While there are many, many amazing hikes in Mount Rainier National Park, few of them offer as good a payoff-to-effort ratio as the Naches Peak Loop trail. Located at Chinook Pass just east of Mount Rainier, this hike gives you a trio of amazing characteristics: blankets of multicolored wildflowers in the summer, spectacular views of…
Tucked away in the eastern foothills of the Cascade range near the town of Leavenworth, you’ll find a slice of paradise. At least if you’re mountain people like we are. We’ll take an alpine lake backed by a rocky peak over a wide sandy beach any day of the week. The Colchuck Lake trail takes…
If you’ve stumbled upon this guide, you’re probably looking for the best hikes at Mount Rainier. We have great news for you – you’re in the right place! We make regular trips to Mount Rainier National Park from our home base of Portland, Oregon, and spend at least a couple of weekends every summer and…
On our latest trip to Mount Rainier National Park, it was our goal to make it to the big four waterfalls in the Paradise area – Narada, Christine, Myrtle, and Comet Falls. By the evening of our last full day, we had checked off the first three, and we were planning on getting up at…
When we think about our favorite hikes we’ve ever done, a few trails immediately spring to mind. One of those trails is the Skyline Loop Trail in Mount Rainier National Park, which we’ve now hiked multiple times spanning across different years. It is, without a doubt, at the top of our list of the best…
Despite growing up in Washington State in the Seattle area, I (Matt here!) had never spent much time exploring the hiking trails in my home state until the past several years when Alysha completed her goal of turning me into “Mountain Matt”. If you had asked me a few years ago, I never would have…