The Paradise area of Mount Rainier National Park, home of the park’s main visitor center and its largest hotel, has been without running water and restrooms this weekend.

“No water or restrooms are currently available at Paradise and Narada Falls due to issues caused by a recent heavy rain event affecting the water system,” the national park wrote on its website.

A weather station at Paradise shows the area has had essentially no rain — 0.04 inches — in the past week, according to data collected by the Northwest Avalanche Center. The area got close to 1 inch of rain Sept. 6.

An operator at the Paradise Inn confirmed the century-old, 121-room hotel and the nearby Henry M. Jackson Visitor Center were without water Saturday. He did not have an estimate for when water service might return.

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