Paradise, Mt Rainier NP, looking north
at Mt Rainier from new visitor center
Elevation: 5400 ft
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Paradise, Mt Rainier NP, looking east from new visitor center
Elevation: 5400 ft
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Paradise, Mt Rainier NP, looking SW
from Guide House towards new visitor center
Elevation: 5400 ft
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Paradise, Mt Rainier NP, looking south
at Tatoosh Range from new visitor center
Elevation: 5400 ft
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Paradise, Mt Rainier NP, looking west from new visitor center
Elevation: 5400 ft
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Paradise, Mt Rainier NP, Air Quality Webcam,
looking southwest from the ski dorm
Elevation: 5400 ft
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Camp Muir on Mt Rainier, looking south at the
Muir Snowfield, Mt Adams, Mt Hood, and Mt St Helens
(summer only, roughly April-Oct, removed during off-season)
Elevation: 10100 ft
Image modification time: Wed Sep 25, 2019 09:01:50
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Camp Schurman on Mt Rainier, looking SW at the
Emmons-Winthrop Glaciers and the summit area
(summer only, roughly April-Oct, removed during off-season)
Elevation: 9450 ft
Image modification time: Mon Sep 23, 2019 09:07:08
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Sunrise, Mt Rainier NP, looking east at parking lot from the visitor center
(summer only, roughly June-October, no power during off-season)
Elevation: 6400 ft
Image modification time: Mon Sep 30, 2019 17:26:14
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Sunrise, Mt Rainier NP, looking SW at Mt Rainier (7 miles)
and Little Tahoma (6 miles) from the visitor center
(summer only, roughly June-October, no power during off-season)
Elevation: 6400 ft
Image modification time: Mon Sep 30, 2019 17:25:40
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Crystal Mountain, upper gondola terminal, 14 miles ENE of Mt Rainier,
movable cam often looking southwest at Mt Rainier
Elevation: 6850 ft
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Crystal Mountain, top of Chair 6, 13 miles ENE of Mt Rainier,
movable cam sometimes looking southwest at Mt Rainier
Elevation: 6990 ft
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White Pass Ski Area, High Camp Lodge,
excellent view of Mt Rainier from 24 miles SE
Elevation: 6000 ft
Image modification time: Wed Oct 23, 2019 22:30:16
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Carbon River, Mt Rainier NP, looking NW at bridge on FR 7810
from near Carbon River entrance, 12 miles NW of Mt Rainier
Elevation: 1750 ft
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Longmire, Mt Rainier NP, 8 miles SSW of Mt Rainier's summit,
looking SW from the historic Administration Building
Elevation: 2750 ft
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Whittaker's Bunkhouse, Ashford, 14 miles WSW of Rainier,
6 miles west of park entrance on SR 706, looking west
Elevation: 1750 ft
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Elbe Bridge over Nisqually River, SR 706 junction
on SR 7 @ MP 17, 21 miles WSW of Mt Rainier
Elevation: 1220 ft
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Mineral Lake, 22 miles WSW of Mt Rainier and
3 miles south of Elbe on SR 7, looking east, no view of Mt Rainier
Elevation: 1450 ft
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Mineral Lake, 22 miles WSW of Mt Rainier and
3 miles south of Elbe on SR 7, looking north from above boat ramp
Elevation: 1450 ft
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Mineral Lake Lodge, 3 miles south of Elbe on SR 7,
view of Mt Rainier from 22 miles WSW
Elevation: 1500 ft
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Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Westside, SR 16 @ MP 8.5,
view of Mt Rainier from 48 miles NW
Elevation: 200 ft
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SR 163 Interchange (Pearl St), SR 16 @ MP 3.7,
view of Mt Rainier from 45 miles NW
Elevation: 360 ft
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Union Ave, SR 16 @ MP 1.1,
view of Mt Rainier from 43 miles NW
Elevation: 400 ft
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Strawberry Hill SkyCam in Tacoma, I-5 @ MP 134,
view of Mt Rainier from 41 miles NW
Elevation: 250 ft
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Auburn Airport, east of SR 167 @ MP 16,
