An airplane takes off from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Friday morning, with Mount Rainier as a backdrop, in a ...

Rising 14,410 feet above the ocean, Mount Rainier can be seen from Seattle on a clear day, only a couple of hours away. With its cone-shaped peak, it’s an active volcano and one of the most glaciated ...

Officials with Mount Rainier National Park will again limit the number of visitors to certain areas of the Washington park this year.

Reservations will once again be required to visit popular corners of Mount Rainier National Park this summer starting July 11 ...

In late April, a century-old bridge near Mount Rainier closed permanently due to safety issues, cutting off access to popular ...

Jackson Foundation, University of Washington and Walker Family Foundation, and its fiscal sponsor is the Seattle Foundation. The top of Mount Rainier is no longer the top of Mount Rainier.

For 2025, a popular location in Washington state sits at sixth place in the nation. The list currently includes some iconic ...

The fifth, located less than 70 miles from Seattle, is Mount Rainier. "It's totally at a state of background activity, so we're not worried about Mount Rainier right now,” said Alex Iezzi ...

If you don't have time to make the drive to Mount Rainier (which sits about two hours southeast of downtown Seattle), Mount Si provides a popular alternative. Sitting about 40 miles east of the ...

SEATTLE – The top of Mount Rainier is no longer the top of Mount Rainier. The frozen ice cap on top of Washington’s iconic mountain – recognized for generations as the tippy top – is ...