We also greatly enjoy the Paradise side and the gondola ride, which goes up to the top of Crystal Mountain giving a restful, relaxing, beautiful view of Mount Rainier—safe from the bears.

If you plan to drive to the Sunrise Corridor of Mount Rainier National Park this summer, you will have to jump through some hoops to get there. In an announcement on its Instagram page on May 8 ...

Mount Lassen became one of the first volcanic eruptions ever captured on moving film. This map, provided by the National Park Service, shows the primary volcanoes in the Cascade Mountain Range.

A wooden trestle bridge on the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad has been destroyed in an alleged arson, putting the future of the railway’s plans to expand in jeopardy. The fire destroyed a 28-span ...

Employees at Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad are reeling after a fire destroyed one of the railroad’s biggest bridges late Wednesday night. According to a Thursday morning Facebook post, a fire on ...

How did they come to be? Typically, a mountain range will rise in places where two tectonic plates clash with each other. But East Antarctica has been tectonically stable for millions of years.

Rising 14,410 feet above the ocean, Mount Rainier can be seen from Seattle on a clear day, only a couple of hours away. With its cone-shaped peak, it’s an active volcano and one of the most glaciated ...

Mount St. Helens, located in the Cascade Mountain range in Washington State and 50 miles northeast of Portland, is famous for its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980. FOLLOWING THE ERUPTION ...

ELBE, Wash. — More than a week after a devastating fire destroyed a crucial part of the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad, officials are assessing the damage and planning the next steps for recovery.

SEATTLE — Mount St. Helens stood silent for over a century in Washington’s Cascade Range, but that all changed ... s summit began to slide down the mountain. The landslide of rock and ice ...

From the backpack, I would point to Mount Rainier, calling it “my mountain.” Recently, visiting our iconic mountain has become much more difficult. In 2023, Mount Rainier National Park ...