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Wonderland Trail Fire Closure Runs Carbon River to White River
Mount Rainier's fire closure ends at White River Campground. Sunrise Road stays shut to cars for the rest of the season.
The Wonderland Trail at Mount Rainier is closed from the Carbon River Suspension Bridge to White River Campground, the park's conditions page says, along with the Northern Loop Trail and every trail in the Grand Park area. Our status band still showed the closure running from Carbon River to Summerland; the park now lists White River Campground as the end point. Summerland has its own separate trailhead closure for bridge construction.
The cause is the Wonderland Complex, the Grand Park 2, West Fork, Garda Falls and Pigeon fires, which the park says remain active and are expected to burn until extinguished naturally.
White River Road and White River Campground reopened September 5. Sunrise and Sunrise Road are open to people on foot and bicycles but closed to private vehicles for the rest of the 2026 season. The Grove of the Patriarchs remains closed, as it has been since the 2021 flood.
Our earlier status also said no Wonderland circuit permits were being issued. We could not confirm that against the park's current pages, so it is no longer on the board. Check the park's wilderness information center about through-hike permits before planning one.
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