Mount Rainier National Park has started closing roads as snow is falling as low as Longmire.
Mount Rainier National Park has started closing roads as snow is falling as low as Longmire.
According to the park’s website, these roads are closed for the season:
• Mowich Lake Road.
• Sunrise Road.
• White River Road to the campground.
Starting Nov. 1, all vehicles in the park will be required to carry tire chains.
Park officials expect state routes 410 and 123 to close Nov. 26 and Chinook Pass to close Nov. 13.
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Inside our parks The road from Longmire to Paradise is again open seven days a week, as long as the weather permits.
The $1.5 million Claybell Park/Bellerive Drive project in Richland is getting under way.
The city and its contractor have started preparation work, said a city news release.
The project will include building four new tennis courts at the park, and adding two new multisport fields, a new walking trail around the fields, a new bathroom and a new parking lot.
KENNEWICK -- Thousands of students from around the Mid-Columbia will take over the east end of Columbia Park this week as part of the annual Salmon Summit.
The event is sponsored by the Benton County Conservation District and organizers are expecting 120 classes to visit the park's east boat launch Tuesday and Wednesday to release salmon the students have raised in their classrooms, according to a release. They'll also participate in various educational activities in the park.
The boat launch will be closed to the public both days from midnight to 3:30 p.m. The public still will be able to access the park but the road through the east end of the park will be closed from the east boat launch to the veterans memorial between 7 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. each day. Barricades will be placed and there will be someone directing traffic.
Managers at Mount Rainier National Park last week reiterated what impacts sequestration will have on park operations this summer.
The sale of the historic First Congregational Church in Tacoma to Mars Hill Church is final. Mars Hill’s purchase of the building near Wright Park for $1.9 million closed Nov. 30. Mars Hill is raising $1.5 million to renovate the building as the site of Mars Hill Tacoma, the 15th location for the Seattle-based megachurch.
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