• Illustrated cover in a vintage poster style: a sunlit subalpine meadow dotted with white wildflowers and edged with dark firs slopes down from Hurricane Ridge toward deep forested valleys and a long skyline of jagged, snow-covered Olympic Mountains under a clear teal sky. Title: Olympic National Park: History, Highlights, and One- to Three-Day Adventures, by Brian D. Russ.
  • Sample page from the Olympic National Park guide, wildlife chapter. Entry: Pacific banana slug, with how to recognize it, where and when to see it, and a photograph.
  • Sample page from the Olympic National Park guide, a day itinerary with times, distances, and a photograph: Lake Crescent from Mount Storm King.
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Brian Russ Guides

Olympic National Park: History, Highlights, and One- to Three-Day Adventures

Olympic National Park: History, Highlights, and One- to Three-Day Adventures

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Olympic National Park gives you glaciers, rain forest, and wild Pacific beaches in one trip, if you know how to fit them together. This guide helps you plan one, two, or three days, from the meadows of Hurricane Ridge to the tidepools of the coast, at the pace that suits you.

What's inside

  • Nine ready-made itineraries: one, two, and three days, each at easy, moderate, and strenuous effort, from Hurricane Ridge, Lake Crescent, and Sol Duc Falls to the Hall of Mosses, the Hoh River Trail, Rialto Beach and Hole-in-the-Wall, Ruby Beach, Quinault, and the Ozette Loop, each with a weather backup
  • The peninsula's history, from its first hunters and the eight Tribes whose homelands surround the park to the explorers, homesteaders, the 1938 park, and the removal of the Elwha River dams
  • Sightseeing highlights all the way around the park, with notes on Tribal lands and fees, long drives, and the Hoh River bridge
  • A wildlife chapter profiling 12 commonly seen animals, from Roosevelt elk and the Olympic marmot to banana slugs, ochre sea stars, and bald eagles, each with a photograph and notes on where and when to look
  • Trip planning for seasons, roads, fees, camping, lodges, tides and coastal safety, pets, and accessibility
  • 33 photographs and 6 orientation maps

What you'll receive

  • EPUB ebook (Olympic_National_Park_Brian_D_Russ.epub, about 13 MB) for Apple Books, Kobo, Google Play Books, and most e-reader apps. Kindle readers can send it to their library with Amazon's Send to Kindle.
  • PDF (Olympic_National_Park_Brian_D_Russ.pdf, 100 pages including the cover, about 27 MB) for any device, and for printing pages. It opens on the illustrated cover.

Your download link arrives by email right after purchase.

Edition

First illustrated edition, October 2026, with research completed October 2026. Roads, trails, and services change from year to year, so check the park's current alerts and road conditions before you travel.

Pack a tide table: on Olympic's coast, the tide decides where you can walk.

This is an independent guide. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Park Service.
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