• Mount Rainier peeks through clouds, viewed across subalpine wildflowers and glacial moraine.

    Mount Rainier

    National Park Washington

Sunshine Point

  • Pierce County crews work to rebuild the Nisqually Levee, along the border of Mount Rainier National Park.
    Sunshine Point
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Did You Know?

Floyd Schmoe, Mount Rainier's first full-time Park Naturalist.

Floyd Schmoe was Mount Rainier's first full-time Park Naturalist.  In 1923, he launched the park's "Nature Notes", a series of writings on various park-related topics.  There are hundreds of editions of the notes in the park's collection, all of which are accessible through the Mount Rainier History & Culture webpage: More...