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 ...

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 ...

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 new seismic station was installed in August 2025 on Burley Mountain, near Mount Rainier. After a swarm of earthquakes around Mount Rainier in July of 2025, the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network ...

Seismometers at Mount Rainier recorded a 72-hour burst of underground vibrations starting November 15, 2025, around 5 a.m. ET, relevant to the Seattle–Tacoma area. The Mount Rainier tremor follows ...

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 ...

The road to Paradise has ostensibly gotten easier to climb. After three consecutive seasons of limited openings at the gate to the state’s highest-elevation road-accessible winter wonderland, Mount ...

Mount Etna has been gearing up for 2026 with a bang — or, actually, several of them — with days of explosive activity, bringing lava fountains, loud booms and eruption columns that launched dark ...

Mount Rainier, along with four other ice-capped mountains in the contiguous U.S., has shrunk since about 1980, said a study published in the journal Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research. Four of the ...

Washington lawmakers introduced legislation Tuesday aimed at restoring access to Mount Rainier National Park via the Fairfax Bridge “as soon as possible,” eight months after the state shut down the ...