Winter, the season with cold, snow, short days and long nights, can be a challenging season to explore the National Park System. Yet it also holds surprises that reveal themselves in shimmering lights darting across the night sky, in tracks of what passed the night before across the snowscape, and in congregations of wildlife.
In addition to providing a number of hiking trails and plenty of photo ops, Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park also offeres opportunities to ski, snowboard, and snowshoe during the winter.
It’s time for the next national parks quiz and trivia piece. This particular edition focuses on Mount Rainier, Olympic, and North Cascades national parks, all located in Washington State. Just how much do you know about these Pacific Northwest national parks? Test your parks knowledge and learn a little at the same time.
National Park Service units are not immune from ghosts and ghouls and things that go bump in the night. In honor of Halloween, here’s a quiz and trivia piece that’s all about those ghosty ghoulies and their associated protected lands. You might learn a little something as your spine tingles and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. BOO!!
As nice as it might be, the federal government does not fully fund all the needs and challenges the National Park Service faces. And that's where friends groups, cooperating associations, and even for-profit businesses come into play. Some of those organizations even help National Parks Traveler bring news and features about the park system to these pages every day of the year.
It's time to test your national parks knowledge and learn a little bit of national parks trivia, too, with the latest National Parks Quiz and Trivia piece (#14). See how much you know about the nation's protected lands before checking the answers at the bottom of the piece.
A program to relocate non-native mountain goats from Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest has ended with nearly 400 goats were removed, though only 325 made it to the northern Cascade Mountains in Washington. The others either died in the capture and transport effort, were euthanized, were lethally culled, or placed in zoos.
Marymere Falls is reached by a popular, 1.7-mile roundtrip hike beginning behind the Storm King Ranger Station, not far from Lake Crescent Lodge in Olympic National Park.
The last round of mountain goat removal from Olympic National Park in Washington is scheduled to begin July 27, with lethal removal to begin in the fall.