The 922,000-acre Olympic National Park was designated an International Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1976 and recognized as a World Heritage Site in 1981. The Olympic Forest Reserve, which included most of the forested land on the Olympic Peninsula,..

Opened in 1981, a small marine lab and teaching facility for Peninsula College contains open tanks filled with local marine life (including an octopus); a touch tank where visitors can stroke starfish, sea anemones and sea cucumbers; and a new jellyf..

Located on the road to Hurricane Ridge, the main visitor center is the best place to stock up on information about the sites in Olympic National Park. In addition to providing free maps and brochures, the center has a 12min slide show introducing vis..

A small gem of Northwest architecture, the Fine Arts Center occupies a semicircular Modernist house designed by Seattle architect Paul Hayden Kirk and built in 1951 for Esther Barrows Webster, a local artist who became editor of the town's newspaper...