• Olympic: Three Parks in One

    Olympic

    National Park Washington

  • Olympic Hot Springs Road Closed

    The Elwha Valley's Olympic Hot Springs Road is closed to public entry beyond the Altair Campground during removal of the Glines Canyon Dam. Olympic Hot Springs is not accessible from the Elwha.

Invasive Plant Resources

Canada Thistle & Tansy

NPS Exotic Plant Management Team

Purple Canada thistle and yellow tansy ragwort are invasive plants that grow in disturbed lands.

The sources listed below have information
on invasive exotic plants and ways to
stop their spread.

More information on Olympic’s website:

Help Stop the Spread of Invasive Species
Nonnative Species
Invasive Exotic Plants
Leave-No-Trace
Volunteer Opportunities

 

Reporting Sightings within Olympic National Park:

If you can positively identify invasive exotic plants, report when and where you see the weeds to the nearest ranger station or visitor center.

 
English Ivy

NPS Volunteer Office

Park staff and volunteers work to restore forested areas by pulling up English ivy.

Olympic Peninsula
Noxious Weed Control Boards:

Washington State NWCB 
Clallam County NWCB
Jefferson County NWCB

Other sources:

NPS: Weeds Gone Wild
NPS: Invasive Plant Management
National Invasive Species Council
USDA APHIS: Plant Pest Program
USDA Forest Service: Invasive Plants
Center for Invasive Plant Management

Some of the invasive plant species information on this website came from “Management of Exotic Plants in Olympic National Park” by Richard W. Olson, Jr., Edward G. Schreiner, and Lance Parker.

Did You Know?

Mt. Olympus in winter

That Mount Olympus receives over 200 inches of precipitation each year and most of that falls as snow? At 7,980 feet, Mount Olympus is the highest peak in Olympic National Park and has the third largest glacial system in the contiguous U.S.