In the Pacific Northwest, Washington offers the most dramatic scenery. The best place to enjoy the outdoors is in a National ...

on the shoulder of Mount Olympus, called the Hoh River Trail. Following a fire in May 2023 that destroyed the Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center, this area of the park remains temporarily closed.

Those distant summits are the Olympic Mountains, the towering heart of Olympic National Park ... the most easily accessible mountain in the park, to take in top-of-the-world views of the Olympics ...

All national parks across the country will offer free admission Saturday, as National Park Week kicks off ... is home to the North Cascades, Olympic and Mount Rainier national parks and each ...

More park news: National Park Service firings hit Mount Rainier, Olympic, North Cascades In July 2024, the bridge's load rating was reduced to 16,000 pounds (8 tons). This was the third ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Travel + Leisure recently released a list of the most beautiful places across the United States, with two national parks in the Pacific Northwest making the cut.

Businesses on Washington State's Olympic Peninsula are preparing for a summer impacted by staffing cuts at Olympic National Park. Concerns are growing about maintenance and visitor ...

The northwest corner of Mount Rainier National Park became ... In 2024, the agency replaced a similar bridge near Olympic National Park. The project, which involved the 98-year-old Elwha River ...

on the shoulder of Mount Olympus, called the Hoh River Trail. The Hoh sits on the west side of Olympic National Park, about a two-hour drive from Port Angeles and less than an hour from Forks ...

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It had also carved out huge portions of Washington land with the establishment of Mount Rainier National Park in 1899 and Olympic National Park in 1938. The forest service had already been ...