view of Mt Rainier from 40 miles NNW
Elevation: 100 ft
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Pierce County Airport (Thun Field), on SR 161 @ MP 22,
view of Mt Rainier from 30 miles NW
Elevation: 550 ft
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Eatonville Middle School, on SR 161 @ MP 3,
view of Mt Rainier from 24 miles west
Elevation: 800 ft
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Burnett Landing, private airstrip south of Buckley on SR 165 @ MP 18,
partial view from 23 miles NW of Mt Rainier
Elevation: 800 ft
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Viking Ave in Poulsbo, just east of SR 3,
distant view of Mt Rainier from 74 miles NW
Elevation: 100 ft
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Illahee Community Webcam, north of Bremerton off SR 303,
distant view of Mt Rainier from 66 miles NW
Elevation: 50 ft
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Harstine Island, east of Shelton off SR 3,
distant view of Mt Rainier from 60 miles WNW
Elevation: 100 ft
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Gig Harbor Cam, east of SR 16 @ MP 12,
telephoto view of Mt Rainier from 51 miles NW
Elevation: 50 ft
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University of Washington Red Square Cam, Seattle,
distant view of Mt Rainier from 61 miles NNW
Elevation: 200 ft
Image modification time: Wed Oct 23, 2019 22:33:01
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UW Atmospheric Sciences Rainier Webcam, Seattle,
distant view of Mt Rainier from 61 miles NNW
Elevation: 200 ft
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Toledo cam, east of I-5 @ MP 63 at west end of the airport,
distant view of Mt Rainier from 57 miles SW
Elevation: 350 ft
Image modification time: Wed Oct 23, 2019 22:30:58
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Toledo Weather cam, east of I-5 @ MP 60 in Toledo,
distant view of Mt Rainier from 59 miles SW
Elevation: 300 ft
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KOMO-TV Columbia Tower Cam, Seattle,
movable cam often with telephoto view of Mt Rainier from 60 miles NNW
Elevation: 1050 ft (rooftop is 1042.5 ft above sea level)
Image modification time: Wed Oct 23, 2019 22:32:22
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KOMO-TV Queen Anne Tower Cam, Seattle,
movable cam often looking at Mt Rainier from 60 miles NNW
Elevation: 700? ft
Image modification time: Wed Oct 23, 2019 22:33:45
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Seattle Queen Anne Weather Cam,
distant view of Mt Rainier from 60 miles NNW
Elevation: 500 ft
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KING-TV Queen Anne Tower Cam, Seattle,
movable cam often looking at Rainier from 60 miles NNW,
sometimes looking at Mt Baker from 83 miles SSW
Elevation: 700? ft
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KING-TV Waterfront Cam, Seattle,
movable cam often looking at Mt Rainier from 59 miles NNW
Elevation: 100 ft
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KIRO-TV Queen Anne Tower Cam, Seattle,
movable cam often looking at Rainier from 60 miles NNW
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Elevation: 800? ft
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| Page History: |
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| March 2009 |
Original version with 6 camera views, based on the Washington Mountain WebCams webpage |
| November 2009 | Added option to show the last 24 hours of NWAC and
SNOTEL telemetry data from Mount Rainier below the webcams |
| December 2009 | Added code to error-check for missing SNOTEL data |
| January 2010 |
Added
Mount Rainier Recreational Forecast to the right of telemetry data
Added camera image modification time from webserver for the NPS air quality image (looking SW from the ski dorm)
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| March 2010 | Fixed broken links to SNOTEL website |
| May 2010 | Fixed unwanted line breaks in SNOTEL telemetry dates on narrow screens |
| August 2010 | Updated the parser for Mount Rainier Recreational Forecast (source file from NOAA had changed),
and updated the URLs for five NPS webcams which had moved to a new server |
| November 2010 |
Fixed a minor bug in the SNOTEL data display, which only occurred between 11pm and midnight and showed the previous day's date for the 0000 hour's data row |
| March 2011 |
