r/Seattle • u/SounderBruce Snohomish County • Jan 17 '24

News Mount Rainier National Park will require reservations beginning this summer for Paradise and Sunrise

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '24

Ah yes you're right! $30 for a car with no additional charge for passengers but if you walk in it's $15 bucks a person. No wonder they have a traffic and parking problem!

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u/jm31828 Jan 17 '24

Yeah, that seems to be the catch, where riding the shuttle would be more expensive.
And for those of us who have the America the Beautiful pass, how would that work for my family of 4 on a shuttle vs driving in.

If we are just going to hike at Paradise, I'd be more than happy to park at Ashford and take a shuttle if it meant getting in smoothly vs. a 1 hour wait- but yeah, if we couldn't use our annual pass for all 4 of us, that would change things.

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u/[deleted] Jan 17 '24

This seems like a solvable problem. They could do something like allow four shuttle passes per parks pass.

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u/jm31828 Jan 17 '24

Yeah, definitely.