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Mount Rainier National Park
Administrative History

WONDERLAND: 

An Administrative History of

Mount Rainier National Park by   Theodore Catton  May 1996

Mount Rainier National Park

Asahel Curtis photograph of Rainier Park Company President Henry Rhodes (front), Mount Rainier National Park Superintendent O.A. Tomlinson (middle), and National Park Service Director Stephen Mather (right), against a backdrop of Mount Rainier, 1928.
(Photo courtesy of the Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma, Washington)

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Visitor exploring the former Paradise Ice Caves.  

Did You Know?
For many years, the Paradise Ice Caves were a popular attraction at Mount Rainier. Until the 1980s, visitors could explore passages within the Paradise Glacier which had formed due to seasonal melting of the ice. By the early 1990s, climate change had melted away the last traces of the caves.
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Last Updated: April 15, 2008 at 17:17 EST