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Olympic Peninsula & Washington Coast Highlights
Thinking you've uncovered a real-life hobbit in the moss-covered
Hoh Rain
Forest
(
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)
.
Finding solitude, but no vampires, on a mist-enshrouded beach at
La Push (
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Driving (or hiking) miles to enjoy Northwestern cuisine and a roaring fireplace at
Lake Quinault Lodge
(
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)
.
Debating whether to don kayaking gear or a Victorian bowler hat in nostalgia-ob-
sessed
Port Townsend (
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)
.
Drinking coffee that's good enough to wake a zombie in small but hip
Olympia
(
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)
.
Trying to evoke the sense of accomplishment felt by Lewis and Clark on the
Long
Beach Discovery Trail (
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)
.
Visiting one of the nation's best
Native American museums
(
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) in Neah
Bay.
OLYMPIA
POP 47,266
Small in size but big in clout, state capital Olympia is a political, musical and outdoor
powerhouse that punches well above its 47,000-strong population. Look no further than
the streetside buskers on 4th Ave, the smartly attired bureaucrats marching across the
lawns of the resplendent state legislature or the Gore-Tex-clad outdoor fiends overnight-
ing before rugged sorties into the Olympic Mountains. Truth is, despite its Classical
Greek-sounding name, creative, out-of-the-box Olympia is anything but ordinary. Pro-
gressive Evergreen college has long lent the place an artsy turn (creator of
The Simpsons
Matt Groening studied here), while the dive bars and secondhand guitar shops of down-
town provided an original pulpit for riot-grrrl music and grunge.
Sights & Activities
Washington State Capitol
LANDMARK
( 8am-4:30pm)
Looking like a huge Grecian temple, the Capitol complex dom-
inates the town. Its beautiful setting, in a 30-acre park overlooking Capitol Lake with the
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