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Where Will You Explore Winter In The National Park System?

Winter, the season with cold, snow, short days and long nights, can be a challenging season to explore the National Park System. Yet it also holds surprises that reveal themselves in shimmering lights darting across the night sky, in tracks of what passed the night before across the snowscape, and in congregations of wildlife.

I Spy With My Little Eye The Paradise Area From Afar, Mount Rainier National Park

A distant view of the Paradise area, including parking lot and buildings, along with Nisqually Glacier as seen from the Pinnacle Peak Trail, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington

Pinnacle Peak Trail is a popular hike in Mount Rainier National Park, with a panoramic view of the distant Paradise area and Nisqually Glacier. The trailhead is accessed across the road from Reflection Lakes parking. 

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I Spy With My Little Eye The Paradise Area From Afar

Mount Rainier, Not A Place To Take Lightly

Mount Rainier can be deadly, but death is hardly what prevents most from succeeding up the glacier-shrouded volcano. Although climbing carries inherent risks, it’s not how most deaths in the sprawling Mount Rainier National Park occur. Of the 425 fatalities recorded over more than a century -- 1897 to 2017 -- about 90 were summit climbers, in addition to 35 or so climbing accidents that were non-summit related, park data shows. The rest of the deaths run the gamut through the park.

National Parks Quiz And Trivia #18 – The Haunted Edition

National Park Service units are not immune from ghosts and ghouls and things that go bump in the night. In honor of Halloween, here’s a quiz and trivia piece that’s all about those ghosty ghoulies and their associated protected lands. You might learn a little something as your spine tingles and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. BOO!!

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