Enjoy the sunset glow over Mount Rainier on Feb. 5, as seen from KING 5's Columbia Tower camera.

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Following in Yosemite’s footsteps, another major national park on the West Coast is dropping a method for crowd management. Washington’s Mount Rainier National Park will not require timed-entry ...

A snowshoer pauses on the way up Panorama Point to look back at the Tattoosh mountain range in Mount Rainier National Park. Jon Abbott The search for two missing climbers ended in tragedy Tuesday ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A snowshoer pauses on the way up Panorama Point to look back at the Tattoosh mountain range in Mount Rainier National Park. (Jon ...

Search and rescue personnel have recovered the bodies of two climbers on Mount Rainier. Neither their identities nor the cause of death have been made publicly available at the time of this ...

SUNRISE, Wash. — Search and rescue crews found the two climbers reported missing in the backcountry of Mount Rainier National Park near Wilson Glacier earlier this week, according to the National Park ...

Visitors heading to Mount Rainier National Park in 2026 will no longer need a timed entry reservati on to enter during peak summer hours, according to an announcement made last week. “The park will ...

The search for two missing climbers ended in tragedy Tuesday after both were found dead at around 9,600 feet in elevation at Mount Rainier. They are far from the first to perish at the national park.

Park rangers "initiated an inquiry" on Jan. 18, after identifying overdue climbing permits Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with ...

Studying tree rings helped scientists pinpoint when Mount Rainier last sent a lahar down its steep slopes, which could help planners anticipate future mudflows. By Katherine Kornei Katherine Kornei ...

An outpouring of magma isn’t the biggest risk to people downhill from Mount Rainier. The active volcano’s greatest danger comes from lahars — amalgams of mud, rock and water that are as dense as wet ...