Fixed a minor quirk in the SNOTEL data display, which only occurred when SNOTEL data is not available at a given site for the previous 24 hours |
| June 2011 |
Expanded to 7 camera views and rearranged one camera, adding the new Camp Muir webcam which was installed on May 18 and went live on June 2 |
| November 2011 | Expanded to 8 camera views, adding the new Longmire webcam |
| February 2012 | Updated the URLs from which to download the SNOTEL data, which had recently been changed slightly |
| July 2012 |
Expanded to 11 camera views in 3 rows, adding the 2 new Sunrise webcams plus the Crystal Mountain upper gondola terminal webcam
Rearranged some camera images, and added the capability of having wide images span 2 columns as on some other MtnWebCams pages |
| December 2012 |
Expanded to 15 camera views in 4 rows, adding 3 cams in Mineral Lake and 1 in Ashford to show conditions along the western road approach
Added notes to the captions for the Sunrise and Camp Muir webcams, which are summer only
Crystal Mountain camera image now includes a timestamp, so don't display image modification time, and use the full-resolution (1280x720) version of the image
Added more code to properly handle the new HTTP Status 404 errors from the SNOTEL server, and other unknown SNOTEL errors,
plus added location info for the Paradise SNOTEL site
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| January 2013 | Remained at 15 camera views, adding the new Eatonville cam and removing one of the Mineral Lake cams |
| March 2013 |
Forced to write a new external script to grab SNOTEL data,
after the long-existing SNOTEL data programs on the NWCC website were suddenly redirected to a beta-version report generator
The new script is a major improvement, it displays wind and solar data for any SNOTEL sites which have those sensors, mostly installed within the last few years
Added the nearby Mowich (a very low-snowdepth site just west of the park boundary) and Burnt Mountain SNOTEL sites
Added display of the NWS COOP data (daily manual measurements) for Paradise and Longmire
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| October 2013 |
Revised the page layout to use separate tables for each row, to better accommodate the very different widths of images
(the Guide House and Longmire webcams were recently upgraded to wider HD format images)
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| November 2013 |
Added code to detect the correct wintertime Sunrise and Camp Muir images, which switched to alternate Flickr URLs in October 2013
Expanded to 16 camera views, adding the new Carbon River webcam, and reduced image sizes slightly from 480-360-240 to 440-330-220 pixels high for large-medium-small options
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| February 2014 |
Revised code to detect the correct wintertime Sunrise and Camp Muir images, since the source code of the MRNP webcams page had changed |
| March 2014 |
Added an option to disable the NPS Air Quality Webcam (by appending "&aq=off" to the URL) if this page is not loading properly,
as server issues on that website are often the cause of such problems
Expanded to 17 camera views, adding the new Pierce County Airport (Thun Field) webcam
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| October 2014 | Expanded to 18 camera views, adding a new WSDOT cam at Elbe |
| November 2014 |
Expanded to 27 camera views in 6 rows, adding several long-distance views of Rainier
(Auburn Airport, Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Gig Harbor, Harstine Island, and 4 from Seattle), plus also reinstating one Mineral Lake cam
Added the new Skate Creek SNOTEL site, south of the park, which was installed in October 2014
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| December 2014 |
Expanded to 29 camera views, adding 2 more long-distance views of Rainier from Illahee and UW in Seattle,
and reduced image sizes slightly from 440-330-220 to 400-300-200 pixels high for large-medium-small options
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| February 2015 |
Minor fix to formatting of NWS COOP data (daily manual measurements for Paradise and Longmire) which had changed |
| March 2015 |
Expanded to 30 camera views, adding the view from High Camp Lodge at White Pass Ski Area
Updated the parser for the NWS COOP data (daily manual measurements for Paradise and Longmire), the webpage formatting had changed substantially
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| May 2015 | Fixed both Mineral Lake webcam URLs which had changed |
