Mount Rainier National Park
Washington

The park contains outstanding examples of the old-growth Douglas-fir forest ecosystem. The Grove of the Patriarchs in the Ohanapecosh Valley offers an excellent introduction to the ancient old-growth stands.  Distance, round-trip: 1.5 miles.

 Elevation: 2200 feet.

Elevation gain: None.

Hiking time, round-trip: 1 hour

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A Abraham Lincoln Birthplace NHS|Acadia NP|Adams NHS|Agate Fossil Beds NM|Agua Fria NM|Allegheny Portage Railroad NHS|Anacostia Park|Andrew Johnson NHS|Antietam NB|Appomattox Court House NHP|Arches NP|Arlington National Cemetery|Aztec Ruins NM

B Badlands NP|Bandelier NM|Big Bend NP|Big Cypress NP|Big Hole NB|Bighorn Canyon NRA|
Big South fork National River NRA|Big Thicket NP|Biscayne NP|Black Canyon of Gunnison NP|Blue Ridge Parkway|Booker T Washington NM|Boston NHP|Brown vs Board of Education NHS|Bryce Canyon NP

C Cabrillo NM|Cane River Creole NHP|Cane River NHA|Canyon de Chelly NM|Canyonlands NP|Canyon of the Ancients NM|Cape Cod NS|Capital Building of USA|Capitol Reef NP|Capulin Volcano NM|Carl Sandburg Home NHS|Carlsbad Caverns NP|Carrizo Plain NM|Casa Grande NM|Carter G Woodson Home NHS|Cascade-Siskiyou NM|Castle Clinton NM|Catoctin Mountain Park|Cedar Breaks NM|Chaco Canyon NHP|Chamizal NM|Channel Islands NP|Charles Pinckney NHS|Chesapeake & Ohio Canal NHP|Chickamauga & Chattanooga NMP|Chimney Rock NHS|Chiricahua NM|City of Rocks NP|Civil War Defenses of WA (Fort Circle)|Clara Barton NHS|Claude Moore Farm|Colonial NHP|Colorado NM|Congaree NP|Constitution Park|Coronado NM|Cowpens NB|Crater Lake NP|Craters of the Moon NM|Cumberland Gap NHP|Cumberland Island NS|Cuyahoga Valley NP

D Dayton Aviation Heritage NHP|Death Valley NP|Deshler-Morris House|Devil's Post Pile NM|Devil's Tower NM|Dinosaur NM

E Ebey's Landing NHR|Edgar Allan Poe NHS|Edison NHS|Effigy Mounds NM|Ellis Island NM|El Malpais NM|El Morro NM|Erie Canalway NHC|Eugene O'Neill NHS|Everglades NP

F FDR Memorial|Fire Island NS|Flaming Gorge NRA|Flight 93 NM|Florissant Fossil Beds NM|Fort Bowie NM|Fort Circle Parks|Fort Foote Park|Fort Laramie NHS|Fort Larnard NHS|Fort McHenry NMS|Fort Necessity NB|Fort Pulaski|Fort Scott NHS|Fort Stanwix NM|Fort Sumter NM|Fort Union NM|Fort Vancouver NHS|Fort Washington|Fossil Butte NM|Frederick Douglass NHS|Fredericksburg-Spotsylvania NHP|Fredrick Law Olmsted NHS|Friendship Hill NHS

G Gateway NRA|George Washington Birthplace N.M.|George Washington Carver NHS|George Washington Parkway|Gettysburg NMP|Glacier NP|Glen Canyon NRA|Glen Echo Park|Gloria Dei (Old Swedes' Church) NHS|Golden Gate NRA|Golden Spike NHS|Giant Sequoia NM|Gila Cliff Dwellings NM|Glacier NP|Grand Canyon NP|Grand Canyon/Parashant NM|Grand Portage NM|Grand Staircase/Escalante NM|Grand Teton NP|Grant Kohrs Ranch NHS|Great Basin N P|Great Sand Dunes NP|Great Smokey Mountains NP|Guadalupe Mountains NP|Guilford Courthouse NMP

