Olympic National Park

Green is the overwhelming color on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. From dazzling emerald to muted pine, you’ll detect countless shades in the wet, mossy confines of the Lower 48’s most north-westerly national park. Here, 1000-year-old trees guard the finest tract of old-growth rainforest in the US. The park is also home to majestic Roosevelt elk, regular deluges of precipitation, and a sylvan environment that has inspired numerous tales of adventure.

If you are visiting Washington State, you must visit Olympic National Park. First, the national park is only two hours out of Seattle. Second, there are many amazing things to do in Olympic National Park, and third, it’s one of the most beautiful national parks in the United States.

We hadn’t thought of visiting Olympic National Park, but after attending TBEX TriCities (a travel blogging conference that we’ve enjoyed since 2011), we set out on a tour along the coast of Washington State. We ended up visiting this amazing national park on a whirlwind trip through the Olympic Peninsula.