MOUNT RAINIER Circular of General Information 1936

ACCOMMODATIONS AND EXPENSES

Accommodations of every type are available in Mount Rainier National Park throughout the summer season, and on a modified schedule in winter. Service at Longmire, Paradise Valley, and Yakima Park is furnished by the Rainier National Park Co., of Tacoma, Wash., and at Ohanapecosh Hot Springs by the Bridge Clinic, of Tacoma, Wash.

SUMMER SEASON

At Longmire the National Park Inn offers rooms at a cost to one person of $2.50 a day, without bath, and $3.50 with bath. A room in the cottage annex costs $2 for one person. A 10 percent discount on rooms is allowed for a 3-day stay, and 15 percent for 1 week or longer. Meals are available at the cafeteria in National Park Inn. Three-room housekeeping cabins for from 1 to 4 persons, without linen or maid service, may be rented for $3 a day and $19 a week; additional persons, 75 cents each. With linen and maid service, the rates are $5 a day and $30.50 a week; additional persons, $1 each per day.

Housekeeping cabins at Paradise Valley. Rainier National Park Co. photo.

At Paradise Valley all types of facilities, from cabins to modern hotel accommodations are available. At Paradise Inn an attractive structure of weathered cedar logs with great stone fireplaces, American-plan rates range from $6 each for 2 or more persons in a room without bath, to $8 for 1 person in room, with bath. Table d'hote meals: Breakfast, $1; luncheon, $1.25; dinner, $1.50.

Paradise Lodge near the inn cares for visitors desiring more moderately priced accommodations, and there is cafeteria meal service. Rooms for one person, $3 without bath; $4 with bath. A 10 percent discount on rooms is allowed for a 3-day stay, and 15 percent for a week or more. Housekeeping cabins of both the 3-room and 1-room type are available. The former cost the same as at Longmire, and rates for the 1-room units, without bed linen or maid service, are $1.50 a day; $4 for 3 days; and $9.50 a week for not more than 2 persons. With linen and maid service, the rates are $2.50 a day; $6.75 for 3 days; and $15.25 a week; additional persons, $1 each per day. One-room units, with bed linen but without maid service, are proportionately lower.

At Yakima Park there are 215 housekeeping cabins available at the same rates as those charged at Longmire and Paradise Valley. Cafeteria service is available, and campers' supplies may be purchased locally.

Sunrise Lodge and housekeeping cabins, Yakima Park. Grant photograph.

WINTER SEASON

A wide range of services and accommodations is available throughout the winter season in Paradise Valley, the center of skiing and other winter sports activities.

Paradise Inn offers on week days and holidays complete first-class service similar to that available during the summer season. Week-end and holiday service is American plan at $6 each per day double and $7 per day single, for a room with bath, and $5 each double and $6 single per day for a room without bath. Mid-week service is European plan, with meals a la carte at the Paradise Inn dining room and rooms from $2.25 each per day for two or more in a room without bath to a single room with bath at $4 per day. Table d'hote single meals, week-ends and holidays, are $1 each.

Winter sports enthusiasts view Mount Rainier. Rainier National Park Co. photo.

At Paradise Lodge rooms with or without bath are on the European plan, ranging from $2.25 each per day for two or more persons in a room without bath to $4 per day for a single room with bath. Cafeteria service is available at the Lodge dining room on week-ends and holidays only. Mid-week meal service for Lodge guests is available at the Paradise Inn dining room.

One of the most popular methods of securing accommodations in Paradise Valley during the period from December 14 to May 1 is by lease. A one-room cabin with a capacity of two people may be leased for this period for $40 and a three-room cabin with a capacity of four people may be leased for $80. Rooms in Paradise Lodge may be leased at rates ranging from four people in a room without bath for $90 to a room with bath at $150 for four people. Rooms in Paradise Inn may also be leased for this period at reasonable rates.

Rooms are offered at Longmire on the European plan at rates between $2.50 per day, single, room without bath, to $3.50 per day for a single room with bath, with additional charges of $1 per day for each additional person for rooms without bath and $1.50 per day for each additional person in rooms with bath. Rooms in cottages are $2 per day single with $1 a day for each additional person. Housekeeping accommodations are also available at Longmire. Meal service is cafeteria style. Dormitory accommodations also may be procured. Skis, snowshoes, and other necessary equipment are available at reasonable rates.

Detailed rates for winter accommodations and services are contained in a folder on winter sports in Mount Rainier National Park. This folder may be obtained also from the Seattle or Tacoma offices of the Rainier National Park Co.

Community house at Paradise Valley. Grant photo.

OHANAPECOSH HOT SPRINGS

Lodges, cabins, and other facilities are provided at Ohanapecosh Hot Springs by the Bridge Clinic, 744 Market Street, Tacoma, Wash. (Summer address, Ohanapecosh Lodge, Packwood, Wash.)

