Watch: Bear spotted running along highway in Mount Rainier National Park
Jacob Assouline and his father captured the video this week while driving along Highway 410 in Mount Rainier National Park. Author: KING 5 Staff Updated: 9:55 PM PDT June 17, 2021
PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. A father and son got a pretty magnificent up-close look at a bear in Mount Rainier National Park this week.
Jacob Assouline, and his father Jordan, were on their way down from Tipsoo Lake to their campsite at Silver Springs Campground when they came across the bear.
Jacob captured video of the bear and shared it with KING 5. The video shows the bear running full speed ahead along Highway 410 about 20 miles south of Greenwater.
Located in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest in the state of Washington is the majestic Mount Rainier. A large active stratovolcano, Mount Rainier is the highest mountain in Washington with an elevation of 14,411 ft (4,392 m), and surrounding it is a vast swath of wilderness covering 236,381 acres that has been designated as the Mount Rainier National Park. Rich with wildlife, waterfalls, subalpine meadows, glaciers, and old growth forest, the area is very popular for all manner of outdoor activities including hiking, camping, and mountaineering, attracting droves of people every year. However, Mount Rainier seems to be in a sense hungry, in that it is a hotspot for odd unsolved disappearances, and there have been many strange cases of people who have come here to never leave.