Journey along Olympic's rugged 73-mile Pacific coastline, uncovering its dramatic geology, resilient wildlife, and intertidal wonders.
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Seventy Three Miles of Raw Pacific
This is Coastal Chronicles: Where Land Meets Sea, a series exploring the wild Pacific coastline of Olympic National Park, from its sculpted sea stacks to the creatures…
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Ancient Towers Rising from the Surf
Some of these sea stacks stood as connected headlands thousands of years ago, before relentless waves carved away the softer surrounding rock and left behind pillars of…
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Tiny Worlds Between the Tides
Olympic's tidepools function as some of the most densely packed ecosystems on Earth, with hundreds of species crammed into pools sometimes no larger than a bathtub.
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Gray Whales Follow an Ancient Highway
Every spring, some twenty thousand gray whales pass these waters on one of the longest migrations of any mammal — a ten-thousand-mile journey from breeding lagoons in…
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Where the Forest Meets the Storm
Sitka spruce along Olympic's coast can live over seven hundred years, yet many grow twisted and stunted, shaped by relentless salt-laden winds into forms called…
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Two Dams Down, A River Reborn
In 2014, the last chunks of concrete from two century-old dams were pulled from the Elwha River, completing the largest dam removal project in U.S. history.
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