Alt Text Map of Mount Rainier National Park in Washington. The park’s shape is roughly square and is shaded in green, while the surrounding area is colored beige. At the center, Mount Rainier is surrounded by twenty-four glaciers, which are shown in white. The glaciers create a starburst shape around Mount Rainier. Extended Description There are four named entrances, one near each corner of the park. This description will begin in the top left corner and describe the sites and features by quadrants in clockwise order before returning to Mount Rainier and its glaciers. Northwest Quadrant A small, isolated unit of the park lies just west of the Carbon River Entrance at the northwest corner and includes the Carbon River Ranger Station. The Carbon River road travels through the isolated park unit and continues off the top left corner of the map “To Wilkeson, 13 miles (21 kilometers) from Carbon River Entrance.” Text for the area reads, “Get Climbing and Wilderness Camping Permits for the northwest area of the park at Carbon River Ranger Station. The Carbon River Entrance includes an interpretive trail, picnic area, restrooms, and the Carbon River Rainforest Trail. A note at the entrance reads, “Road closed to vehicles beyond this point. Road open to foot and bicycle traffic. Bikers must remain on the main road.” The Carbon River Trail, a former road, continues into the park from the entrance. It passes a picnic area and Ipsut Creek, also with a picnic area as well as a wilderness patrol cabin before meeting the Wonderland Trail. The Wonderland Trail, which circumnavigates the park, leads southwest to Ipsut Pass, where a spur reaches west to Tolmie Peak, which is a fire lookout at Eunice Lake at an elevation of 5,939 feet (1,810 meters). The Wonderland Trail continues south to Mowich Lake, which has a wilderness ranger station, campground, picnic area, and restroom. State Route 165 is open seasonally and winds from Mowich Lake to the western border of the park, passing an entrance fee machine and restrooms. The Wonderland Trail continues south to a wilderness patrol cabin at Golden Lakes, and south from there to ultimately create a circuit across the park. The Wonderland Trail also travels east from near Ipsut Creek to pass the Chenius Mountain, Mother Mountain, Northern Crags, Moraine Park, and a wilderness patrol cabin near Mystic Lake. Other trails branch off the Wonderland Trail, including one that leads to a wilderness patrol cabin near Redstone Peak. Northeast Quadrant Mather Memorial Parkway, State Route 410, which is open seasonally, travels south from the northeast corner of the park. The Parkway forks to the east at Cayuse Pass, 4694 feet (1431 meters), before winding in a tight zigzag past a picnic area and restrooms near Tipsoo Lake before exiting the park. North of Cayuse Pass, a park road branches off Mather Memorial Parkway to veer west to the White River Entrance, Wilderness Information Center, which has restrooms and a ranger station. The road continues west to White River, which has a ranger station, campground, and picnic area. Shortly before this, another road branching north across Sunrise Ridge is open July to early October, and it ends at the Sunrise Visitor Center. The Sunrise Day Lodge there is open July to late September, and amenities at this location include a ranger station, picnic area, restaurant, interpretive trail, and restrooms. Trails leading from the visitor center reach to Mount Fremont Lookout, a fire lookout at 7,181 feet (2,189 meters) to the west and Emmons Vista just south. Southeast Quadrant State Route 123 continues from State Route 410 to drop south to the southern border and out of the park. It passes near the Stevens Canyon Entrance in the southeast corner and then continues through the Ohanapecosh Visitor Center, which is open seasonally and has an interpretive trail, picnic area, and restroom. A campground is located across the road from the Ohanapecosh Visitor Center. Stevens Canyon Road, open seasonally, branches from State Route 123 north of the Ohanapecosh Visitor Center. Stevens Canyon Road heads eastward, and passes restrooms, Grove of the Patriarchs Trail, an interpretive trail, before climbing over Backbone Ridge and continuing to Box Canyon, which has an interpretive trail and