Glacier View Wilderness

Glacier View Wilderness is a 3,073-acre wilderness area in Washington, bordering the west side of Mount Rainier National Park. Established in 1984, it is prized for broad views of Mount Rainier’s glaciated eastern skyline, especially from Mount Beljica and Glacier View Point. Managed by the Gifford Pinchot National Forest’s Cowlitz Valley Ranger District, the area is reached from State Route 706 near Ashford by Forest Service Road 59 and offers primitive camping along wilderness trails. Notable routes lead to Lake Christine, Mount Beljica, and Glacier View Point. A fire lookout built at Glacier View Point in 1934 connects today’s recreational landscape with an earlier era of forest surveillance.

Washington · United States