Paradise Inn Wayside

Mount Rainier National Park Waysides

This wayside is part of the Mount Rainier National Park wayside series. Explore this and other waysides online in the Mount Rainier Virtual Tour.

 

The Paradise Inn Wayside is a small wayside in front of the historic Paradise Inn.

NPS Photo

Wayside Title: Paradise Inn

Wayside Main Text
Advertised as a place "where the flowers and the glaciers meet," Paradise Inn opened on July 1, 1917. Here tourists arrived wearing long skirts and woolen traveling suits, "seeking a renewal of spirit in the vast world out-of-doors."

Today, entering the grand lobby or the dining room with the large timbers and massive stone fireplace is like stepping back into an earlier era. The rustic style of architecture is typical of early National Park Service buildings. Now designated a National Historic Landmark, the Inn is show here in 1920.

 

Paradise Inn Wayside panel.

NPS Photo

Wayside Panel Description
A single black-and-white historic photo fills the frame of a small, vertically-oriented wayside panel. The wayside text overlays the top of the photo above a large wooden building with a steeply-angled roof, gabled windows, and a stone fireplace. Early model historic cars are parked in a row in front of the building with men standing next to them. A small box in the lower left corner of the wayside panel reads "User Fee Project. Your Fee Dollars at Work. Entrance fees were used to produce this exhibit".