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Hurricane Ridge is a mountainous area in Washington's Olympic National Park. Approximately 18 miles (29 km) by road from Port Angeles , the ridge is open to hiking , skiing , and snowboarding and is one of the two most visited sites in the national park (along with the Hoh Rainforest ).
The Dodger Point Fire Lookout was built atop the mountain in 1933. [5] During World War II, the lookout was used as an Aircraft Warning Service station in 1942–43. The Dodger Point and Pyramid Peak Lookouts are the only stations remaining in Olympic National Park of the thirteen that were constructed.
Views of the Olympic National Park can be seen from the Hurricane Ridge viewpoint. The road leading west from the Hurricane Ridge visitor center has several picnic areas and trailheads. A paved trail called the Hurricane Hill trail is about 1.6 miles (2.6 km) long each way, with an elevation gain of about 700 feet (210 m). It is not uncommon to ...
Hurricane Ridge is one of only three lift-serviced ski areas operating in a U.S. National Park (Badger Pass in Yosemite National Park, and Boston Mills/Brandywine Ski Resort in Cuyahoga Valley National Park are the others). It is the westernmost ski area in the continental United States.
Hurricane Hill is a 5,757-foot (1,755 m) mountain summit located within Olympic National Park in Clallam County of Washington state. It is part of the Olympic Mountains and is situated at the western end of Hurricane Ridge within the Daniel J. Evans Wilderness.
Satellite image of the Olympic Peninsula The Olympic Peninsula and Olympic National Park Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Queets River Mount Olympus. The Olympic Peninsula is a large arm of land in Western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park.
William E. Bailey, 1890. This geographical feature's name was officially adopted in 1961 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. [2] It is named for William Elder Bailey (born February 10, 1860), proprietor of the Seattle Press, the state's primary newspaper in 1889 when the paper printed a request from the governor of Washington, Elisha P. Ferry, for men to cross and explore the Olympic ...
The Olympic Mountains are a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula of the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The mountains, part of the Pacific Coast Ranges, are not especially high – Mount Olympus is the highest summit at 7,980 ft (2,432 m); however, the eastern slopes rise precipitously out of Puget Sound from sea level, and the western slopes are separated from the Pacific Ocean by ...