Nisqually Entrance: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Mount Rainier National Park, National Park Service
Dolan S. 2010. Nisqually Entrance: Cultural Landscape Inventory, Mount Rainier National Park, National Park Service. Cultural Landscapes Inventory Report. 400018. NPS Pacific West Regional Office. Pacific West Regional Office/CLI Database
Nisqually Entrance is one component of the 18.4-mile long Road to Paradise. It is located at the southwest corner of the National Park boundary, and marks the beginning of the road. Nisqually Entrance is a historic designed landscape, and was developed over a period dating from 1906 to 1941. The site was developed as an entrance station by early federal employees, National Park Service staff and the Civilian Conservation Corps, in accordance with the rustic style of architecture and naturalistic landscape design. This approximately 15-acre landscape was laid out to support the functions of a park entrance station, with park entry and exit circulation, an administrative core, and peripheral residential and utility areas. Nisqually Entrance is the longest operating entrance station in the National Park System, and remains the busiest entrance to Mount Rainier National Park.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Dolan, Susan
- Date of Issue
- 2010-09-09
- Publisher
- NPS Pacific West Regional Office
- Units
- MORA , PWR
- Keywords
- automobile, Civilian Conservation Corps, Designed National Landmark, Entrance Station, guardhouse, Historic Designed Landscape, Landscape architecture, Naturalistic Landscape Design, Nisqually Entrance Arch, ranger station, Recreation, Road to Paradise, Road-Related, Rustic style, The 1930s: Era of Public Works, The Automobile Age and Suburban Development, Transportation
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 400018: Nisqually Entrance