VisitRainier Website Connects Visitors with Wildflower Season

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To prepare people for wildflower season on Mount Rainier, the nonprofit VisitRainier is offering people a wildflower identification guide, wildflower reports and a photo sharing contest on its website VisitRainier.com.

VisitRainier will also be using social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, to update people on what flowers are blooming on the mountain leading up to wildflower season, expected to begin in mid-July. 

The wildflower and wildlife section of the VisitRainier.com website will provide links to wildflower status reports and a Top 10 list of the wildflower hikes around the mountain. For the photo sharing contest,



VisitRainier will select a first and second place winner from the entries submitted and award a $200 gift card for first place and a $50 gift card for second place. 

Some of the more popular places to see wildflowers include the meadows around Tipsoo Lake at the top of Chinook Pass and the meadows surrounding the Sunrise and Paradise areas on Mount Rainier, according to VisitRainier.