Sunshine Point is just a short way inside Mt. Rainier National Park from the Nisqually entrance. When my kids were little, we would camp here in my pickup truck for a few days as they played in the woods and explored the Nisqually River flood plain. Alas, in November of 2006 severe flooding washed away a portion of the (drive-in) campground and access road and it was closed forevermore. In October of 2019 and June of 2022, I ‘schwacked into the old campground (a creek now makes Sunshine Point an island) and took a stroll, noting the degradation of the picnic tables, the robustness of the metal trash cans and the hidden macadam under the moss and leaves. Nostalgia was in the air.