is one of the sites hikers can enjoy. RON GRAHAM/For the Herald-Republic Mount Rainier towers in the background during a hike to the Spray Park area.

Burroughs Mountain is the remnant of an ancient lava flow. Two trails lead there from Sunrise in Mount Rainier National Park.