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

    Mount Rainier

    National Park Washington

Images of the Flood of 2006

Broken roadway and landslide debris

Landslide wreaks havoc on SR123.

Debbie Hannevig

Slide Show Presentations
Rangers at Mount Rainier National Park have created several slide show presentations to explain the storm damage, recovery efforts, and long-term implications for park management.

Flood Damage
PDF(6.98 MB)
November 2006

The Big Picture
PDF(18.8 MB)
February 2007

Videos

After the Flood:
High Resolution (18.4 MB) or Low Resolution (2.33 MB)
Created November 10, 2006. Visit the the former site of Sunshine Point Campground with Superintendent Dave Uberuaga and Hollis Barnett, a long time local resident of the Nisqually Entrance area.

The Emergency Operations Center (1.21 MB)
Created November 11, 2006. Footage of the Longmire Emergency Operations Center, undermined by the Nisqually River.

Damage to Emergency Operations and Riverbed Debris (3.44 MB)
Created November 11, 2006. Close-up of the damage to the Emergency Operations Center and riverbed debris, as viewed from across the Nisqually River.

 
Photos
Choose an album below to view images of flood damage and recovery efforts throughout the park. High resolution versions are included for use in publications, and should be credited to the National Park Service.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  • Debris litters Highway 123 on the first day of the storm.
    Eastside Roads
    14 Photos
  • High winds tore the roof off the Gobbler's Knob Lookout and collapsed two of its walls.
    Fire Lookouts
    6 Photos
  • Flood waters rush down the Carbon River Road a day after the storm
    Carbon River Area
    24 Photos
  • Tahoma Creek rages at flood stage on the first day of the storm.
    Tahoma Creek and Westside Road
    8 Photos
  • Large swaths of the Carbon Glacier Trail collapsed into the Carbon River.
    Trails and Wilderness
    20 Photos
  • Flooding caused minor damage to loop A of the White River campground.
    White River
    7 Photos
  • The Nisqually River at full flood flows past the Emergency Operations Center at Longmire.
    Longmire
    36 Photos
  • Kautz Creek flows across the park road the day after the storm
    Kautz Creek
    26 Photos
  • An aerial view of the landslide across from Ohanapecosh Campground.
    Ohanapecosh
    11 Photos
  • Flooding by Tahoma Creek undermined the park road at its junction with the Westside Road.
    2006 Flood Nisqually Road
    18 Photos
  • Geologists set up survey equipment at Longmire to measure the effects of November's flood.
    Research
    8 Photos
  • Utility crews had to dig through 10 feet of snow to clean out the debris-filled water reservoir at Paradise.
    Paradise
    9 Photos
  • Pierce County crews work to rebuild the Nisqually Levee, along the border of Mount Rainier National Park.
    Sunshine Point
    37 Photos

Did You Know?

Magenta Paintbrush

The Paradise meadows were once home to a golf course, rope tows for skiers, an auto campground, and rows of tent cabins. All of these activities damaged the meadows, as does walking off-trail. Management practices have changed over the years, and we now protect and restore our precious subalpine meadows.