When Will Pattiz learned that Yosemite was eliminating its timed-entry system, he experienced a flashback to 2023. That year, the California national park had halted the reservation system it had ...

Timed entry at Mount Rainier National Park was implemented as a pilot program in 2024 after seeing an approximate 40% increase in visitation over a decade. Overcrowding led to lon ...

Covered walkways provide shelter from Washington’s notorious precipitation, a practical feature that transforms rainy days from shopping deterrents to ideal opportunities for retail therapy.

The largest cranes on the west coast arrive at the Port of Tacoma on Tuesday, March 5, 2019. Tony Overman toverman@theolympian.com I see Mount Rainier a lot — on license plates, logos, stickers, etc.

Tragedy has struck on two popular trails in Washington state, with four people dying in separate back-to-back accidents, including one at Mount Rainier National Park. Two longtime friends in their 70s ...

Following in Yosemite’s footsteps, another major national park on the West Coast is dropping a method for crowd management. Washington’s Mount Rainier National Park will not require timed-entry ...

Two people died while climbing at Mount Rainier National Park, according to the National Park Service. Search-and-rescue crews recovered the bodies of the two climbers from the Wilson Glacier area of ...

Mount Rainier National Park will not be using its new timed reservation system for the coming summer. The National Park Service posted on Jan. 20 to the Mount Rainier information webpage that “Mount ...

I Don’t Ski, but the Snow Tubing in Washington Is Incredible As a born-and-raised Washingtonian, I never quite appreciated how special this state truly is while I was growing up here. I just assumed ...

The top of the mountain is coming down. Five different U.S. mountains, including Mount Rainier, are experiencing ice loss at their peaks, bringing down their highest elevations. And the problem is ...