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Heavy Visitation Expected Throughout The Summer At Mount Rainier National Park

With visitation already heavy, Mount Rainier National Park staff are predicting that it will continue throughout the summer and produce long wait times at entrance stations, heavy road traffic and congested parking lots. As a result, the park is encouraging visitors to come on weekdays and arrive in the early morning or late afternoon to avoid long waits at entrances and more easily find a parking spot. They're even suggesting stops outside the park.

Three National Parks, Three Medical Emergencies, One Helicopter = Three Rescues In One Day

There are many days at Mount Rainier National Park when the contracted helicopter they pay $2,900 a day to be available sits idle, glinting in the sunshine. But then there are days like Sunday, when the whirlybird crisscrossed Washington state to perform rescues at three national parks.

Photography In The National Parks: Capturing Texture, Pattern, And Color In Your Compositions

Contributing photographer Rebecca Latson wants you to focus your powers of observation on the properties of texture, pattern, and color that you see in your viewfinder. Rebecca offers five techniques that she uses when photographing compositions focusing on any and all of these properties found within a national park.

$1 Million Gift Funds Valuable Projects At Mount Rainier, North Cascades, And Olympic National Parks

As beautiful as Mount Rainier National Park is during warm, calm weather, it can be extremely dangerous when a snowstorm rolls in with rangers or researchers on the mountain or in its forests without cell coverage. Thanks to a seven-figure gift from the estate of a Washington woman, it soon will be easier to track those individuals even at the height of a storm.

Put Washington's National Park Fund's Spring Dinner On Your Calendar

National park friends groups are playing an increasingly important role in support their favorite parks these days. Instead of just providing "the icing" on the parks, more groups are being asked to help support operational needs, such as trail improvements. That's why you should plan to attend Washington's National Park Fund's Spring Dinner and Auction in April.

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