Let your arms do some of the work. The Olympic Peninsula is a vast scenic wilderness covering nearly 900,000 acres and encompassing unspoiled Pacific coastline, lush, green rain forests, numerous lakes, rivers, streams, waterfalls and hot springs. The glacier-clad rugged mountains in this isolated peninsula rise from the sea creating a craggy landscape like nowhere else in the world.
Hurricane Ridge runs east to west on the northern side of the Olympic peninsula.
The mountains in the peninsula are not very high. The tallest, Mt. Olympus is only about 8000 ft. But since they are located so close to the Pacific coast, they block air masses that move in from the ocean resulting in heavy rain and snow. Hundreds of miles of trails run inside the park. Trails that start from Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center offer magnificent views of the glacier-covered peaks of the mountains, the subalpine tundra meadows and the Pacific coastline.