Olympic Peninsula
New to Olympic?
Here is the shape of the place: what is within reach of Port Angeles, who to check before you drive, and what changes with the season. We track all of it daily so you do not have to learn it the hard way.
What is within reach
We currently list 628 places in Olympic — 249 campgrounds, 214 parks, 101 trailheads, 28 viewpoints, 21 boat launches and 15 nature reserves.
- campgrounds 249
- parks 214
- trailheads 101
- viewpoints 28
- boat launches 21
- nature reserves 15
The public land
- Olympic National Park — 8 current notices
- 50 federal recreation facilities campgrounds, day-use areas and trailheads on Recreation.gov
- 39 Washington DNR recreation sites
Before you drive
- Road closures and cameras come from WSDOT .
- No mountain pass sits between Port Angeles and most of this list.
- Wildfire smoke and heat advisories arrive as National Weather Service alerts, and in this region they are a summer fact rather than an emergency. We show them at the top of the Olympic page whenever any are live.
The water
- Ferry terminals you will use: Port Townsend, Coupeville, Kingston. Drive-up car deck space is the thing that catches newcomers out on a summer weekend, so we show live sailings and remaining spaces rather than just a timetable.
- Tides are read from Port Angeles. Heights are above MLLW, and a minus tide is the difference between a beach and a mudflat worth walking.
What we check for you, daily
The forecast and the hour-by-hour wind, active advisories and closures, road conditions, tide tables, live ferry sailings, and what is actually happening this week. It is rebuilt every morning, and if the data goes stale we stop showing it rather than let you plan around last week's weather.
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