The majestic mountain towers over the Washington state landscape and can be visible from most vantage point in the Seattle metro area. See the main Seattle page here. Mt. Rainier is an active volcano that is always topped with snow. It has 26 main glaciers - the most on any mountain in the lower 48 US states. It is more than 14 thousand feet high and spawns 6 major rivers and many waterfalls. The national park around the mountain was established in 1899 as the fifth national park in the United States and it encompasses 236,381 acres. Along with the towering peak of Rainer, the park’s expansive area includes many mountains, meadows, old growth forests, rivers and waterfalls. Interesting Facts: On clear days Mt Rainier can be seen as far away as Corvallis, British Columbia and Oregon. The park is popular for hiking, climbing and winter sports. Most visitors go for a day trip, but some like to stay at the campgrounds and Inns. On a recent tour with “Customized Tours”, we spent a day exploring this beautiful park and majestic mountain. We started from Seattle and headed south towards the Nisqually entrance. Along the way, we stopped at Puyallup to stretch our legs and buy some supplies. The town has a large Fred Myers grocery store with everything you can think off – including a Starbucks. It was good stop for breakfast. Interesting Facts: Some ice cave in the mountain are so cold they are being studied for similarity to conditions on Mars. Our guide and driver Joe was a
My high school used to have a camping trip to the place called big bend national park; that was a memorable journey.We used to hike over there; we spent like two or three hours to attend the highest mountain of big bend national park; you can't imagine how was the beautiful view, it was like you are standing the highest point of this national park, you can see everything you want see of this national park, there don't have anything can impede your sight line, you can see those river as very clearly, and the river is like endless, it keep extend over and over, there also have some cliff, those cliff may have different shape, they cover all the
Further from your home and closer to theirs. Elevated more than 3000 feet above sea level. The Appalachian Mountain range serves as a beacon for wildlife. Black bears, white-tailed deer, opossums, and a wide variety of rodents roam the range freely. Once standing atop a mountain you may scan in all directions as you may see many trees pulling against one another in an endless game of tug of war. The whip of the crisp breeze of hickory intertwined with oak trees would remind anyone fall is coming.
Yellowstone National Park is one of the largest and oldest national parks in American history. Yellowstone was the first park to be protected by private investment on March 1, 1872, and the first to be put under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service in 1918, no doubt due to its unique and inspiring landscape and geothermal features. In fact, Yellowstone National Park is home to half of the world’s total hydrothermal features. These awesome attractions draw an incredible amount of visitors, an average of two to three million each year, to Yellowstone’s immense landscape. The park has a total size of 28,125 square miles, is found in three distinct states, and is considered to be one of the largest
Mt. Rainer is located in Washington, US on the North American Continent. More specifically it can be found at 46.8523° N, 121.7603° W. Ashford is the closest city to Mt. Rainer. Mt. Rainer was formed by the Juan de Fuca plate and the North American Plate. This plate boundary is convergent in nature, the Juan de Fuca plate is submerged beneath the North American Plate. Mt. Rainer is a stratovolcano, they are characterized by periodically active composite volcanoes. Mt. Rainers lava has alternated between explosive and nonexplosive lava over the past million years. The lava is andesite and dacite lava. Its eruptions are explosive and nonexplosive. At one point in the past it had an explosive eruption that blew off the top of the peak. No ash is shot out of the volcano at the time of eruptions,
There are so much geographic treasures to see in Montana. The eastern part of Montana is considered the plains country where the sky is just never-ending. The central part is surrounded by mountain ranges while the western part is a combination of mountain ranges and valleys. The Yellowstone National Park is on the southern central portion of Montana. It has the massive area of geyser
I decided for my project that I would spend the time researching Mount Baker. Mount Baker is located about 30 miles east of Bellingham, Washington. The Cascade Mountain range extends over 140 miles between Seattle, Washington and Vancouver, Canada. Mount Baker is a Stratovolcano, which is also known as a composite volcano, it is also the highest peak in the North Cascades and the fifth highest in the Cascade mountain range (Volcano Hazards Programs). Cities located near Mount Baker include Abbotsford, British Columbia and Bellingham, Washington. The closest stream to the mountain is the Nooksack River which runs near the west side of the mountain. On the southwest side of the mountain is Baker Lake. I chose this area because it is a very
Let's begin our Queensland tour with the Glass House Mountains National Park, just one hour driving time north of Brisbane, or 70 kilometres away from the capital.
Mount Rainier is located in Washington, and it basically dominates the landscape of a large part of western Washington. The mountain is 4,329 meters, and it is what
The origin of Mount Washington dates back to over 435 million years ago to a period of time which was called the Taconic Orogeny. During this period of time, there was a massive shift in the earth’s crust which caused North America to crash into a series of volcanic islands. This caused the land to fold and lift to form mountains in the eastern part of the state while also creating a basin in central PA. Over the period of 30 million years these mountains eroded and where moved into the central and western parts of PA. The second period, which was called the
There was once a President that was named Calvin Coolidge that declared the lava beds a national monument in 1925 the landscape in the park was covered in lava. All of the underground caves and lava tubes were formed by the lava eruption that cause it to stay like that.
There are many beautiful places in the Northwest of the United States, but Eastern Washington is easily the most beautiful area of Washington State. I have lived in Eastern Washington for almost seven years, I have lived in California and have been to Oregon several times and have seen many beautiful regions on the West Coast. But, Eastern Washington is the best.
Mount cheese- Mount cheese is the tallest, largest, and only mountain on Equal eclipse. The reason we call this mountain mount cheese is because it looks like a cut swiss cheese. Explorers found it while they were looking for diamonds some tourist say we call it that because people used to think equal eclipse was made out of cheese.
Trails of exhaust were propelled out of every single car in the bumper to bumper traffic, making the recirculation button a necessity. The dull roar of hundreds of people walking, talking, shouting, and blaring their car horns gradually blended into one unpleasant, continuous track that I was forced to listen to. Litter and cigarette butts pooled around gutters and lined the curbs, so I redirected my gaze upwards at the towering skyscrapers. I liked the view, so long as I kept my eyes above street level, and I supposed I liked the city, so long as I did not breathe in too deeply. I tried to appreciate nicer aspects of the busy city, but where I really wanted to be, was hiking somewhere in the mountains.
The ruckus from the bottom of the truck is unbearable, because of the noise and excessive shaking. As we slowly climbed the mountain road to reach our lovely cabin, it seemed almost impossible to reach the top, but every time we reached it safely. The rocks and deep potholes shook the truck and the people in it, like a paint mixer. Every window in the truck was rolled down so we could have some leverage to hold on and not loose our grip we needed so greatly. The fresh clean mountain air entered the truck; it smelt as if we were lost: nowhere close to home. It was a feeling of relief to get away from all the problems at home. The road was deeply covered with huge pines and baby aspen trees. Closely examining the
When the sun slowly peeps over the range of mountains, birds shake the morning dew off their feathers and give a cheerful song that would lift even the most sorrowful of spirits. A light fog wraps around the mountain range, reaching to touch every bit of life thriving there. The slight chill in the air is enough to give a gentle shiver, but not enough for the need of a jacket. A breeze tickles the trees, making their leaves shake and sway with laughter. Sunlight seeps in past the thick canopy of branches with hopes of being able to reach the damp mountain earth. The mountains are the best place to live to be relaxed, see the most beauty, and never get bored.