Millions of years ago, a volcano created Wheeler Geologic Area. We visited the hoodoo-filled landscape and learned what it ...

Though its landscape is quite different, this amazing but unsung Washington state park is arguably just as breathtaking as the famous Mount Rainier.

Several of Mount Rainier’s glaciers are already gone, experts say, and others aren’t far behind. The News Tribune asked what ...

Washington state has its own active stratovolcano that the U.S. Geological Survey says has a chance to erupt "in our lifetimes": Mount St. Helens. Here's what to know.

The 1980 eruption cycle made Mount St. Helens one of the most famous volcanoes in the Cascades. But it is far from the only volcano in the range.

An estimated two million people visit Mount Rainier National Park, the National Park Service reported. Here's what you need to know about the closure of the Carbon River Fairf ax Bridge.

In 1870, the first successful climbers of Mount Rainier identified this as the main summit. The other summits are Point Success (approximately 4,315m) and Liberty Cap (approximately 4,301m).

A map in Zalmai Zahir’s paper created by Chris Duenas, courtesy of the Puyallup Tribal Language Program, shows the native languages spoken around Mount Rainier, in addition to the different ...

"It's totally at a state of background activity, so we're not worried about Mount Rainier right now,” said Alex Iezzi, a research geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey.

In the summers of 1914 and 1956, the United States Geological Surgery (USGS) used the triangulation method – which relies on angles and trigonometry and is significantly more accurate – to ...

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) still lists Mt Rainier as being 14,410 feet on its website. Newsweek reached out to the USGS for comment via email outside of business hours.

Ten feet of elevation loss wouldn’t change Rainier’s ranking among the tallest mountains in the contiguous United States; it sits at No. 5, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.