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Photograph of Camp Muir
Photograph by Mitch from Costa Mesa, CA, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Camp Muir

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Camp Muir, named for the naturalist John Muir, is a high-altitude refuge for climbers in Mount Rainier National Park in Washington, accessed through the Paradise Entrance. The shelters comprising the camp are situated at a 10,188 ft (3,105 m) elevation between the Muir Snowfield and the Cowlitz Glacier on Mount Rainier.”

Wikipedia article Camp Muir, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Mt. Rainier National Park, Paradise, 98304
  • When was it listed? March 1991
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Mt. Rainier National Park MPS
  • Census division. Mount Rainier
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • Architect. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/f05f29696a717e6d9b1fba33ae806c60
  • National Register reference number. 91000176 - 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

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Camp Muir between 1998 and 2018, burning about 24 acres in total. 16 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
Natural16
Recreation and ceremony2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
23 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkNISQUALLY FIRE
3 August 1999Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkVISTA
3 August 1999Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkMAZAMA
28 August 2002Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkBOULDER2
25 August 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkVANTRUMP1
28 July 2018Natural20 acresMount Rainier National ParkFAN LAKE FIRE
28 July 2009Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkMAZAMA
28 July 2009Naturalunder an acreMount Rainier National ParkFAN

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Camp Muir: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
StarbonitCopperPast 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Edith Creek Chlorination House2.9 miles1991
Paradise Inn3.4 miles1987
Paradise Historic District3.4 miles1991
Summerland Trail Shelter4.0 miles1991
Narada Falls Comfort Station4.2 miles1991
Narada Falls Bridge4.2 miles1991

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000176 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pierce CountyAll 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.