restrooms. Stevens Canyon Road continues west, where it reaches the Henry M. Jackson Memorial Visitor Center at the bottom center of the park. The visitor center has seasonally limited services including restrooms, an interpretive trail, ranger station, lodging, and restaurant. The Paradise Inn is also here, and additional park roads reach a picnic area and restrooms and leads to trails around Paradise Park that reach Panorama Point, which has restrooms and is at an elevation of 6,800 feet (2,074 meters). Southwest Quadrant Stevens Canyon Road continues west and into the lower left quadrant of the park past a picnic area and Cougar Rock, which has a ranger station, campground, and restrooms. The next cluster of sites is slightly southwest at Wilderness Information Center, which has a ranger station and picnic area, Trail of the Shadows with an interpretive trail, Longmire Museum, and National Park Inn, which is open year-round and has a restaurant, lodging, groceries, and a restroom. The final leg of Stevens Canyon Road continues west past the Twin First Trail; Kautz Creek Trail with an interpretive trail; and a site with restrooms and a picnic area before arriving at the Nisqually Entrance, which has a ranger station at the southwest corner of the park. Mount Rainier National Park and Glaciers Columbia Crest is highest point on Mount Rainier with an elevation of 14,410 feet (4,392 meters). Prominent points near the summit are, in clockwise order, Russell Cliff, Steamboat Prow at 9,702 feet (2,958 meters), The Wedge, Camp Schurman, which has a wilderness patrol cabin at 9,510 feet (2,899 feet), Disappointment Cleaver, and Little Tahoma Peak at 11,138 feet (3,395 meters) between noon and three o’clock. The southeast aspect includes Gibraltar Rock at 12,660 feet (3,859 meters), Camp Muir with a wilderness patrol cabin at 10,188 feet (3,105 meters), Anvil Rock at 9,584 (2,921 meters), and Cowlitz Cleaver. Southwest aspects include Wapowety Cleaver, Point Success at 14,153 feet (4,315 meters), Success Cleaver, Payallup Cleaver, and St. Andrews Rock at 11,595 feet (3,534 meters). Northwest aspects include Sunset Amphitheater, Liberty Cap at 14,122 feet (4,304 meters), Liberty Ridge, and Willis Wall. Repeating the process with the glaciers, Winthrop Glacier is closest to twelve o’clock. Continuing down the east side are Inter, Emmons, Fryingpan, Ohanapecosh, Whitman, Ingraham, Cowliz, Paradise, Muir, and Nisqually glaciers. Up the west side are Wilson, Van Trump, Kautz, Success, Pyramid, South Tahoma, Tahoma, Puyallup, South Mowich, Edmunds, North Mowich, Russell, and Carbon glaciers. Outside the Park Clearwater Wilderness is contained with the much larger Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, which spans the northern edge of Mount Rainier National Park. Down the right edge of the map are Norse Peak Wilderness, Wenatchee National Forest, and William O. Douglas Wilderness. The Pacific Crest Trail follows most of the eastern edge of the park before continuing off in the right top and bottom corners. Along the southern border are Gifford Pinchot National Forest and Tatoosh Wilderness. Big Creek, US Forest Service, which is open from late May to September and has a campground, is just off the southwest corner of the park, accessible via County Road 52. Glacier View Wilderness hugs the western border near the Nisqually Entrance. Legend A legend in the lower left corner of the map reads as follows: Dashed purple line for Pacific Crest Trail, Dashed green line for Wonderland Trail, Dashed gray line for Other hiking trail, Dashed gray line with a bicycle icon for Former road open to bikers and hikers, Gray line with a gray semicircle for Unpaved road and pullout, and Red line with a red semicircle for Paved road and pullout. Text that follows reads, “Winter road closures: All park roads are CLOSED IN WINTER except the road between Nisqually Entrance and Paradise. (The section between Longmire and Paradise has variable access. Check the website for more information.)” Three columns of symbols represent interpretive trail, ranger station, wilderness patrol cabin, campground, lodging, restaurant, picnic area, groceries, restrooms, and fire lookout. A scale in the lower right corner measures distances of 2 kilometers and 2 miles.