The Ipsut Creek Road was once driveable its entire 5 miles, with the Ipsut Creek campground a drive in akin to Cougar Rock or Ohanapecosh. After two major flooding events the road has been converted to trail status, open to hiking and biking. This video was recorded on April 29, 2012. As of this writing (June, 2016) the trail has suffered more damage and some parts will be more difficult to transit on bike.

The 5 mile road from Mt. Rainier National Park's Carbon River entrance to the Ipsut Creek campground is forever closed to vehicular traffic but remains open as a bike/hike trail. Biking this trail is the fastest way to do the 17 mile round trip to the Carbon Glacier, plus the easy grade makes for a very pleasant ride. This tour shows all the different parts of the trail in a descent ride, edited for time by cutting out some of the cruising sections where the prior road is still in good shape. This was filmed on April 29, 2012. Filmed with a Contour Plus at 60 FPS mounted to the frame.

5 years later with mother nature keeping things in flux, this update (filmed on May 26, 2017) shows the entire trail with no time editing......23 minutes to cover the entire 5 miles.

The 5 mile road from Mt. Rainier National Park's Carbon River entrance to the Ipsut Creek campground is forever closed to vehicular traffic but remains open as a bike/hike trail. This is an update, filmed on May 26, 2017, since the original was filmed on April 29, 2012. Mother nature keeps things in flux and erosion from the Carbon River continues to eat away at this original vehicular road turned trail. Filmed with a chest mounted GoPro Hero 5 Black and a bike mounted Contour Roam2.

This short video highlights some of the biking opportunities at Mt. Rainier National Park.

I use Mt. Rainier National Park as an all around training ground and I especially like to bike the various roads in the Winter/Spring. A favorite is to bike from Longmire to Paradise, 11 miles with 2600 feet of steady climb, then enjoy the blast back down as a reward. Highlights included here are the Paradise road, Highway 410 through the park, the West Side Road and the Ipsut Creek trail (formerly a road now closed to vehicular traffic).