Hiking Mount Storm King Trail is a rite of passage for Washington adventurers. Whether you’re a Washington local or a tourist ...

“You can hike for a full week through Olympic National Park, into the backcountry and out. You can drive up to Hurricane Ridge and view this sea of mountain tops.” Whatever visitors choose to ...

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.

Make sure you also have food contained properly. Animals in Olympic National Park include mountain goats, some of which have become accustomed to people and can get aggressive. If a goat ...

Mountain goats aren’t native to Olympic National Park. A dozen were introduced here by a sporting club in the 1920s. Over time the goats proliferated to a population of over 1,000, trampling ...

Technically, this side of the lake isn’t even the park – it’s part of the Olympic National Forest, which makes up 633,000 acres surrounding the national park. And the lake itself is not ...

Mount Rainier and North Cascades national parks each saw six employees let go last week, while Olympic National Park lost five, said Bill Wade, the executive director of the Association of ...

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 ...

Olympic National Park features a spectacular coastline ... alpine meadows and glaciated mountain peaks. It contains one of the world’s largest stands of virgin temperate rainforest, and includes many ...