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National Parks Traveler Checklist: Olympic National Park

Olympic National Park, on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula, offers a little bit of everything for the visitor: Pacific coast beaches, lush rain forests, and rugged mountains. It’s a large park with plenty to do, and the Traveler’s Checklist can help you plan your trip to make the most of your time exploring this park.

Photography In The National Parks: Water, Water, Everywhere …

National parks and protected areas are brimming over with water scenes, from glaciers to snowy landscapes to ponds to rivers to misty mornings. Contributing photographer Rebecca Latson provides tips and techniques for how to capture those myriad forms of water (glaciers, snow, ponds, streams, rivers, mist, clouds) in a composition.

A Toddler's Joy Over Gulf Islands National Seashore

Waves crashed on the sandy shore of Santa Rosa Sound, wind whipping off the water and flinging my hair in all directions. One family had set up their chairs on the narrow strip of beach between the sound and the trees of the Gulf Islands National Seashore’s Naval Live Oaks area, but with a three-year-old and 18-month-old among our party, we would not be joining them.