Rainier Explained
Rainier may refer to the following:
People
Places
United States
- Rainier, Oregon, a small city
- Rainier, Washington, a small city
- Rainier Beach, Seattle
- Mount Rainier, a stratovolcano and national park southeast of Seattle, Washington, US
- Rainier National Forest, a former national forest now divided between Mount Baker-Snoqualmie, Wenatchee and Gifford Pinchot National Forests
- Rainier Mesa, Nevada, a nuclear test region
Canada
Sports
- Tacoma Rainiers, a minor league baseball team of the Pacific Coast League
- Seattle Rainiers, a defunct minor league baseball team in Seattle, Washington, that last played in 1976
Watercraft
- USS Rainier, several United States Navy ships
- NOAAS Rainier (S 221), a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hydrographic survey ship in service from 1968 to 1995 and since 1999
Other
- Rainier (Link station), a light rail station in Seattle
- Rainier Brewing Company, based in Washington, United States
- Buick Rainier, a mid-sized sport utility vehicle from General Motors
- Rainier cherry, a cultivar of cherry
- Rainier Club, a private club in Seattle, Washington
- Rainier, the Microsoft pre-release codename for Visual Studio .NET
- Rainier Wolfcastle, a recurring character on The Simpsons
- Rainier Motor Car Company
- Rainier Fog, a 2018 album by Alice in Chains
- Rainier, a test nuclear blast, part of Operation Plumbbob
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