How long is the Wonderland Trail? Depending on whom you ask, you’ll likely get an answer between 90 and 94 miles.
Inside our parks Washington’s National Park Fund hopes to raise more than $90,000 at its annual spring fundraiser April 12.
One of the great things about a trek like the Wonderland Trail is it will take you to places where you’ll feel like few have gone before.
Editor’s note: The 93-mile Wonderland Trail is high on the bucket list of most Northwest hikers. This is the first story in a three-month series about preparing for and hiking Mount Rainier National Park’s iconic trail. Depending on the point of reference, a hastily scribbled note and my dilapidated fax machine either perfected or ruined our attempt to hike what’s arguably Washington’s most famous trail.
The names of two Mount Rainier National Park employees have been added to a memorial plaque that honors National Park Service employees who have died in the line of duty.
Mount Rainier National Park will not open the Ohanapecosh Visitor Center this season if Congress and the Obama administration fail to reach a budget deal by March 1.
In the last line of a story I wrote last winter about a couple who survived a deadly storm on Mount Rainier, I shared a quote from Josephine Johnson of Lacey about her boyfriend of eight months.
The National Park Service is preparing for an across-the-board, 5 percent budget cut should Congress and the Obama administration fail to meet a March 1 deadline to avoid sequestration.
Chris Lehnertz, Pacific West region director for the National Park Service, has issued a decision and a finding of no significant impact for the Nisqually to Paradise Road rehabilitation environmental assessment.
Mount Rainier National Park officials recently honored their Meadow Rovers of the Year.
Two snowboarders who spent two nights stranded on Mount Rainier in blizzard-like conditions were able to snowshoe off the mountain Tuesday with the help of a search and rescue team.
Rescue teams couldn’t reach two snowboarders Monday on Mount Rainier after the men had already spent one night there stranded by a storm that brought heavy snows to the Cascades.
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