Mount Saint Helens, Mount Adams, Mount Baker, and Glacier Peak are four of the active volcanoes in Washington state. The fifth, located less than 70 miles from Seattle, is Mount Rainier.

Distance from Seattle: 107 miles (2 1/2 hours) Mount Rainier is the tallest mountain in the state (14,410 feet) and this active volcano looms on the horizon of Seattle, begging to be explored.

Even though Mount Rainier has not had a "significant" eruption in the last 500 years, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) calls the volcano potentially the most dangerous one in the Cascade ...

The third sign Mount Rainier is a living volcano is the steam vents high on the upper slopes that emit hot gases and vapors. These emissions, often reported by climbers as smelling like rotten eggs, ...

The owner of Buena Vista Ski Area in Bemidji is accused of coercing her vulnerable aunt into transferring her a property valued at $1.5 million, according to charges filed this past week. Suzanne ...

What separates Mount Rainier from many other volcanoes are the glaciers and snowfields. With approximately 26 glaciers, the mountain is the most heavily glaciated peak across the continental U.S.

Magnetotelluric data from the state of Washington, USA, are used to image the fluid–melt phase of volcanic subduction in Mt Rainier, revealing fluid release at or near the top of the slab, and ...

Right down the road from Paradise is the Longmire Historic District, where James Longmire (the father of Mount Rainier tourism) and his family settled in the 1880s. The two old park headquarters ...

He said the last Mount Rainier eruption was about 1,000 years ago. Unlike Mount St. Helens, Rainier is not known to be particularly explosive, according to the National Geographic article.

Deputies responded to a report of an accident at the resort on Saturday at around 12:20 p.m., according to a statement released by the sheriff’s office. Lacayo was pronounced dead at 12:49 p.m.