Hurricane Ridge - Olympic National Park - August 25, 2021
We took off for Olympic National Park today beginning with a visit to the Olympic National Park Visitor’s Center in Port Angeles where I got a new national park magnet for the collection. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 restrictions, the national park visitor’s orientation movie was not being shown, but we were able to get a new map, park newsletter and a park magnet.
We continued on the Peabody Creek Trail right from the ONP Visitor’s Center. It is both a 1/2 mile loop trail and a 2.7 mile out and back trail along the Peabody Creek. It is one of very few dog-friendly trails in the ONP. We opted for the shorter loop trail because we weren’t expecting the availability of the longer trail and were rewarded with a dense, Pacific Northwest rainforest experience …
Then we drove up the Hurricane Ridge Road through the ONP to Hurricane Ridge where we had a picnic lunch and watched the numerous visitors from around the world coming to see Mt. Olympus and the surrounding peaks and disappearing glaciers.
Simply majestic scenery … so proud of our country’s effort to preserve wilderness for now and for future generations!
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