There are quite a few Mount Rainier waterfalls to check off your list during your visit, and some are easier to visit than ...

Situated between the Longmire and Paradise areas of Mount Rainier, they can be combined for a waterfall-heavy, hiking-light road trip. Your first stop is Christine Falls , which is about 4 miles ...

Inside the park in the Paradise area, there is a short hike that takes you to the lovely Myrtle Falls. This horsetail waterfall with a 72-foot cascade is a sight to behold on its own, but the view ...

Rangers in Mount Rainier National Park recovered the body of a female skier nearly three weeks after she appeared to have fallen 200 feet from a waterfall.

Terry Richard/The OregonianMyrtle Falls above Paradise at Mount Rainier. Look at these links for Paradise area Web cams at Mount Rainier National Park in Washington, the closest national park to ...

At the start of the 20th century, Mount Rainier boasted 30 glaciers — currently, the National Park Service says there are 28. Recent surveys by other scientists have concluded there may now only ...

Mount Rainier is an increasingly popular outdoors destination, NPS said, with visitation rising from just over 1.1 million in 2013 to about 1.6 million in 2022.

A skier disappeared nearly a month ago at Mt. Rainier. Park rangers make tragic discovery. The skier was last heard from May 18, before setting out to ski tour above Paradise, rangers said.

Mount Rainier smiles down on me, inviting me to playgrounds that take the shape of Paradise and Sunrise. I’m 16, up at the mountain with my best friends. We run up the dirt trails and slide down ...

Terry RichardA rare sunny winter day at Mount Rainier's Paradise. Aptly named when this photo was taken. Winter recreation provides only a tiny fraction of the annual visitation to Mount Rainier ...

MOUNT RAINIER -- Friday's opening of the new Henry M. Jackson Memorial Visitor Center completes a nearly $50 million, nine-year transformation of Paradise at Mount Rainier National Park.

Several of Mount Rainier’s glaciers are already gone, experts say, and others aren’t far behind. The News Tribune asked what that means for visitors.