Olympic National Park

Fun Facts about Olympic National Park (https://www.doi.gov/blog/11-fun-facts-about-mount-rainier-national-park)

  • Olympic National Park is 1,441 square miles with 73 miles of wilderness coast

  • There are over 3,000 miles of rivers and streams

  • The park has 60 named glaciers

  • There are 16 kinds of endemic animals and 8 kinds of endemic plants.

  • Twenty reptile and amphibians species make their home in Olympic Park

  • Olympic’s Hoh Rain Forest receives over 12 feet of rain a year

  • Lake Crescent is a pristine lake in the park and visitors can see over 60 feet down into the lake.

  • The elevation of Olympic National Park is 4,147 ft and the area around Olympic National Park has an elevation range from -212 ft to 1753 ft

The distance between Stillwater, MN and Olympic National Park is 1,464 miles

At Olympic National Park I will be camping on Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S’Klallam, Port Gamble S’Klallam, Skokomish, Quinault, Hoh, Quileute, and Makah land. I give thanks for their presence here since time immemorial and honor all my Indigenous siblings who have and continue to call this land their home.

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