Paradise Inn

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1916 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Paradise Inn is a historic hotel built in 1916 at 5,400-foot (1,600 m) on the south slope of Mount Rainier in Mount Rainier National Park in Washington, United States. The inn is named after Paradise, the area of the mountain in which it is located.”
Wikipedia article Paradise Inn (Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1916, National Park Service rustic, by Rainier National Park Company · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Paradise, Mount Rainier National Park, 98304
When was it listed? May 1987
Category. building
Census division. Mount Rainier
When was it built? 1916
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. Rainier National Park Company
National Register reference number. 87001336 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

38 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Paradise Inn between 1992 and 2018, burning about 27 acres in total. 26 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	26
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
23 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	NISQUALLY FIRE
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	VISTA
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	MAZAMA
27 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	B23
25 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	VANTRUMP1
24 August 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	COUGARROCK
10 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	E25
10 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	B16

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Paradise Inn: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Geothermal, Arsenic, Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Uranium, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Eagle Peak	Tungsten, Gold, Silver, Cobalt, Uranium, Copper	Occurrence	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Linnaeite, Molybdenite, Scheelite, Sphalerite
Eagle Peak	Copper, Uranium, Silver, Gold, Cobalt	Past Producer
Eagle Peak Mine	Copper, Cobalt, Silver, Gold, Tungsten, Zinc, Molybdenum, Uranium, Arsenic	Past Producer	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Linnaeite, Molybdenite, Pyrite, Scheelite, Sphalerite
Longmire Hot Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Paradise Prospect	Copper, Arsenic	Past Producer	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Paradise	Copper	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Paradise Historic District	under 500 feet	1991
Edith Creek Chlorination House	0.5 miles	1991
Narada Falls Comfort Station	1.0 miles	1991
Narada Falls Bridge	1.0 miles	1991
Christine Falls Bridge	2.2 miles	1991
Camp Muir	3.4 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001336 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pierce County	All 215 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.