Regular automobile service between the Park and Seattle and Tacoma is rendered at the rates given on page 461.
Hotels and Camps
At Longmire Springs, 6½ miles from the entrance to the Park, are the National Park Inn and Camp and the Longmire Springs Hotel. The rates at the National Park Inn are $4.00 and $4.50 per day in the hotel, and $3.75 and $4.00 in the camp. The rates at Longmire Springs Hotel are $2.50 per day.
The Rainier National Park Company has a new modern hotel (Paradise Inn) in Paradise Park, within easy access of the glaciers. The same company also operates a lunch pavilion at Paradise Park and camps at Paradise Park, Indian Henry's Hunting Ground, and Nisqually Glacier.
Paradise Inn is operated on both the American and European plan at the following rates:—
| American plan:— | ||
| Meals at Inn and bed in tents | $3.50 | |
| Meals and room at Inn | $3.75 to 6.25 | |
| European plan:— | ||
| Tents | $.75 to $1.00 | |
| Rooms | 1.00 to 3.50 | |
| Meals à la carte. | ||
A discount of 20 per cent is allowed persons remaining one week or more.
There is also a camp at Paradise Park at which tents may be obtained for 50 cents per day. These tents are all floored and contain a double bed, spring, mattress, washstand, bowl, pitcher, and chair. Blankets and sheets, pillows, pillow-cases, and towels may be rented, or the tourist may bring his own equipment. Meals may be obtained at an à la carte lunch pavilion or they may be prepared at outdoor cook furnace at the camp. Staple supplies may be purchased.
Rates at camp at Indian Henry's Hunting Ground are: bed, $.75; meals, $.75; board per week, $15.
Rates at camp at Nisqually Glacier are $.75 and $1.00 per day; meals à la carte.