Twelve Stops ... Twelve Views ...
Circle the mountain and see views you may never have seen before ...
The tour begins at Longmire's National Park Inn and travels counter-clockwise where it ends
at Iron Mountain ... Along the way read about
Mount Rainier's eruptive history, the creation of the National Park,
future volcanic activity and current scientific monitoring ...
To begin, click on the "Interactive Imagemap" and click on either the
white "Click Here to begin TOUR" box or the red circle "L" ... OR ... click on the "Text Menu
Button" and scroll that way ... You may also click on the
individual "Stops" if you so desire ... Enjoy
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Interactive Imagemap
-- [Map,31K,InlineGIF]
To begin, click on the white box which says "Click here to begin TOUR", or, click on the red
circle "L" (for Longmire). A page will appear with a moderately-sized image, and information
about the Stop. The moderately-sized image is linked to bring up a larger screen-size (around
300K) image. Each Stop also has buttons to take you to the
next Stop, the previous Stop, or to exit the Tour.
On the map, all red circled buttons are
interactve if you wish to just visit one Stop and skip the rest.
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Text Menu
One file only, with moderate-sized images, and all of the interesting information about each
site presented. Once viewing this page, clicking on the Stop location (the BIG names)
will take you into the formatted tour.
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Twelve Stops - Twelve Views
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Burroughs Mountain
-- Northeastern flanks with view of Steamboat Prow and the
Winthrop Glacier ... Learn about the Summit Lava Cone ... Read about Winthrop
Glacier
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Cowlitz Park
-- Eastern flanks with Little Tahoma Peak, Gibralter Rock,
and Columbia Crest ... Read about possible future volcanic activity at Mount Rainier
... Learn about Camp Muir
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Goat Island Mountain
-- Northeastern flanks with view of Emmons Glacier ... Read about Mount
Rainier's Catastrophic Mudflows 5,600 years ago and the 1963 rockfall from Little Tahoma
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Iron Mountain
-- Southwestern flanks with view of South Tahoma Glacier
and Point Success ... Read about the United Nations "Decade Volcanoes" ... Learn
about South Tahoma Glacier
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Longmire
-- Sunset view from near the National Park Inn ... Read about "The Mountain" and
James Longmire
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McClure Rock
-- Southern flanks showing the Nisqually Glacier, Gibralter Rock,
and a USGS crew ... Read about how the USGS monitors Mount Rainier ... Learn about
the Nisqually Glacier
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Old Desolate
-- Northern flanks with spectacular view of the Willis Wall and
Carbon Glacier ... Find out if Mount Rainier is the highest peak in the Cascade Range ... Learn
about Carbon Glacier
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Paradise
-- Evening sunset at what is quite possibly the busiest place
at Mount Rainier ... Read about the "Active Volcano" and the first climb to the
summit
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Ptarmigan Ridge
-- Northwestern flank with great view of the North Mowich Glacier ...
Learn about Mount Rainier River Drainages ... Read about Early Exploration
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Reflection Lake
-- Southern flanks at sunrise reflected in the lake ... Read about Captain
George Vancouver naming "the Mountain" in 1972 and the establishing of Mount Rainier
National Park in 1899
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St. Andrews Park
-- Southwestern flanks showing the Puyallup and Tahoma Glaciers ...
Learn about what formed Sunset Amphitheatre ... Read about Mount Rainier wildflowers
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Sunset Park
-- Northwestern flanks with good view of North Mowich Glacier,
and the three "high points" of Mount Rainier ... Learn about future volcanic
activity ... Read about Mount Rainier Earthquakes
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