Live national decision tool

Which Mount Rainier roads are open today?

Paradise, Sunrise and the park approaches do not always share the same status. Start with the current road system before building the day around a destination.

Current decision

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This page will not invent a current answer if the source fails.

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The decision

What this tool is trying to answer

Mount Rainier visitors often have a destination in mind before checking whether the approach is actually usable. Fires, snow, construction and seasonal closures can all change the answer. This page elevates the current NPS road source above a generic park-open label.

Check the approach road for the specific area you want to visit.
Seasonal and emergency closures can affect one side of the park without closing everything.
A VERIFY result means the source did not support a simple park-wide open/closed answer.

How to use this result

Make the decision from the status, freshness and evidence together

Start with the current decision, then check the timestamp and source excerpt before changing a route, reservation or departure time. A green-looking condition is only useful when the underlying source is current. If the tool returns VERIFY or LIVE SOURCE UNAVAILABLE, open the official source instead of treating an old reading as an all-clear. Recheck close to departure because roads, alerts, water levels and mountain weather can change after you first plan the trip.

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