Mt Rainier NP Webcams
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MPG V2.8, January 2012

NP Web Cameras

Information

News.--The NPS has added a new Webcam to the array of them in Mt. Rainier NP. Besides the recent addition of the one at Camp Muir, they added one at Longmire, below, looking southwest at the highway from the Nisqually entrance with the visitor facilities on the left and the Longmire springs across the highway behind the trees on the right.

he NPS has four Webcams located in the Jackson Visitors Center at Paradise, which can be found at their Website and the latest images shown below with links to download the image file (jpg) to your computer. In addition to those Webcams, there is one in the Mountain Guide house which looks west at the Visitors Center and one in the NPS facilities west of the Visitors Center which looks to the southwest down the Nisqually valley.

Sometimes the images from the Webcams don't appear on the Web page here and the NPS Web page. This is due to access problems with the weather, technical problems or periods of downtime to acquire parts or equipment.
Occasionally the Webcam images aren't current so you have to read the bottom of the image for the date-time stamp, and read the notice with the Webcams on the NPS Web page.

Kudos goes to the NPS staff for their work in adding and maintaining the Webcams for the public. It's a great tool for both them and us.

Latest Webcam Views

You can click either the link to get the full size image in a tab or browser window, or click the image to get the full size image in a popup window. You will need to have popup windows enabled with your browser.

Mount Rainer (download image)

Tatoosh Range (download image)

Looking east (download image)

Looking west (download image)

This is one of the newer of the Webcams at Paradise. This view is of the Jackson Visitors Center and to the southwest from the Mountain Guide Center on the north side of the parking lot between the visitors center and the Paradise Inn. The camera produces a different size image than the Webcams in the Jackson visitors Center.

Looking southwest (download image)

Another Webcam is for monitoring air quality, NPS Web page, or click on the image on the right. This Webcam is located in the Tahoma Woods Administration building at Paradise west of the Jackson Visitor Center (above Webcams). The Webcam looks southwest with the road from Longmire to Paradise in the lower right corner of the image, and the Web page presents the latest air quality information.

This is the newest of the Webcams in the NP. This view is of the Longmire area 6 miles inside the Nisqually entrance in the southwest corner of the NP, the only entrance open during the winter (the Carbon River entrance is a permanent walk-in entrance) and to the southwest at the highway from the entrance. The Longmire Museum and former gas station is on the left in the image and the Longmire springs across the highway behind the forest on the far right in the image.

This is the newest Webcam in Mt. Rainier NP at Camp Muir on the southeast flank at about 10,100 feet elevation. The camera looks due south down the Muir Snowfield and one of the major climbing routes from Paradise. The camera is on the guide service hut, see instrument cluster. One good days you can see climbing groups from Paradise along the left side of the image.

Information

The Webcams are a 24/7 view and some situations will cause a bad image. The first is if it's dark, it's obvious night, so check the time stamp on the image. The second is when the camera is down for whatever reason(s) and the NPS will display an old image or a message image. The third, like the one at Camp Muir is only operated during daylight hours or down during cold weather. Archive images don't seem to be available at this time.

There are other Webcams throughout the Puget Sound area looking at Mt. Rainier or encompassing it in the sweep of the camera across the scene (a Google search will easily return a list). They're not listed here because many are intermitent or not of sufficient quality (distance shot) to be useful for seeing the condition on and around Mt. Rainier.

Please use the contact link to send e-mail if you have any questions.