|
|
Article: WASHINGTON'S WILDS THE TERRAIN IS DIVERSE, THE HUMAN IMPRINT MINIMAL AT OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK.(Travel)
- Article from:
- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- December 15, 2002
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 Daily News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: Story by Eric Noland Travel Editor
OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK, Wash. - Driftwood logs stretch out like hibernating beasts on a pebbly, fog-shrouded shoreline.
A rain forest is resplendent in a raiment of green - the ground thick with ferns and shrubs, and moss dripping from tree limbs.
Mountains soar to serrated peaks, encrusted with glacial bowls, and in the steep alpine meadows you'll be humming ``The Sound of Music'' against your will.
Remarkably, all three of these worlds can be found in a single national park in the northwestern-most corner of the continental United States. In only 1,442 square miles, Olympic National Park ...