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only much of the Cascade Range but very probably a large part of the 

 Pacific Northwest. Today, with their fires quenched, they are great ice- 

 covered peaks, landmarks dominating the forests, plains, and cities of the 

 region. Mount Rainier can be seen for 150 miles in clear weather. It rises 

 more than two miles above the mountains at its base, unique, alone, unchal 

 lenged, comparable only to Fujiyama, Japan's great volcanic peak. Mount 

 Rainier once rose to a sharp peak, according to geologists, attaining a height 

 then of some sixteen thousand feet; but some ancient catastrophe caused this 

 peak to be blown or broken off. 



The national park of which Mount Rainier is the center and the main 

 feature is about eighteen miles square. It includes some of the finest forest 

 stands of the Northwest, beautiful mountain meadows, waterfalls, and is a 

 great sanctuary for wild game. Paradise Valley, lying between the Paradise 

 and Nisqually glaciers, is the great gathering place for both summer and 

 winter sports, winter sports being enjoyed on the mountain slopes during the 

 summer time as well. From this valley a number of trails lead to the glaciers, 

 ice caves, and forests, and to other valleys. Here one may study the action 

 of the glaciers, see them move slowly, a few inches per day, toward their 

 destination. Here one may find perhaps the greatest collection of alpine 

 flowers in any of the national parks, magic carpets of blossoms, miles in 

 extent, vivid in color, some of them so impatient for the sunshine that they 

 push their heads through the melting snows. 



Mount Rainier National Park is reached by the Milwaukee Railroad to 

 Ash ford, or by motor stage from both Tacoma and Seattle, a half -day ride 

 from either city. Hotels are operated the year around at Longmire Springs 

 and in summer at Paradise Valley, near the snowline. Motorists will find a 

 highway leading from Seattle and Tacoma to Longmire Springs and Paradise 

 Valley, and good roads extending to the two northern corners of the park as 

 well. Campsites are awaiting them along these roads, but hotels and lodges 

 are operated at present only en route to Paradise Valley. Stores and gasoline 

 supply stations offer commodities at reasonable prices. 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK 



Rocky Mountain National Park is unique for its record of glacial action. 

 Situated at the tiptop of the Rockies, this park offers unusual opportunities 

 to see easily the struggles of Nature and the elements at timberline, about 

 11,000 feet above sea level. While other parks have higher peaks within their 

 boundaries, Rocky Mountain Park has the highest average elevation. The 

 little valley of Estes Park, where is located the group of summer hotels, is at 

 8,000 feet elevation, twice as high as Yosemite Valley. Above this valley 

 the mountains rise precipitously for more than a mile, reaching up to Longs 

 Peak, dominating them all, 14,255 feet above sea level. Several other peaks 

 are almost as high as Longs. 



The valleys on both sides of the range of which these peaks are a part 

 are dotted with lovely glades clothed in a profusion of wild flowers and 

 watered by streams flowing down from the snows and the glaciers. Forests 



