While Mount Rainier National Park is subject to variable weather and snow far into the summer, the highways just outside the park boundaries hold a bevy of easy-to-access attractions.
Start: State Route 161, 18 miles south of Puyallup
End: State Route 706, Ashford
25 miles Start with a Wild Moose Chase
Like Noah’s Ark for the western Cascades, Northwest Trek Wildlife Park is an animal collective tucked into 725 rural acres, a kind of country cousin to Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium. The roster here ranges from cougar and bobcat to otters and bears—both black and grizzly varieties.
In the free-roaming area, moose, bison, elk, and bighorn sheep wander
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