Tag: Mt. Rainier National Park

This is the map of my 16-day, Goin’ West 2014 trip: This surpassed my previously longest car trip from Grinnell to Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, by a whole 17 miles!! I stuck pretty closely to my original route, with some new additions–especially Little Bighorn National Park and North Cascades National Highway–and only two major deletions.  …

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Saturday morning, but I got off to an early start in the hope of beating the crowd into Mt. Rainier National Park.  First things, first, though.  I discovered you don’t enter one of these parks low on gas.  There’s usually no gas station inside, and you can potentially be miles away from one.  So, I …

Read More “Day 8: When It Rainier(s), It Pours”