Category Archives: Olympic Peninsula
Olympic National Park, NW USA
lympic National Park is mainly the inner of the , a far northwest promontory of , at the far northwest corner of the United States. The old-fashioned enters the Peninsula at its base, and circumnavigates the Park, mostly staying outside it. ‘The Loop’ is a big part of the popularity of Olympic, and a …
Olympic Mountains, NW USA an outlying buckle in the subduction zone
lympic Mountains is a small (50-75 mi), cleanly-defined, roughly circular and radial, even slightly spiraled local range (barely) on the far northwest coast of the USA. It dominates the interior of . The Olympics are noted for their high degree of ruggedness, and for their high visibility from nearby urban and conurbated populations. Many Seattlites …
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Logging road access to Olympic Wilderness Coast
The Olympic National Park has strips of land along the Pacific coast, separate from the main body of the Park. These coast-strips are quite narrow, mostly just a mile or few wide. But we don’t notice that they’re skinny, since we’re on routes that hug the beaches. There are only a small number of official, …
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Elwha River Road – not to the Elwha always broken; can't fix
he is sometimes seen referred to as the Elwha River Road. Locals are not affected … even though they also practice & perpetuate the ambiguous usage. The road that visitors to the and the facilities & recreation along the will be looking for is the Olympic Hot Springs Road. Not the Elwha River Road.
Stripped Peak, Olympic Peninsula outlying, isolated, small Olympic Mtn on the water
tripped Peak (1,166′) sits off by itself, 7-8 miles from the northern frontrange of the (4-5 miles from the Foothills), hard against the coast, 5-6 miles west of the mouth of the . It is mostly State DNR timberland, but has gradually taken on more of a recreational character & role.