Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Oct 17 '04
Pros: Beautiful mountain scenery
Cons: Food service
Summary: Why We Went It was time again to visit "the kids." My son had some business in the Seattle area. He suggested while we were there, that we check out Mount Rainier National Park. How could I argue? Where We Stayed Daughter in law (DIL) ... read more
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Aug 23 '05
Pros: great scenery, great wildflowers, great hiking
Cons: crowds, but they are bearable
Summary: I have traveled all around the country to pursue my hiking passion. In August of 2005 my travels lead me to Mt. Rainier NP for the first time. I was not disappointed with my visit to this great national park. I drove to MRNP all the way from Buffalo, ... read more
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Jan 23 '03
Pros: Beautiful park! Awesome mountains and views
Cons: Weather is very moody
Summary: My wife and I climbed Mt. Rainier on July 21-22. When you come in to the park, you are taken up by the enormosity of Mt. Rainier. It doesn't look that tall (over 14,000 ft.), but instead it just looks big! If you plan to climb and summit like we did, ... read more
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Aug 11 '01
Pros: great views, lush Northwest nature, wildlife views
Cons: cold and cloudy
Summary: It is quite interesting that if you go to the Mt Rainier page on Epinions, there are no opinions not recommending it, at least so far. Assuming that everyone who wrote an opinion has visited the national monument, it would be safe to assume that everyone ... read more
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Jul 13 '01
Pros: Beautiful scenery, easy access, good camping facilities, wildlife abounding.
Cons: Not enough campsites, becomes crowded on weekends.
Summary: I have lived in Washington (state) since 1979, but a lot of that time was spent in Eastern Washington, around Spokane. I had seen pictures of Mt Rainier and thought I would like to visit it someday. After I got married, I ended up moving to Western ... read more
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Feb 23 '01
Pros: Absolutely beautiful
Cons: The weather can be unpredictable and treacherous.
Summary: It has been over a quarter of a century since I first set eyes on her and yet that memory is as vivid today as the day it happened. It was early August in 1973 and I was 18 years old, fresh out of high school and bound for college. I had left East ... read more
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Dec 15 '00
Pros: peaceful drive, a lot to see
Cons: none that I can think of
Summary: My daughter and I played hooky from school one spring day to make the trip with my mom. We packed some sodas and sandwiches, and made sure we were prepared with cameras and film.
I'm always impressed with the forests of the Cascades. They ... read more
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Sep 07 '00
Pros: Magnificent, Indescribable
Cons: Crowded
Summary: This past summer I visited Colorado, Utah, Yellowstone, the Tetons and Yosemite. Nowhere did I see a more magnificent mountain than Mt. Rainier. Driving out of Seattle you can see it towering over the land and you think it's not real, just a strange ... read more
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Jul 24 '00
Pros: Awesome Glaciers
Cons: Snow at higher elevations so dangerous and wet if you don't wear proper clothes and shoes. But if you're prepared, this is a pro.
Summary: The first time I saw Mt Ranier was from my airplane. We sat on the right on our flight up from California and flew right by Mt Hood, Mt. St Helens and Mt Ranier. It was awesome - a great way to start our trip to Mt. Ranier and we were glad we got to the ... read more
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Jul 22 '00
Pros: GORGEOUS Northwest scenery
Cons: Price of everything
Summary: Know where the first recorded UFO sighting was? Mt. Rainier some 50 years ago. Hey! This is Bigfoot territory-we have it all!!!
I have lived in the shadow of Mt. Rainier for the past 21 years, since I was 10 years old. I have seen it in ... read more
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Jul 20 '00
Pros: The most famous Washington landmark
Cons: crowds, long drive
Summary: I wanted to puke. Here I was, 9,000 feet up the northern shoulder of majestic Mt. Rainier, Washington, and I felt like spilling my cookies all over the nice, clean snow. Some climber!
Our group of ten Air Force members were on a climb, ... read more
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Jul 12 '00
Pros: Spectacular Views, Glaciers, Great Hiking, Wildlife, Giant Trees
Cons: Not enough Camping Areas, Slow Winding Roads, Crowded
Summary: Mt. Rainier National Park is a place that I hold dear and a place that everyone should visit. There is no site quite like the one of this soaring 14,411 ft. buttress of a peak. It is especially impressive when viewed from outside the park, most notably ... read more
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Jul 09 '00
Pros: breathtaking!
Cons: none
Summary: If you are looking for a place to go while you are in the Washington state area, I would definitely recommend Mount Rainier!! We just went on a family trip to Washington and we thoroughly enjoyed our trip to Mount Rainier. The great thing is that you ... read more
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Jun 27 '00
Pros: A classic climb
Cons: Not particularly fun...
Summary: What possesses a person to spend 3-4 days trudging up endless slopes of snow and ice, shivering in freezing temperatures at night while being baked by UV rays during the day, just to reach a place where it's hard to breathe and the winds are trying to ... read more
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Jun 17 '00
Pros: breath-taking views
Cons: We didnt stay the night there!
Summary: Mount Rainier is always there, wherever you go in Western Washington. It's magestic peaks can be seen from all over. We spent two years out here before we finally got the time together to make the trip to see it firsthand.
The drive from ... read more
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