The Mountain, as seen from a high ridge in the Cascades near Green River Hot Springs, showing the north and east faces of the Peak, and Little Tahoma on the left.
Copyright, 1910, by E. F. Cutter.
NOTES.
Rates, Trains, Hotel Accommodations.—The round-trip fare from Tacoma via the Tacoma Eastern is $6.00. This includes railway transportation to Ashford and automobile-stage ride from Ashford to Longmire Springs and return. Tickets are good for the season. To parties of ten or more traveling together a single ticket is issued at $5.00 per capita. A week-end ticket, Saturday to Monday, is sold at $5.00. The rates from Seattle to the Springs are $1.50 more, in each case, than the Tacoma rates. The train schedule for 1911 follows:
| SOUTHBOUND | NORTHBOUND | ||||||
| Leave Seattle | 7.45 a. m. and | 12.30 p. m. | Leave Inn | 7.15 a. m. and | 1.30 p. m. | ||
| Arrive Tacoma | 8.55 a. m. and | 1.40 p. m. | Arrive Ashford | 8.30 a. m. and | 2.45 p. m. | ||
| Leave Tacoma | 9.05 a. m. and | 1.50 p. m. | Leave Ashford | 8.40 a. m. and | 2.55 p. m. | ||
| Arrive Ashford | 11.20 a. m. and | 4.05 p. m. | Arrive Tacoma | 10.55 a. m. and | 5.10 p. m. | ||
| Leave Ashford | 11.30 a. m. and | 4.15 p. m. | Leave Tacoma | 11.05 a. m. and | 5.15 p. m. | ||
| Arrive at Inn | 12.45 p. m. and | 5.30 p. m. | Arrive Seattle | 12.15 p. m. and | 6.30 p. m. | ||
The National Park Inn, Longmire Springs, provides excellent rooms in the Inn, with a large number of well-furnished and comfortable tents near by. The rates range from $2.50 to $3.75 a day, including meals. The dining-room is under the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound dining-car management, which insures a satisfactory table.
At the older Longmire Hotel, the rate is $2.50 a day for room and board. This hotel is open all the year, and in winter is much frequented by persons seeking Winter sports, or making use of the mineral springs.
The springs are of great variety, and are highly recommended for their medicinal virtues. Within an area of several acres, there are a score of these springs, varying from the normal temperature of a mountain stream almost to blood heat. Well-appointed bathhouses are maintained. Fee, including attendance, $1.00.
At Reese's Camp, in Paradise Park, and at Mrs. Hall's similar tent hotel in Indian Henry's Park, the charge for meals, with a tent for sleeping, is $2.50 per day.
Stages, Horses, Guides.—The cost of getting from Longmire Springs to Paradise or Indian Henry's is moderate. Many prefer to make the trips on foot over the mountain trails. Parties are made up several times a day, under experienced guides, for each of these great "parks," and sure-footed horses are provided for those who wish to ride, at $1.50 for the round trip. Guides and horses for the new trail to Eagle Peak are at the same rate. Guides may be had at the National Park Inn or at either of the "camps" for many interesting trips over the mountain trails. Horses also are furnished. The charge varies with the number in a party.
Stages carry passengers from the Inn over the government road to Nisqually glacier, Narada Falls and Reese's Camp in Paradise Park. The charge for the trip to Narada and return is $2.00; to Paradise and return, $3.00.