| October 2015 | Fixed White Pass webcam URL which had changed to a different camera view |
| November 2015 |
Commented out code to detect the correct wintertime Sunrise and Camp Muir images, since the source code of the MRNP webcams page no longer contains the actual URLs,
and instead simply added the file modification times below those images to make it more obvious when they are no longer updating during the wintertime months
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| December 2015 |
Expanded to 31 camera views, adding the view from Burnett Landing on SR 165,
and also added image modification times for the White Pass and KING-TV webcam images which were now missing that info
Reduced image sizes slightly from 400-300-200 to 360-270-180 pixels high for large-medium-small options
Embedded the MountRainierNPS Twitter feed, which as of 2015 has the best available road opening and closure info
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| January 2016 |
Expanded to 38 camera views, adding the KOMO-TV Queen Anne and Columbia Tower Cams,
Queen Anne Weather Cam, 3 views from Tacoma (including 2 more WSDOT cams), and a very distant view from Poulsbo (74 miles)
Reduced image sizes slightly from 360-270-180 to 320-240-160 pixels high for large-medium-small options, rearranged the order of many images substantially,
and revised several image captions
Added location info for all NWAC sites, and
updated the external script which grabs NWAC data to generate an HTML table
which matches the style of the SNOTEL and MesoWest data, so these WebCams pages can now show an arbitrary mix of NWAC, SNOTEL, and MesoWest telemetry sites in any order
Wrote a new external script to grab data from MesoWest (such as the data from
the RAWS telemetry sites), which downloads the data as a CSV file and formats it to match the style of the SNOTEL data
Added 2 nearby RAWS hourly telemetry sites in Ashford and Ohanapecosh which have
precip, wind, solar, and other sensors (but not snowdepth -- NOTE: a snowdepth column has subsequently appeared in the Ohanapecosh data after the site was first included here!)
Added the Cayuse Pass SNOTEL and Chinook Pass NWAC sites to the east of Mount Rainier near the park boundary, which were already included on the Crystal Mountain WebCams pages
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| February 2016 |
Expanded to 39 camera views in 7 rows, adding the Space Needle Cam, an amazing 360° Roundshot Cam installed on top in late 2014
(see interesting installation info and diagram),
figuring out how to grab the still image from this webcam was not obvious at all, but ended up being fairly simple
Later added an annotated graphic above the Space Needle Cam image showing the direction and distance to numerous landmarks (towers, buildings, mountains), and
also increased the size of that image to better fill the available page width for large-medium-small options
Major internal PHP code cleanup, updating and/or deleting legacy code left over from very long ago,
from the original Washington Mountain WebCams webpage (December 2004) on which this page was based
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| March 2016 |
Added the Pierce County Airport, Carbon River precip, and WSDOT Elbe telemetry sites,
all with data available via MesoWest, and
rearranged the telemetry sites into more logical geographic order
Both KING-TV camera images now include a timestamp, so don't display image modification times
Fixed all Weather Underground camera URLs, which now apparently need "?time()" appended in order to update properly
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| April 2016 | Fixed both KING-TV webcam URLs which had changed |
| October 2016 | Fixed some webcam URLs which had changed |
| November 2016 |
Expanded to 40 camera views, adding another Crystal Mountain cam with occasional views of Rainier which was installed over the summer,
and rearranged several camera images
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| December 2016 | Fixed the URL for the White Pass Ski Area High Camp webcam, which had changed |
| October 2017 |
Expanded to 43 camera views, belatedly adding the Camp Schurman webcam which was installed over the summer, along with 2 cams in Toledo,
and fixed the URLs for the Whittaker's Bunkhouse, Crystal Mountain upper gondola terminal, and White Pass High Camp webcams which had changed
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