Christine Falls: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Mount Rainier National Park, National Park Service
Dolan S. 2004. Christine Falls: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Mount Rainier National Park, National Park Service. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 400019. NPS Pacific West Regional Office. Pacific West Regional Office/CLI Database
Christine Falls is one component of the 18.4-mile long Road to Paradise, and is located approximately 3 miles northeast of Longmire, just beyond the halfway point between Nisqually Entrance and Paradise. Christine Falls is a historic designed landscape, designed to bring visitors into close proximity with Christine Falls, where they could experience the beauty of the falls from a unique vantage point. To celebrate and preserve the outstanding scenery of the falls, the design of the site followed naturalistic principles, intended to harmonize constructed works in a natural environment. Since the historic period of development between 1927 and 1941, Christine Falls has been recognized as an outstanding work of naturalistic landscape architecture. The designed site consists of the stone-faced Christine Falls bridge crossing over the falls, two vehicular pullouts, a pedestrian trail to a scenic overlook, and the rocky canyon of Van Trump Creek.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Dolan, Susan
- Date of Issue
- 2004-03-02
- Publisher
- NPS Pacific West Regional Office
- Units
- MORA , PWR
- Keywords
- Automobile Age and Suburban Development, Christine Falls Bridge, Civilian Conservation Corps, Historic Designed Landscape, Landscape architecture, Leisure, Naturalistic Landscape Design, Recreation, Road to Paradise, Rustic style, Scenic Landscape, Scenic Overlook, The 1930s: Era of Public Works, Van Trump Creek, Vehicular Circulation, Waterfall
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 400019: Christine Falls