SCENIC EXCURSIONS 



Taku Bay to view the Taku Glacier. Passengers 

 have two days at Skagway, which is sufficient time 

 for going up over the White Pass Road to Bennett 

 or even as far as White Horse. 



From Tacoma and Seattle, on Puget Sound, a 

 number of interesting trips may be made into the 

 Cascade and Olympic ranges, with their great for- 

 ests and interesting botanical and geological fea- 

 tures; by steamer to Victoria, and to Vancouver 

 by the Great Northern Railway along the shore of 

 Puget Sound, or by the somewhat more inland route 

 of the Northern Pacific Railway; to the United 

 States Navy Yard at Bremerton on Port Orchard 

 Bay; through Hood's Canal near the Olympic Mount- 

 ains; to Snoqualmie and Electron falls, which are 

 used to generate electricity for the Puget Sound 

 cities, and to the Mt. Rainier National Park. 



The Rainier National Park may be reached from 

 Tacoma by the Tacoma Eastern Railway (fifty-five 

 miles) to Ashford, and thence by auto stage (thir- 

 teen miles) to the National Park Inn ($3.25-$3.75 

 per day, American plan), at Longmire Springs. 

 (Round trip fare from Seattle $6.50; from Tacoma 

 $5.00.) An automobile road extends also from Ta- 

 coma to Longmire Springs at the base of Mt. Rainier 

 and to Paradise Park farther on, where there is 

 a tent hotel (rates $2.00-$2.50 per day). The Park 

 season is from June 1st to September 30th. The 

 system of glaciers radiating from the peak of Mt. 

 Rainier (elevation 14,408 feet) is remarkable for 

 the great extent of ice-field. Many evidences of 

 past volcanic activity can be seen. From the Na- 

 tional Park Inn it is a short climb to Eagle Peak 

 and the summit of the Ramparts, where the view 

 is exceptionally fine. Trips may be made on horse- 

 back to Indian Henry's Hunting Ground, Mirror 

 Lake, Van Trump Park, etc. The round trip 

 (twenty-eight miles) from National Park Inn to 

 Paradise Valley and the Camp of the Clouds may 

 be made by auto stage. 



The Olympic Range lying on the west side of 

 the Sound, and reaching up to the Strait of Juan de 

 Fuca, affords some of the most rugged mountain 

 scenery in this country. The railroad engineering 

 work and the reclamation work of the United States 

 Government in the Cascade Range deserve partic- 

 ular attention. Lakes Kachess, Keechelus and 

 Clealum have been turned into enormous reser- 

 voirs for irrigation for the Yakima Valley on the 

 east side of the Cascade Range. A number of fine 

 peaks rise in the western part of Washington, 

 among them: Mt. Baker (elevation 10,827 feet), Gla- 



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