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Snow drifted to the eaves of the Paradise Inn, its steep roof, row of dormer windows and stone chimney heavy with snow under a clear blue sky, with two workers in hard hats at a tunnel entrance cut into the drift.

Outdoors & River/October 8, 2026

Mount Rainier snowfall at Paradise averages 53 feet a year

Mount Rainier snowfall at Paradise averages 637 inches a year, the park says. The record is 1,122 inches, the low 266, and 2025-26 brought 479.

A weathered false-front wooden bank building with a sign reading Ye Olde Molson 1900, joined to a gabled wing signed United States Customs and Immigration, with old wagons and machinery standing in snow under a clear blue sky.

Day Trips/October 8, 2026

Ghost towns in Washington you can visit, and ones you can't

Ghost towns in Washington you can visit, from Franklin and Melmont near Enumclaw to Molson, with fees and access rules, plus the ones closed to the public.

The front of El Camino Restaurant in sunshine: its sign under a metal awning, a wooden door, and a window with a Cocktails sign, an Open sign and the phone number 360-825-5999 above food posters, with a chalkboard reading Open on the sidewalk.

Food & Drink/October 7, 2026

Mexican food in Enumclaw: 6 places and a $7 taco Tuesday

Mexican food in Enumclaw: six restaurants and taco stops, with dishes and prices from their own menus, a $7 Tuesday taco deal and happy hour times.

A single-story pizza restaurant with a green metal roof, red trim and a cream front bearing green oval Frankie's signs and red PIZZA letters, its plate-glass windows above a row of shrubs.

Food & Drink/October 7, 2026

Enumclaw pizza places: 6 menus and a pie named Buckley

Enumclaw pizza places in October 2026: six menus compared, from Cascadia's wood-fired Buckley to Domino's open past midnight on weekends, with hours and prices.

The Trapper's Sushi Co. sign, with its fish and chopsticks logo, hangs from the red-brick corner of the restaurant's building above an awning and a window lettered www.trapperssushi.com, with a crosswalk signal pole in front and parked cars and shops along Cole Street beyond.

Food & Drink/October 7, 2026

Trapper's Sushi Enumclaw menu: 9 dishes, no Enumclaw roll

Trapper's Sushi Enumclaw menu: nine dishes with prices, how the all-you-can-eat sushi bar works, and happy hour and hours on Cole Street as of October 2026.

The yellow brick front of Rainier Bar & Grill on Cole Street in Enumclaw: beer and whisky signs in a row of high windows, the restaurant's name in yellow letters on a black awning and the top of the doorway below.

Food & Drink/October 7, 2026

Rainier Bar and Grill Enumclaw menu: 10 dishes with prices

Rainier Bar and Grill Enumclaw menu: 10 dishes with prices, from the chowder its menu calls famous to a $43.95 rib steak, plus hours and parking.

A grilled burger patty on green leaf lettuce, with the top of its bun set behind it, beside a heap of fries on a white square plate on a dark wooden table.

Food & Drink/October 7, 2026

Mint Enumclaw menu: 10 things to know before you order

Mint Enumclaw menu: what the Historic Mint on Cole Street serves and what it costs, plus its kids menu, hours as of October 2026 and a 2023 happy hour card.

The Safeway storefront on Roosevelt Avenue in Enumclaw

Local Life/October 6, 2026

Safeway was named for staying out of debt

In 1925 the word on Roosevelt Avenue was a promise about money. In 1986 somebody bought the company with $4.2 billion, mostly borrowed.

A Roman-style mosaic of small stone and glass tiles in ochre, slate blue and deep green: a short, square-shouldered man in a 1920s suit and hat with a star on his lapel holds a folded paper to his chest and holds open a door of iron bars with a ring of keys in the lock, while a smaller figure in a dark coat walks away up a pale road past forested hills, a coal mine headframe, a winding river and a distant city skyline.

Local Life/October 2, 2026

Matt Starwich: the sheriff an ex-mayor swore was no citizen

In 1922 a former mayor swore King County's sheriff was no citizen. Matt Starwich brought the charge that convicted him, then asked the governor to pardon him.

A stop-motion clay diorama of a small farm town behind a low clay fence with a closed gate, and far outside the fence, at the edge of a green pasture, a short row of white container-shaped clay boxes beside four empty rectangular imprints in the grass and one more box set apart at the edge, with a clay cow standing beside them under a painted sky.

Local Life/October 2, 2026

Enumclaw's battery storage moratorium, explained

Enumclaw's battery storage moratorium is set to run to February 2027. What it blocks, what became of the Krain Corner proposal, and the October meetings.

A luminous nineteenth century style landscape oil painting of a terraced open pit in forested foothills, its floor filling with still blue-green water that reflects the clouds, old machine tracks grown over with young alder at the edge, and rows of newly planted firs on the upper benches.

Local Life/October 2, 2026

John Henry mine, Black Diamond: approved in 2018, never dug

Black Diamond's John Henry coal mine won federal approval to reopen in 2018 and never mined again. The permit, the 2021 court decree and the lake in the plan.

A Japanese woodblock print in the ukiyo-e manner of a small steep forested hill rising alone from flat farmland beneath a great snow mountain, with a twin-rotor helicopter lowering the steel frame of a lookout tower on a cable toward tiny figures on the summit, and in a band of mist below, the pale shape of a toppled wooden tower behind a small tractor.

Outdoors & River/October 2, 2026

Mount Peak fire lookout: gone in 1966, back in 2021

Mount Peak's fire lookout came down in 1966, to protect children, the state said. The history, the hill's three names, the 2021 helicopter lift and a visit.

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