Sol Duc Valley News Today

Washington State boasts four incredible destinations — Seattle, the San Juan Islands, Olympic Peninsula and Mount Rainier — that you can visit on a single road trip.

Readers discuss an essay by Carole King calling for a ban on commercial logging in national forests. Also: Doppelgängers; cultural exchange with Russia; death row pardons.

What to do, where to hike, and where to stay in the country's fifth most-visited national park.

The 11 best hikes in Olympic National Park Lonely Planet Editors about 13 hours ago Simply by virtue of its name Olympic National Park conjures up a sense of mythological grandeur, named for the mountain which the ancient Greeks believed was home to a pantheon of gods. The Washingtonian version doesnt disappoint, full of towering rock talluses, moss-strewn trees and wild, rushing rivers that wind their way to the vast maw of the Pacific.  If youre itching to experience everything Olympic Nat...