After traveling to all 63 major US national parks, destinations like Grand Teton, Acadia, and Glacier National Park were my ...

We’ll never know for sure how much FDR’s stopover at Lake Crescent Lodge had to do with the declaration that created Olympic National Park nine months later in 1938, but the staff of this venerable ...

Located in the northern foothills of the Olympic Mountains, Lake Crescent, which is free to access, is about 18 miles west of Port Angeles. If staffing allows, the Storm King Ranger Station is ...

Because of the Olympic Peninsula’s isolation ... But my favorites sat on tree branches above Lake Crescent, eyeing the lake below. I watched the bald eagles for an hour or more.

Of those, Olympic National Park ... paddle a kayak through Lake Crescent, surf the ocean waves or simply relax in a hot-springs pool. "There's something for everyone," Walz said.

The final phase of work for the Spruce Railroad Trail project at Lake Crescent is now complete ... Trails Coalition. The Peninsula Trails Coalition (PTC), as the spearheading organization for the ...

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — One lane on U.S. Highway 101 near Lake Crescent had reopened by Thursday evening after a collision at 4:57 p.m. left both lanes blocked. The state Department of Transportation ...

Two seasonal options exist on Lake Crescent, on the north side of the ... perhaps the only thing the Olympic Peninsula lacks is a big city. But from Port Angeles, it's just a 90-minute ferry ...

Route 101 is the main road that rings the Olympic Peninsula, partially encircling the majority ... There are also several ranger stations throughout the park in popular locations such as Lake Crescent ...

Welcome to the Pacific Northwest! From the city of Seattle, make your way to Olympic National Park, one of the most beautiful places on Earth. It is in this landscape that natural wonders, complex ...