Carbonado is a town in Pierce County, Washington, United States. Carbonado is located near the Carbon River in northern Pierce County, approximately 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Seattle. Carbonado is the last town previously entering Mount Rainier National Park and is plus a popular spot for jeeping. Carbonado served as an important coal mining community in the late nineteenth and to the front twentieth centuries, when the town operated the largest coal mine in Pierce County. The population was 610 at the 2010 census.

Carbonado was one of quite a few towns in the Carbon River valley to be contracted during an economic boom in the region. The boom was brought on by raw material demands in friendly growing towns such as Seattle and Tacoma. Starting in the same way as the town of Wilkeson and moving on through Burnett, Carbonado, Montezuma, Fairfax, and finally Manley Moore, these settlements sprawled up the valley to the categorically boundary of Mount Rainier National Park. Most of these towns were company towns, meaning that they specialized in the harvest of raw materials on the Plan of house that the town was situated on which was owned by a flyer company. Often—and such was the encounter of Carbonado—the company then owned the houses and the simulation resources as well. The energy resource in Carbonado was in addition to the raw material that the citizens of the company town were harvesting, coal.

More than 100 miners died in mining accidents in and in this area Carbanado, including 31 killed in an explosion in Carbon Hill Coal Company’s Mine Number 7 on December 9, 1899.

During the time of the initial boom in the valley Carbonado grew to rival the size of Tacoma at the time. The railroad, which was integral to the transportation of people, of the raw materials harvested and the supplies need by the towns, stretched all the quirk up the valley too. Not without help did it promote the towns but after that several homesteads farther up the valley. These homesteads were established predominantly by Polish immigrants. They supplied the towns beside the valley taking into account fresh milk and eggs. Two survive to gift day, one known as Carbon River Ranch (the main house is the outmoded Fairfax studious and can be seen from the highway) and the further formerly known as Huckle-Chuck. At Huckle-Chuck the native homesteaders house and one of their barns are yet used and functional. At the pinnacle of the boom both of these homesteads and the towns which they supplied were quite productive and lively.

However, the boom did not last as the economy took a downturn and behind it came the decline of the infatuation for the lower grade coal bodily mined at Carbonado and the timber beast harvested for use in the settlements extra up the valley. Since the end of the mining era, Carbonado has experienced extreme shrinking and small booms ultimately ending gone a steady population. All of the current residents take action elsewhere and what was with an economic center for the valley is now a residential community. The railroad with pulled out and destroyed its towns quite recently. The Rails to Trails project has most of the actual rail line land in its possession.