In the early year, a variety of groups came to help establish the park. Those people saw the potential benefit from the mountains. They combined their interests into a campaign. On Mar. 2nd, 1899, the Mount Rainier National Park was established, as the fifth national park in the United States. It was the first national park created from a national forest.
The park stressed the potential for tourism from the cities around it, for other commercial purposes like grazing, agriculture, and mining. A need to preserve the glacial landscape for future study. The reason why Mount. Rainier National Park is so important today is because it has so many magnificent landscapes and precious resources. It protects the headwaters of five watersheds that from
