To protect declining populations of wild steelhead, Olympic National Park is closing the Queets, Salmon and Quinault Rivers to sport fishing on November 27, 2023.
After a year full of challenges, Olympic National Park's Hurricane Ridge Road and recreation area will open for the winter season on the day after Thanksgiving.
A rock climber high on the iconic granite walls of Yosemite Valley. River rafters floating the Colorado River as it runs through the Grand Canyon. A solar powered radio antenna array attached to the spillway of a former dam in Olympic National Park. What do these things have in common? They are all parts of exciting new ways USGS and National Park Service scientists have been studying bats in national parks.
The Olympic Peninsula of Washington state is a wild and wooly place, even now in the 21st century. That’s no doubt largely because the heart of the peninsula is taken up by Olympic National Park, a more than 900,000-acre jigsaw puzzle of glaciers and peaks, rainforests, rivers, and Pacific coastline.
Bruised by a past of logging and dam building, the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state has demonstated its resilience time and again, and while climate change likely will inflict more bruises on the peninsula and its national park, Tim McNulty is confident it will endure.
Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park in Washington will temporarily close to the public so removal of the remains of the Hurricane Ridge Day Lodge, which burned to the ground back in May, can be removed.