Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Olympic Peninsula &
Washington Coast
Why Go?
The Olympic Peninsula is an unblemished wilderness of the highest order, with an interior
redolent of a unicorn fantasy novel and an end-of-the-continent coastline that makes Big
Sur look positively calm. Then there's the precipitation. While Seattleites whine about a
little winter drizzle, the Hoh Rain Forest is drowning in up to 200in of rain a year. There's
an upside to all this water, of course; it's green here, a thousand verdant shades of it if you
stare hard enough. And it's virgin too. Untouched in over a millennium lie sapphire lakes,
rarely climbed mountains, and ancient cedar and spruce trees older than most of Europe's
medieval castles. It took a lucrative series of vampire novels to put the Olympic Peninsula
on the world's radar, but Twilight is only 1% of what this wild, fog-shrouded landmass is
about.
When to Go
Mar Port Townsend's unique Victorian Days festival.
Jul & Aug Best hiking opportunities and least chance of rain.
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