In 2024, Mount Rainier National Park celebrated its quasquicentennial, or the 125th Anniversary of its creation in 1899. The park has grown and changed a lot in those years! Pieces of its history have been preserved in the park’s archives. These objects and documents give a glimpse into the many events that have shaped the Mount Rainier National Park we know today.
A few of them are captured in the story map “Celebrating Mount Rainier’s 125th Anniversary with Artifacts”.
In 2024, Mount Rainier National Park celebrated its quasquicentennial, or the 125th Anniversary of its creation in 1899. The park has grown
As we start the next year, what objects do you think will tell the park’s story in the future? What object or document tells YOUR story at Mount Rainier?
___ NPS Photos of some of the artifacts featured in the story map: 1930s drawing of Mount Rainier by the park’s first naturalist, Floyd Schmoe, 1930s saw and axe used by the Civilian Conservation Corps, beer bottle found in 2006 during excavations for the Jackson Visitor Center, soap found during the 2017-2019 rehabilitation of the Paradise Inn Annex, and the Mount Rainier 125th Anniversary challenge coin.















