Olympic Peninsula
The Olympic Peninsula is the large arm of land in
western Washington state that lies across
Puget Sound from
Seattle. It is bounded on the west by the
Pacific Ocean, the north by the
Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the east by
Puget Sound and
Hood Canal.
Tatoosh Island, the westernmost point in the contiguous
United States, is off the coast of the Peninsula. The Peninsula is home to
Port Angeles,
Port Townsend,
Olympic National Park, the
Olympic Mountains.
Encyclopedia
The
Olympic Peninsula is the large arm of land in
western Washington state that lies across
Puget Sound from
Seattle. It is bounded on the west by the
Pacific Ocean, the north by the
Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the east by
Puget Sound and
Hood Canal.
Tatoosh Island, the westernmost point in the contiguous
United States, is off the coast of the Peninsula. The Peninsula is home to
Port Angeles,
Port Townsend,
Olympic National Park, the
Olympic Mountains. Of the handful of
temperate rain forests in the world the Olympic Peninsula is home to the
Hoh, Queets, and Quinault
rain forests.
From
Olympia, the state capital,
U.S. Route 101 runs along the Olympic Peninsula's eastern, northern, and western shorelines.
Lakes on the peninsula include Lake Aldwell,
Lake Crescent,
Lake Cushman, Lake Mills, Lake Ozette, Lake Pleasant,
Lake Quinault, and Lake Sutherland, and its rivers include the Bogachiel, the Dungeness, the
Elwha, the Queets, the Quillayute, the Quinault, the Skokomish, and the Sol Duc.
The Peninsula is also home to many state and national parks, including Anderson Lake, Bogachiel, Dosewallips, Fort Flagler, Fort Worden, Lake Cushman, Mystery Bay, Old Fort Townsend, Potlatch, Sequim Bay, Shine Tidelands, and Triton Cove State Parks;
Olympic National Park; and the Olympic National Forest. Within the Olympic National Forest there are five designated
wilderness areas: The Brothers,
Buckhorn,
Colonel Bob, Mt. Skokomish, and Wonder Mountain.
Clallam and Jefferson Counties as well as the northern parts of Grays Harbor and Mason Counties are on the peninsula.
Politics
It is represented in the U.S Congress by
Norman D. Dicks.
Cities and towns
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