Exploring Olympic Peninsula

07/13/2022

Experience Hoh Rainforest Elk and Hiking Tours in Olympic National Park's Protected Old-Growth Forest Ecosystem

The Hoh Rainforest is dripping in moss, ripe with summer berries, and ablaze in fall color. Learn more about elk and old-growth temperate rainforest ecology with your naturalist

Hoh Rainforest elk and hiking tours can be organized to include additional Olympic National Park destinations. Hoh Rainforest elk and hiking tours involve multiple hours of driving but the outstanding old-growth forest is worth the additional travel distance.

07/12/2022

Bring your binoculars and set your sites on frolicking pods and spouting blow holes. There’s also a lot of action close to shore.

Whale sightings aren’t guaranteed, of course, but these spots are designated for a reason.

There’s a pretty good chance you’re going to see some action during the migration in the spring and fall.

Whale watching excursions leave Port Angeles and Port Townsend and often visit pods of resident orca.

The 15 best view points for whale watching on the Olympic Peninsula & in Olympic National Park, including Port Angeles, La Push & Destruction Island.

07/10/2022

If you're traveling to the Hood Canal area check out all the activities and events in Jeff Slakey's Tracing the Fjord report.

The Expo & Bite of Mason County is well worth the trip!

07/08/2022

Check out the new digital Tracing the Fjord !

Rachel Hansen | editor

03/15/2022

02/26/2022

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02/25/2022

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05/27/2021

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03/29/2021

The South Fork Skokomish River Valley offers quite a contrast from the North Fork Skokomish River Valley. Located within Olympic National Forest and not Olympic National Park, the South Fork sees a fraction of the number of folks that visit the North Fork.

03/29/2021

NW Trails, Craig Romano, Green Trails Maps, Olympic Peninsula, Olympic National Park, Lake LaCrosse, hiking, backpacking, camping, wilderness, Duckabush, wildflowers

03/28/2021

03/18/2021

This beautiful waterfall sits nestled on the Hood Canal, and it doesn't take a hefty hike to reach it.

03/11/2021

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03/07/2021

03/07/2021

The last twelve months have presented challenges that many of us would never before have imagined in our quiet comfortable lives. As spring merges into summer and a light emerges at the end of this dark tunnel – we are dealing with the realization that things may never be what they once were. It's...

03/06/2021

02/24/2021

Wild Steelheaders United ambassador Lee Geist shares his history with Hood Canal steelhead and dives into some of the issues impeding their recovery…