Cherries, 14,409 feet, and Washington. What do these all have in common? Mount Rainier. Mount Rainier is one of the biggest volcanoes in the United States and in the world. Mount Rainier is a National Park and has a whopping average of 1,875,651 people visit every year which isn’t even enough to be in the “Top Ten Most Visited National Parks”. People often wonder, “Is it safe to visit Mount Rainier?”, and it is. Mount Rainier is considered a episodically active volcano which means that it won’t erupt any time soon but will eventually. At Mount Rainier, you can do many activities while you are there such as walk on trails, climb to the summit, or just go on a simple bike ride.

Where is Mount Rainier? Mount Rainier is located in Tacoma, Washington just over two hours away from downtown Seattle, Washington. Its exact coordinates are 46.8529° N, 121.7604° W. The mountain range that this volcano is apart of is the Cascade Range which travels throughout many states such as California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. The National Park’s land is approximately 369.3 mi² which is not huge compared to other National Parks. …show more content…
More than 500,000 years ago, hot lava oozed out of the Earth’s crust and formed a cone shaped mountain which dried up and was actually a volcano. In 1792, Captain George Vancouver and his crew were traveling along to coast of the Northwest United States and came across this massive volcano and went back to his hometown and told everyone about what he had discovered. A little more than 78 years later, Philemon Beecher Van Trump along with Hazard Stevens where the first people to climb to the top of Mount Rainier and wrote many stories about their travel. The last time this volcano erupted was in 1894 and didn’t cause very much damage to very many people because not many where