Olympic National Park

Olympic National Park, established in 1938 on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, protects three utterly different worlds in one park: glacier-capped mountains, temperate rainforest, and a wild Pacific coastline. Isolated on its peninsula and ringed by water, the Olympic country evolved its own distinct plants and animals, and the park preserves one of the largest stretches of untouched wilderness in the lower 48.

On the park's western side, the Hoh and Quinault rainforests are among the wettest places in the continental United States, where up to 14 feet of rain a year feeds moss-draped forests of giant trees. At the center, the glacier-clad Olympic Mountains rise to nearly 8,000 feet at Mount Olympus, and a separate strip of park protects miles of rugged, sea-stacked coast. The variety draws more than three and a half million visitors a year.

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