Spray Falls and Spray Park at Mt. Rainier

August 2005

Spray Park and Spray Falls are destinations along a great day hike in Mount Rainier National Park. Starting by Mowich Lake and taking the Wonderland Trail from there, Spray Park Trail splits off across up and down topography. Views from Eagle Cliff looking out across the mountain side of Rainier is a prime snacking spot, and then on to the big falls. Spray Falls spreads like shimmering lace across a bold rock surface, and it's one of my favorite waterfalls so far. Spray Park is renowned for its displays of wildflowers in July, and its wide flat expanse provides viewing angles for many different distances and directions all around.

Josh at one of several moss-covered waterfalls along the way

 

Spray Falls

 

View from one side of Spray Park. We watched a black bear wander around in the meadow below.

 

This was a seriously plump marmot, quite content with us around

 

Josh, Scott, Karen, and Mt. Rainier, from Spray Park

 

 

Mount St Helens and Columbia River Gorge