Olympic National Park

Location: Washington

Year Established: 1938

Area: 922,650.86 acres (3,733.8 km2)

Annual Visitors: 3,243,872

Situated on the Olympic Peninsula, this park straddles a diversity of ecosystems from Pacific shoreline to temperate rainforests to the alpine slopes of Mount Olympus. The scenic Olympic Mountains overlook the Hoh Rain Forest and Quinault Rain Forest, the wettest area in the continental United States.