Local Gems - A Local's Travel Guide
Recommended Destinations
17 mile Drive to The Heart of Olympics. Lots of wildlife.
Explore Lake Crescent and its clear waters - Go swimming! We do!
Beautiful beach area. Explore Tide pools in low tide
Both are unusual peninsular beaches. Ediz hook is Free. Dungeness requires $3 day pass.
Coastal Beach Access. Nice day trip.
Recommended Eats and Treats
There are many food options, but here's our Favs
Pizza, Lunch and Burgers
Recommended Hiking adventures
Miles in Round Trip.
*Asterisks denotes favorites
Beginner / Easy / Flat
*Marymere Falls (Lake Crescent) 1 mile
*Devil's Punchbowl on Spruce Railroad (Lake Crescent) 2.6 miles
Madison Falls (Elwha -Wheel chair accessible) short walk.
Dungeness Spit Lighthouse (Sequim, check tides) 11 miles
Cape Flattery (Neah Bay) 1.5 miles
Sol Duc Falls (Sol Duc) 1.6 miles
Moderate hikes
*Hurricaine Hill (Hurricaine Ridge in Summer or snow shoe in winter)
Five Mile Island (Hoh Rainforest) flat but rooted 10 miles
Lake Angeles (Hurricaine Ridge) uphill in woods to alpine lake.
Klahane Ridge (Hurricaine Ridge)
Hard Hikes
*Mt. Storm King (Lake Crescent) 4 miles
*Seven Lakes Basin Loop (Sol Duc) 19 miles
Pyramid Peak (Lake Crescent) 7 miles
Lake Ozette Beach Triangle (Lake ozette) 9 miles
Scenic Drives
Cape Flattery (Neah Bay)
Kalaloch (Coastal Beach)
Hurricaine Ridge (Port Angeles)
Ediz Hook (Port Angeles)
Sol Duc River, Hot Springs & Lake Crescent (Lake Crescent)