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— Olympic National Park
Three ecosystems, one park.
Olympic packs a temperate rainforest, a rugged Pacific coastline and glacier-carved alpine ridges into a single peninsula — no other national park in the US covers this much ground.
922k
Acres
73 mi
Coastline
12 ft
Annual rain
Photo: US National Park Service
Hoh Rainforest
Walk the Hall of Mosses under 300-foot Sitka spruce and big-leaf maples draped in club moss. One of the quietest places in the Lower 48.
Rialto & Ruby Beach
Sea stacks, tide pools and driftwood the size of cars. Time low tide for the Hole-in-the-Wall walk out of Rialto.
Hurricane Ridge
A one-hour drive from Port Angeles delivers you to alpine meadows with views of the interior Olympics and, on clear days, Vancouver Island.