Narada Falls: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Mount Rainier National Park, National Park Service
Dolan S. 2004. Narada Falls: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Mount Rainier National Park, National Park Service. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 400021. NPS Pacific West Regional Office. Pacific West Regional Office/CLI Database
Narada Falls is one component of the 18.4-mile long Road to Paradise landscape. It is located approximately 17 miles along the road from Nisqually Entrance, and just 1-mile southwest of Paradise. The designed landscape is composed of a parking area with a viewpoint, a stone-faced bridge across a high waterfall, a terrace with two historic buildings (though one is non-contributing), and a trail to a scenic overlook. The site embraces both sides of the mouth of the Paradise River valley. A bridge and parking area have existed in this location since 1915, though the existing bridge, parking area and other built features date from the 1926 to 1941 period of development. These features were designed and constructed according to naturalistic principles of landscape design, and the rustic style of architecture perpetuated by the National Park Service during the inter-war period.
- 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, Bureau of Public Roads, Civilian Conservation Corps, Engineering, Historic Designed Landscape, Landscape architecture, Naturalistic Landscape Design, overlook, Paradise River First Crossing Bridge, Road Bridge, Road to Paradise, Road-Related, Rustic style, Scenic Landscape, The 1930s: Era of Public Works, Transportation, Waterfall
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 400021: Narada Falls