#White River

[theflyfishingartist]

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A Skyrim journey, 48/?

[mountrainiernps]

Mount Rainier National Park Archives Photo of the White River Ranger Station, circa 1931, with the porte-cochère extending out over the road.

White River Entrance is in the northeast corner of Mount Rainier National Park and was built between 1929-1931 in anticipation of the opening of Sunrise Road in 1931. It replaced an earlier entrance station that had been built in 1915. The new White River Entrance was modeled after the Nisqually Entrance, the first entrance in the park located in the southwest corner. The White River Ranger Station, which served as a combined office and checking station, was constructed of whole logs with a cedar shingle roof in the NPS Rustic style of architecture. A large porte-cochère, a roof extending out over the roadway, was added to the design to help serve visitors during poor weather. A few years later, a very similar porte-cochère was added to the Nisqually Entrance checking station.

Mount Rainier National Park Archives Photos: a ranger handing out the first visitor permit, 7/15/1931, (left), and the ranger station in 1960 with the center kiosk (right).

The White River porte-cochère was altered three times over the years, at one point extending over two lanes with a fee kiosk in the middle, before ultimately being downsized to its current smaller configuration that no longer allows vehicles. The current entrance kiosks were built in 2001 and the historic ranger station now serves as the White River Wilderness Information Center. White River Ranger Station is a contributing building to the Mount Rainier National Historic Landmark District.

NPS/E. Brouwer Photo of the White River Ranger Station in 2014.

Did you visit White River Ranger Station when it was still the checking station or have you stopped to get wilderness information there during the summer?

~kl

[veloci-raptor]

Fossil Novembirb: Day 8

Bathornis veredus and Daphoenus fight over a dead Mesohippus

[amassofhumanity]

Little Golden Gate Bridge

Beaver, Arkansas

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[heheviolet]

white river, calico rock, ar

[rabbitcruiser]

The children’s book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard, was first published on October 14, 1926.

[theflyfishingartist]

The White in Arkansas ❤️

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[mountrainiernps]

NPS/S. Shane Photo of Steamboat Prow, 1991.

Landscape Language

Prow (noun) – the forward part of a ship’s hull

Like the prow of a ship cutting through ocean waves, the landscape formation known as Steamboat Prow splits apart the two largest glaciers on Mount Rainier. The Emmons and Winthrop Glaciers are connected from the summit down to Steamboat Prow, then divide to flow into separate valleys. In the photo above, Steamboat Prow is the large triangular shaped formation on the eastern slopes of Mount Rainier. Emmons Glacier flows down on the left and is the source of the White River. The Winthrop Glacier descends on the right and is the source of the West Fork of the White River. The West Fork rejoins the White River outside of the park, which eventually flows into the Puyallup River and into Puget Sound. 

NPS Photo of the Winthrop Glacier with Steamboat Prow on the left, 1961. ~kl

[lostsoulsparadise]

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Dick Westcott took this photograph at White River in Pentewan, Cornwall

[kurtoutdoorman]

The beautiful South Fork