The Olympic Peninsula is a landmass that protrudes westward from the mainland of Washington State into the Pacific Ocean. It is a vast and rugged area with mountains, forests, and a coastline.

Rescuers haven’t been able to reach the body of an 18-year-old man who died over a week ago at a popular Washington waterfall, rangers said. Recovery efforts for the man’s body at Sol Duc Falls in the ...

Officials said that the body was spotted in Olympic National Park in Washington State on Monday, but that it was pinned behind a surge of water and was hard to reach.

Cherie Gero, left, and the author in Hoh Rain Forest at Olympic National Park in Washington state. (Courtesy of Eileen McCreight) Our readers share tales of their ramblings around the world. Who ...

SEQUIM — Port Angeles author Teresa Schoeffel-Lingvall will sign copies of her book, Images of America: Olympic Hot Springs, this Saturday. She will be at Costco, 955 W. Washington St., from 10:30 a.m ...

Olympic Hot Springs Road inside Olympic National Park will be closed for a month this fall. Olympic National Park crews will begin work Sept. 8, the day after Labor Day weekend.

A mighty river eats what it wants: So it is with the Elwha River, unleashed from its dams and just finished munching the Olympic Hot Springs Road for the second time. The river flooded Nov. 22 and ...

Olympic Hot Springs Road inside Olympic National Park will ... The National Park Service has awarded a $29,767 cooperative agreement to Portland State University for a vegetation inventory map ...

Teams searched Saturday for a 60-year-old man missing in Washington’s Olympic National Park, focusing on an off-trail area where his pack was found. Jim Griffin hasn’t been seen since Monday, ...

Washington state’s last significant spill also occurred on the Olympic Pipeline, a 400-mile interstate pipeline system that runs between Blaine, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. On June 10, 1999, the ...

PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) - A 60-year-old Washington state man has been missing in Olympic National Park since he went on a day hike on Monday. Teams of searchers looked ...

Comments can be submitted online, or mailed or hand-delivered to Olympic National Park, Attn: Superintendent Sarah Creachbaum, Olympic Hot Springs Road Long-Term Access EA, 600 E. Park Ave., Port ...