Three charming little towns near Olympic National Park are within a 30-60 minute drive. Port Angeles, Forks, and Beaver offer restaurants, shopping, and cultural history.

The dining room is named for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who visited the park and ate at the lodge in 1937 (nine months before signing a bill to create Olympic National Park).

Olympic National Park is known as one of the quietest places in the U.S., and it's home to 1 million acres of rainforest. Here's what you need to know before you go.

QUINAULT, Washington – The lakefront lodge is older than the park itself, built in 1926 on the south shore of scenic Lake Quinault. Olympic National Park didn’t come until 12 years later, in ...