Mount Rainier National Park National Historic Landmark Nomination
Toothman S, Begley S, Carr E. 1997. Mount Rainier National Park National Historic Landmark Nomination. National Historic Landmark Nominations. 97000344_NHL. National Park Service. Washington, DC
This document is the National Historic Landmark (NHL) nomination for Mount Rainier National Park in Lewis and Pierce Counties, Washington. The NHL nomination for Mount Rainier National Park documents its national significance under NHL Criteria 1 and 4. The initiation of the National Park Service master planning process at Mount Rainier in the late 1920s was a major step in the design and management of scenic reservations in the 20th century. Mount Rainier is an exceptionally valuable example of American landscape architecture, specifically as the most significant example of national park master planning. Furthermore, Mount Rainier is nationally significant in the history of technology (transportation) and regional and urban planning. The period of national significance is 1904-1957. The Mount Rainier NHL District encompasses almost all of the roads, historic developed areas, and historic backcountry structures of the park. The historic district is a discontiguous district with a contiguous core that follows the park road system as a corridor. This historic corridor connects and includes all the major developed areas of the park, and includes the Wonderland Trail (the 93-mile loop trail system around the mountain) and the two spur entrance roads in the northwestern corner of the park. The discontiguous (backcountry) portions of the district are the 11 backcountry cabins and shelters, and the four fire lookouts that are not within the contiguous district.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Toothman, Stephanie; Begley, Susan; Carr, Ethan
- Date of Issue
- 1997-02-18
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- MORA
- Keywords
- Building, History, History (Cultural), Landscape Architecture, Longmire, Mount Rainier, National Historic Landmark, Paradise, Structure, Topography, Transportation, Vegetation