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Mount Rainier’s Historic Inns and Lodges (Images of America)

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Presiding over the Puget Sound region, Mount Rainier has lured adventurers and entrepreneurs to its slopes for the reason that 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 changed into a national park, and in the end, a motley array of services and products was once consolidated by the Rainier National Park Company, which built National Park Inn and Paradise Inn. Roads, services and products, 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 lately could be surprised to grasp that many inns, rental cabins, bathhouses, and other buildings have come and long gone, leaving some areas more pristine now than for far of the park’s history.

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