H-I Hagerman Fossil Bed NM|Hampton NHS|Hanford Reach NM|Harmony Hall|Harpers Ferry NHP|Harry S Truman NHS|Hells Canyon NRA|Herbert Hoover NHS|Hohokam-Pima NM|Homestead NM|Hopewell Culture NHP|Hot Springs NP|Hovenweep NM|Hubble Trading Post NHS|Independence NHP|Ironwood NM

J-K James A Garfield NHS|Jean Lafitte NHP|Jefferson Memorial Jewel Cave NM|John Day Fossil Bed NM|John F Kennedy NHS|John Muir NHS|Johnstown Flood NM|Joshua Tree NP|Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks NM|Kenilworth Park|Kings Canyon NP|Kings Mountain NMP|Klondike Gold Rush NHP

L Lake Mead NRA|Lake Roosevelt NRA|Lassen NP|Lava Beds NM|Lewis and Clark NHP|Lincoln Home NHS|Lincoln Memorial|Little Big Horn NM|Longfellow NHS|Lowell NHP|Lyndon B Johnson NHP

M Maggie L Walker NHS|Mammoth Cave NP|Manassas NB|Manzanar NM|Marsh Billings Rockefeller NHP|Martin Luther King NHS|Meridian Hill Park|Mesa Verde NP|Minidoka Internment NM|Minute Man NHP|Minuteman Missile NHS|Mojave NP|Monocacy NB|Montezuma Castle NM|Morristown NHP|Mount Rainier NP|Mount Rushmore NM|Mount St. Helens NM|Muir Woods NM

N Natural Bridges NM|Natchez NHS|Natchez Trace NP|Nat'l Center Preservation Tech & Training|Navajo NM|Newberry Volcanic NM|New Orleans Jazz NHP|Nez Perce NHP|Ninety Six NHS|North Cascades NP

O Ocmulgee NM|Old Stone House|Olympic NP|Oregon Caves NM|Organ Pipe Cactus NM|Oxon Cove Park & Oxon Hill Farm

P Padre Island NS|Palo Alto Battlefield NHS|Pecos NHP|Peirce Mill|Petersburg NB|Petrified Forest NP|Petroglyph NM|Pentagon NM|Pinnacles NM|Pipe Spring NM|Pipestone NM|Piscataway Park|Point Reyes NS|Port of Chicago NM|Poverty Point NM

 R Redwood NP|Richmond NBP|Rock Creek Park|Rocky Mountain NP|Roger Williams N.M.|Rosie the Riveter NHP

S Sagamore Hill NHS|Saguaro NP|Saint-Gaudens NHS|Salem Maritime NHS|Salinas Pueblo Missions NM|San Antonio Missions NHP|San Francisco Maritime NHP|San Juan NHP|San Juan Island NHP|Santa Monica Mountains NRA|Santa Rosa - San Jacinto Mountains NM|Saratoga NHP|Saugus Iron Works NHS|Scott's Bluff NM|Sequoia NP|Shenandoah NP|Silos & Smokestacks NHA|Sonora Desert NM|Stanwix NM|Statue of Liberty NM|Stones River NB|Sunset Crater NM

T Thaddeus Kosciuszko NM|Theodore Roosevelt NP|Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural NHS|Theodore Roosevelt Island|Thomas Stone NHS|Timpanogos Cave NM|Tonto NM|Tumacácori NHP|Turkey Run|Tuzigoot NM

U-V Upper Missouri River Breaks NM|Valles Caldera NP|US Capitol Building|Valley Forge NHP|Vermillion Cliffs NM|Vicksburg NMP|Voyageurs NP

W Walnut Canyon NM|Washington DC|Washington Monument|Weir Farm NHS|White Sands NM|Whitman Mission NM|William Howard Taft NHS|Wilson Creek NB|Wind Cave NP|Wolf Trap NP|Women's Rights NHP|Wupatki NM

 Y-Z Yellowstone NP|Yosemite NP|Yucca House NM|Zion NP

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