Trip to Olympic National Park, Mt. Rainer, Bellingham
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Trip to Olympic National Park, Mt. Rainer, Bellingham
I will be traveling in July and want to accomplish a lot in one week. Any recommendation for a safe, affordable place to stay in Olympic National Park/Port Angeles area? Is it feasible to drive from Tumwater to Port Angeles in one day while exploring the national park?
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Not really. It is a minimum of 4 hours driving time, and that is assuming you don't get behind slow cars and don't stop to see anything. ONP is different from many parks in that there isn't much to see right from the highway. You need to get off and take side roads, sometimes quite a ways, to see the real beauty the park has to offer. If you could stay at least one night along the way, that would make it much more enjoyable and allow you to see what the park is all about. Somewhere around Kalaloch would break up the drive nicely.
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Were you planning on taking a car ferry from Port Angeles to Victoria or a ferry from Bellingham on the Alaska Marine Highway?
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