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The Kitsap Peninsula, bounded by the Hood Canal and Puget Sound, is an entirely separate peninsula and is not connected to the Olympic Peninsula. From Olympia, the state capital, U.S. Route 101 runs along the Olympic Peninsula's eastern, northern, and western shorelines. The Olympic mountain range sits in the center of the Olympic Peninsula ...
The trail follows the former Port Angeles Western Railroad grade along the shores of Lake Crescent. Built during World War I for the Spruce Production Division to transport spruce from the western Olympic Peninsula for the aircraft industry, the railroad was completed in 1919, a year too late for its intended purpose; it was then abandoned in ...
Port Townsend is located on the Quimper Peninsula which extends out of the extreme northeastern end of the Olympic Peninsula, on the north end of a large, semi-protected bay. Port Townsend is adjacent to the Admiralty Inlet and a trio of state parks built on retired artillery installations ( Fort Worden , Fort Casey , and Fort Flagler ).
Lake Crescent Lodge, originally called Singer's Lake Crescent Tavern, is a historic resort situated on the shores of Lake Crescent west of Port Angeles, Washington.Located on the Olympic Peninsula within Olympic National Park, the Lodge is owned by the National Park Service and operated by Aramark.
It is within Olympic National Park, seventeen miles (27 km) south of Port Angeles. 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).
The Ozette Native American Village Archeological Site is the site of an archaeological excavation on the Olympic Peninsula near Neah Bay, Washington, United States.The site was a village occupied by the Ozette Makah people until a mudslide inundated the site around the year 1750. [3]
As stated in the foundation document: [12] The purpose of Olympic National Park is to preserve for the benefit, use, and enjoyment of the people, a large wilderness park containing the finest sample of primeval forest of Sitka spruce, western hemlock, Douglas fir, and western red cedar in the entire United States; to provide suitable winter range and permanent protection for the herds of ...
Quilcene is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, Washington, United States.The population was 598 at the 2020 census.. The community is located on the Olympic Peninsula at the head of Quilcene Bay, an arm of the seawater-filled glacial valley of Hood Canal. [4]