Mount Rainier's historic inns and lodges / Jeff and Sonja Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anderson, Jeff, author.

Anderson, Sonja, author.

Series:

Images of America.

Images of America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mount Rainier National Park (Wash.)--History--Pictorial works.

Mount Rainier National Park (Wash.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 pages) : illustrations, map.

Place of Publication:

Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2017]

Summary:

"Presiding over the Puget Sound region, Mount Rainier has lured adventurers and entrepreneurs to its slopes since the earliest settlers. Visitors rode packhorses or hiked miles to tent "hotels" at Theosophy Ridge, Indian Henry's Hunting Ground, and Ohanapecosh. James Longmire opened Longmire Springs Hotel near bubbling mineral springs. In 1899, Mount Rainier became a national park, and eventually, a motley array of services was consolidated by the Rainier National Park Company, which built National Park Inn and Paradise Inn. Roads, services, and activities expanded, and guests poured in. Winter activities, such as skiing and tobogganing, increased the park's popularity. The 1936 Winter Olympic Ski Trials and training for World War II ski troops were even hosted there. Visitors today might be surprised to know that many inns, rental cabins, bathhouses, and other buildings have come and gone, leaving some areas more pristine now than for much of the park's history"--Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (page 127).

ISBN:

9781439660621

143966062X