Accommodations may be obtained at Ohanapecosh Lodge, an inviting log structure, at $4 a day per person, including meals, and $17.50 a week. Breakfast and luncheon are 75 cents each and dinner $1. Housekeeping cabins and tents may be rented at prices varying, according to the number in the party, from $1.25 a day to $15 a week. These units are furnished with beds, tables, chairs, stoves, and wood.

During the winter season, housekeeping cabins are operated at prices prevailing during the summer, but food supplies are not available.

Mineral Baths.—Modern bathing facilities are available all year under supervision of a trained attendant for those desiring to use the hot waters.

HORSEBACK TRIPS AND GUIDE SERVICE

The Rainier National Park Co. maintains saddle- and pack-horse service suited to park-trail conditions. Saddle horses and equipment cost $5 for from 5 to 8 hours' service. Pack horses on the same basis are $5. A saddle horse, with guide service, is $7.50. Several short trips are scheduled at $3, and arrangements may be made with the company for any type of trip desired, including the Wonderland Trail trip, encircling Mount Rainier, a distance of approximately 100 miles. The cost of this splendid trip ranges from $16 a day for 1 person to $10 a day each for 7 or more persons. This takes care of all expenses including pack and guide service.

Competent guides may be engaged for special trips through the park, including mountain climbs. From Paradise Valley, (where there is a guide and auditorium building in which illustrated talks about the parks are given), guide service for the summit climb ranges in cost from $25 for 1 person to $10 each for a party of 4 or more.

TRANSPORTATION

TO THE PARK

The Rainier National Park Co. operates auto-stages from Seattle and Tacoma, via Nisqually entrance, to Longmire throughout the year. Stages are operated from Tacoma and Seattle through Longmire to Paradise Valley depending upon snow conditions in the spring, throughout the summer, and until the road is closed by snow at Narada Falls in the winter.

Contingent upon snow conditions in the spring and ending on Labor Day stages are operated into Yakima Park, via White River entrance, from Tacoma, Seattle, and Yakima. After Labor Day and until Yakima Park is closed by snow, touring cars with driver may be rented by private parties for transportation into Yakima Park from Seattle and Tacoma. No transportation service is available from the city of Yakima after Labor Day.

From June 15 to September 15 transportation from Tacoma to Longmire one-way is $1.90; from September 16 to June 14 one-way from Tacoma to Longmire costs $3.40. Rates between other points are proportionate. All-year service from Ashford to Nisqually entrance, Longmire, and Narada Falls is available. From Ashford to Paradise Valley transportation service is maintained, except during the winter when the road is closed at Narada Falls.

WITHIN THE PARK

"Between station" service is made in either direction on regularly scheduled rates. Touring cars for parties of six, or busses for more, may be obtained for private parties at the regular rates for bus service, plus a car charge of $2.50 an hour. Touring cars may be rented for short trips in the vicinity of the hotels and lodges at $6 an hour.

GASOLINE SERVICE

A gasoline service station is operated at Longmire throughout the year. At Yakima Park a service station is open during the summer season. Emergency gasoline is obtainable at Paradise Valley. Motor supplies may be purchased at Longmire and Yakima Park.

TABLES OF DISTANCES

NISQUALLY ROAD, PARK ENTRANCE TO PARADISE VALLEY—20 MILES

WEST SIDE HIGHWAY, NISQUALLY ROAD TO NORTH PUYALLUP RIVER—15.1 MILES

WHITE RIVER ROAD, JUNCTION WITH STATE HIGHWAY TO YAKIMA PARK—15.6 MILES

CARBON RIVER ROAD, PARK ENTRANCE TO SIX MILE CREEK—6 MILES

PARADISE TRAIL FROM LONGMIRE SPRINGS TO PARADISE VALLEY—5.9 MILES

WONDERLAND TRAIL, PARADISE VALLEY TO YAKIMA PARK—29 MILES

PARADISE VALLEY TO NICKEL CREEK—9 MILES

EAST SIDE TRAIL, OHANAPECOSH HOT SPRINGS TO WHITE RIVER ROAD—17 MILES

WONDERLAND TRAIL, YAKIMA PARK TO CARBON RIVER ROAD—15 MILES

WONDERLAND TRAIL, CARBON RIVER TO LONGMIRE—46.5 MILES

END OF CARBON ROAD TO MOWICH LAKE—12 MILES

PRINCIPAL POINTS OF INTEREST

REACHED FROM PARADISE VALLEY

[Best reached on foot]

REACHED FROM YAKIMA PARK

REACHED FROM LONGMIRE

REACHED FROM OHANAPECOSH

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______. The Book of the National Parks. 1926. 444 pp., 74 illustrations, 14 maps and diagrams. Mount Rainier on pp. 156-183.

Wild flowers in contrast to fields of ice.