. Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1917. les enter-ing the park this year were 5,894, against 3,070 last year. The totaltourist travel was 35,568, against 23,989 last year. Conditions formotoring in the park are better now than ever before, and we haveevery reason to expect that automobile traffic will continue to in-crease by leaps and bounds. REPORT DIRECTOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. 835 The railroads which reach the points nearest the park boundariesare the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, with terminus at Ashford,Wash., and the Northern Pacific, with
. Reports of the Department of the Interior for the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1917. les enter-ing the park this year were 5,894, against 3,070 last year. The totaltourist travel was 35,568, against 23,989 last year. Conditions formotoring in the park are better now than ever before, and we haveevery reason to expect that automobile traffic will continue to in-crease by leaps and bounds. REPORT DIRECTOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE. 835 The railroads which reach the points nearest the park boundariesare the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, with terminus at Ashford,Wash., and the Northern Pacific, with terminus at Fairfax, nearthe northwestern corner of the park. Until the Carbon River roadis built tourist travel via the Northern Pacific to Fairfax will be oflittle importance. As the Rainier National Park Co. operates anautomobile line from Tacoma and Seattle to the park on daily sched-ule, the park is as readily accessible by this route as it is by the rail-road lines. As I have indicated in another part of this report,Mount Rainier Park is on the National Parks Highway. m. Approximate Scale 100 90 80 7060 50 40 30 20 10 0 100 200 Stat, Miles Railroad Routes xo Mount Rainier National COLUMBIA RIVER HIGHWAY. In going from Mount Rainier Park to Crater Lake, either byautomobile or train, the national park traveler should go throughPortland, Oreg., and make the trip over the wonderful ColumbiaRiver Highway and enjoy the scenic grandeur of the gorge of theColumbia. This highway is designated as a part of the NationalParks Highway. It was constructed at the cost of several millionsof dollars and it combines the skill of trained road engineers oflarge experience with the dreams of practical landscape one side the traveler sees several magnificent waterfalls, in-cluding the famous Latourelle, Wahkeena, and Multnomah Falls, andon the other hand the incomparable panorama of the ColumbiaRiver gorge. Should the Mount Hood national park project,1 asrecommended by yo
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