Mount Rainier National Park, west of the Cascade Mountain Range in Washington state, covers more than 230,000 acres of land. Fifty miles from Seattle, the park is within an easy drive for a day's visit. If you decide to linger, you'll find two hotels inside the park and three others by the ski slope nearby.
The National Park Inn is in Mount Rainier National Park in the Longmire Historic District. The hotel sits among trees, and to preserve the quiet atmosphere, it provides no telephone or television in the rooms. Instead, it offers its guests afternoon tea in front of a fireplace and access to a library. The National Park Inn is open year-round, providing a changing view of Mount Rainier from its balcony as the seasons change. The guest rooms are comfortable but simply furnished, offering coffee makers, hairdryers and Natura Green body products as amenities. Some rooms share a hallway bathroom and come with bathrobes and slippers. Rooms with private baths cost a little more. In addition, this hotel also has two wheelchair accessible rooms. All others are on the second floor and reachable by stairs only. Suites are also an option.
National Park Inn
Mount Rainier National Park
55106 Kernahan Rd. East
Ashford, WA 98304
360-569-2275
mtrainierguestservices.com
Built in 1916, the Paradise Inn inside Mount Rainier National Park retains some of its history in its original handmade woodwork, which includes a piano and a grandfather clock. The inn has a restaurant serving American cuisine, a cafe and a gift shop. Right outside the hotel, you'll find miles of trail. The original guest rooms share four showers, and women and men have separate shared bathrooms. You'll find bathrobes and slippers in those rooms. The annex, built in 1920, has rooms with private baths. True to its name, Paradise Inn offers you quiet not only with its location but with the absence of in-room television or telephone service. Suites and wheelchair accessible rooms are available.
Paradise Inn
Mount Rainier National Park
55106 Kernahan Rd. East
Ashford, WA 98304
360-569-2275
mtrainierguestservices.com
The Crystal Mountain Hotels is a group of three lodges at the base of Crystal Mountain, six miles from Mount Rainier's northeast gate.
The Bavarian-style Alpine Inn sits at the base of the ski hills within walking distance of chair lifts. It offers an upscale restaurant, a casual-dining deli and a bar. The guest rooms have no television or telephone, but the lodge has wireless Internet access throughout. Rooms sleep one to six people.
At the modern Quicksilver Lodge, each room has a refrigerator, coffee maker, television, telephone service, wireless Internet access. Rooms also have double, queen or king beds. This hotel is within walking distance of the dining options at the Alpine Inn and the chairlifts. The lobby also has a guest sitting area in front of a fireplace.
The rooms at the Village Inn have outside balconies, and each is furnished with a refrigerator, coffee maker, telephone and television. Rooms sleep one to two people. The Village Inn also has one room designated as a pet room, where your four-legged friend can stay with you. All rooms are non-smoking, and the hotel is near the dining facilities at the Alpine Inn.
Crystal Mountain Hotels
33818 Crystal Mountain Blvd.
Crystal Mountain, WA 98022
888-754-6400
crystalhotels.com
