• 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.

Park Newsletter October 27 2006

man with backpack standing near many filled garbage bags on ocean beach
Doug Thayer, an SCA crew member from Davis, California, is loaded up and ready to carry debris off the coast.
 

Student Conservation Association Crew Hauls Over a Ton of Debris Off the Olympic Coast

Nearly a ton and a half of trash and debris has been hauled off the Olympic wilderness coast, thanks to members of the Student Conservation Association (SCA). The five-person crew recently spent three weeks carrying loads of marine debris from remote beaches to roadways. In all, they removed 2,450 pounds of debris from park beaches!

 

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Over 500 Comments on Park GMP
Park staff are now reading and analyzing the 500 public comments that were submitted on the Olympic National Park Draft General Management Plan (Draft GMP).

Comments will be addressed in the final GMP, scheduled for release in late 2007.

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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.