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A Olympic Peninsula is the big arm of land inside western Washington state that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle. These are bounded on the west per Pacific Ocean, the northward per Strait of Juan de Fuca, and a east by Puget Sound and Hood Canal. Tatoosh Island, the westernmost point in the contiguous United States, is off a coast of the Peninsula, & the Peninsula is personal to Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Olympic National Park, the Olympic Mountains, and a Hoh and Quinault rain forests. From either Olympia, the state capital, U.S. Highway 101 runs along the Olympic Peninsula's eastern, northern, and western shorelines. Streams, lakes, and wells throughout on the peninsula include Lake Aldwell, Lake Crescent, Lake Mills, Lake Ozette, Lake Pleasant, Lake Quinault, and Lake Sutherland, and its streams, lakes, and wells throughout include a Bogachiel, the Dungeness, the Elwha, the Queets, the Quillayute, the Quinault, the Skokomish, and a Sol Duc. A Peninsula is besides page to several state & national parks, including Anderson Lake, Bogachiel, Dosewallips, Fort Flagler, Fort Worden, Lake Cushman, Mystery Bay, Old Fort Townsend, Potlatch, Seqium Bay, Shine Tidelands, and Triton Cove State Parks, Olympic National Park, and a Olympic National Forest. Clallam and Jefferson Counties when well as a northern area of Grays Harbor and Mason Counties are on the peninsula.
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Olympic National Forest 632,300 acres of national forest land make up the Pacific and Hood Canal ranger districts bordering Olympic National Park. Olympic Peninsula Guide Site includes an extensive collection of useful maps, photos, and business listings. Peninsula Daily News Calendar, classifieds, and weather for the northern Olympic Peninsula, plus some abbreviated stories from the print newspaper. Marrowstone Island Southeast of Port Townsend, the island is home to the town of Nordland, a state park, and small town pleasures in a natural setting. Olympic Music Festival From late June through Labor Day, chamber music is performed every Saturday and Sunday afternoon in a barn. Includes concert excerpts, lists of artists, and online ticket purchasing. Artists of the Olympic Peninsula Directory of Olympic Peninsula artists organized by type of art. West Olympic Council for the Arts Promotes visual and performing arts on the West Olympic Peninsula. Includes programs and events, news, and membership information. Olympic Peninsula Community, weather, and travel links, interactive calendar, points of interest. Olympic West Arttrek A collection of 22 gift shops, galleries and studios across the West Side of the Olympic Peninsula. Olympic Peninsula Audubon Society Meetings, field trips, projects, and local birding. |
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