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

    Mount Rainier

    National Park Washington

Interpretation and Education


Did You Know?

Visitor exploring the former Paradise Ice Caves.

For many years, the Paradise Ice Caves were a popular attraction at Mount Rainier.  Until the 1980s, visitors could explore passages within the Paradise Glacier which had formed due to seasonal melting of the ice.  By the early 1990s, climate change had melted away the last traces of the caves. More...