The Shadow Of Mount Rainier Causing A Gap In The Sunset.

Mount Rainier National Park Archives courtesy Vicknair Album Photo of the Nisqually Entrance Arch in 1923.

The Nisqually Entrance has been the main entrance to the park at least since the Nisqually Road, originally called the “Government Road”, was first surveyed in 1903 and went as far as Longmire. Nisqually Entrance is the longest operating entrance station in the National Park Service and remains the busiest entrance to Mount Rainier National Park. Welcoming visitors to the entrance is a log portal, called the Nisqually Entrance Arch, that was first constructed in 1911. The current 1973 entrance arch is a reconstruction of a 1930s reconstruction of the original 1911 arch at the same location. The workmanship, materials, and feeling of the reconstruction are completely consistent with the original arch and the Nisqually Entrance Arch remains a historic structure in the park’s National Historic Landmark District.

NPS Photo of the snowy arch in February 2019 (left) and NPS/B. Burnett Photo of the entrance arch in August 2019 (right).

Visitors have been stopping at the entrance arch to take photos for over a century – have you?

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Frozen.

Good morning ✨💚

Daybreak.

Lake Wenatchee Rocks

Horsin Around.

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Kona

Snorkeling the Hawaii coast 🤙🏽

Clouds 👀 view.