{"id":2005,"date":"2015-07-10T22:21:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T14:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2019-02-03T15:48:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T07:48:03","slug":"on-mt-rainier-scenic-walk-with-meadow-flowers-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/10\/on-mt-rainier-scenic-walk-with-meadow-flowers-in-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"On Mt. Rainier – Scenic Walk with Meadow Flowers in Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since I’m rarely in Seattle, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to catch the meadow flowers in bloom on Mt. Rainier. The scenic Naches Peak Loop Trail\u00a0was a great way to view the flowers as well as a few lakes in a relatively easy three-plus mile walk.<\/p>\n

Mt. Rainier is around a one and a half hour drive from downtown Seattle. While I joined Evergreen Escapes for this tour to Mt. Rainier, it’s actually pretty easy to do this walk on your own if you have a car. The trail is\u00a0well signed and clear. The other benefit of the Naches Peak Loop Trail is that it’s a round trip walk, coming back to the car park. Elevation change on the walk is around 300 feet so it’s not too demanding. The one tip is to do the walk clockwise so that the view of Mt. Rainier remains ahead of you (rather than behind).<\/p>\n

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Start of the trail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The early part of the walk will go through some trees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The meadow flowers are all around<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The trail continues over the walkway<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Naches<\/a>
The red indian paintbrush and purple lupine flowers were dominant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Typical view on the first part of the walk – flowers in the meadow, mountain ridges in the back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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About midway through, there’s a nice swimming hole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Looking back on the trail after leaving the swimming hole<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Looking down on Dewey Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Naches Peak Loop Trail shares part of the long Pacific Crest Trail but here, we follow the sign to Tipsoo Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is about as steep as it gets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Naches<\/a>
As the trail loops around, a stunning view of Mt. Rainier emerges<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another small swimming hole but a particularly scenic one<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Views of Mt. Rainier remain ahead of us in the latter half of the walk and as we head back down<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The trail emerges at a road that we cross to get to Tipsoo Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Walking toward Tipsoo Lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A stream run off from Tipsoo Lake – at the end of our walk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For more info on walks and visits to Mt. Rainier, the park website is:\u00a0<\/strong>http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/mora\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Evergreen Escapes tours:<\/strong>\u00a0http:\/\/www.evergreenescapes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since I’m rarely in Seattle, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to catch the meadow flowers in bloom on Mt. Rainier. The scenic Naches Peak Loop Trail\u00a0was a great way to view the flowers as well as a few lakes in a relatively easy three-plus mile walk. Mt. Rainier is around a one and a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,153,17],"tags":[43,100,56,97],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-northamerica","category-usa-northamerica","tag-featured","tag-seattle","tag-usa","tag-walks","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2031,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gazeandgraze.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}