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

    Mount Rainier

    National Park Washington

Where To Eat

Inside the Park
Mount Rainier Guest Services operates two restaurants, two snack bars, and a small general store within the park. See Operating Hours and Seasons for current information about these facilities.

Longmire
The National Park Inn at Longmire includes a restaurant that is usually open year round. This is the only in-park dining facility that is open all year.

Adjacent to the National Park Inn, the Longmire General Store offers a limited selection of groceries and camping supplies, as well as gifts and souvenirs.

Paradise
The Paradise Inn includes a restaurant. Like the Inn, the restaurant is open only from May to early October. The Paradise Camp Deli, a cafeteria located in the Jackson Visitor Center at Paradise, is usually open weekends and holidays in the winter and daily from May through early October.

Sunrise
The Sunrise Day Lodge includes a snack bar. Sunrise Day Lodge is usually open from July through September.

More information about the dining facilities operated by Mount Rainier Guest Services is available here.

Outside the Park
Several restaurants are located in communities near the park. Click here for more information on these options.

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Did You Know?

The toe of Carbon Glacier appears dirty as it is covered in silt. Mount Rainier is in the background.

Carbon Glacier, on the north side of Mount Rainier, comes to the lowest elevation of any glacier in the lower 48 states at 3500 feet. It is also Mount Rainier's thickest glacier, one section being nearly 700 feet thick.