President Trump’s zest for rapidly shrinking the government is triggering anxiety about conservation priorities that have been embedded for more than five decades in the country’s national parks and wildlife refuges.
Public input is being sought on a plan by the National Park Service and Washington State Transportation Department on a proposed project within the Mount Rainier Wilderness that seeks to reduce the risk of flooding and erosion to a segment of State Route 410 (SR 410) adjacent to the White River in Mount Rainier National Park.
This first month of the 2025 New Year is all about throwback in the National Park System, with a little added trivia.
Did you know that when Paradise Inn opened for business in 1917 up at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State, there were tent cabins there, too? According to Mount Rainier Guest Service's history page for the Paradise Inn:
Happy New Year! Continuing a tradition begun in 2015, Traveler contributing photographer Rebecca Latson discusses her 11 favorite shots captured during her 2024 national park visits. She tells the why, the where, and the how for each image.
The privatization of park lodges — occurring since the National Park Service’s inception — has made stays inside the parks unaffordable for many visitors.
It’s almost a wrap for 2024, and the year provided plenty of trips and photo ops for contributing photographer Rebecca Latson, who provides a recap of 12 months of park photography articles published in the Traveler. How many of these have you read?
Because of very strong solar storms, the Aurora Borealis was showing up in national parks further south than usually seen, such as at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State. The human eye cannot always detect an aurora in dim light and a camera with a very slow shutter speed and a wide aperture often captures what the naked eye does not see.
Here to test your national parks knowledge is the last National Parks Traveler quiz and trivia piece for 2024. How much do you really know about units of the National Park System? Perhaps more than you realize. Try to answer these questions before looking at their answers at the bottom of this piece. You might learn something new!
Mount Rainier National Park in Washington State is filled with superlatives, and you can capture those superlatives with your camera, be it tricked-out SLR, easy-to-tote point-and-shoot, or the camera in your smartphone.