Olympic Peninsula

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The Olympic Peninsula is shown in red on a map of the western United States

Approximate political map of the Olympic Peninsula

Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary

Elwha River

The Olympic Peninsula is the large arm of land in western Washington state that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the east by Puget Sound and Hood Canal. Tatoosh Island, the westernmost point in the contiguous United States, is off the coast of the Peninsula, and the Peninsula is home to Port Angeles, Port Townsend, Olympic National Park, the Olympic Mountains, and the Hoh and Quinault rain forests.

From Olympia, the state capital, U.S. Route 101 runs along the Olympic Peninsula's eastern, northern, and western shorelines.

Lakes on the peninsula include Lake Aldwell, Lake Crescent, Lake Mills, Lake Ozette, Lake Pleasant, Lake Quinault, and Lake Sutherland, and its rivers include the Bogachiel, the Dungeness, the Elwha, the Queets, the Quillayute, the Quinault, the Skokomish, and the Sol Duc.

The Peninsula is also home to many state and national parks, including Anderson Lake, Bogachiel, Dosewallips, Fort Flagler, Fort Worden, Lake Cushman, Mystery Bay, Old Fort Townsend, Potlatch, Sequim Bay, Shine Tidelands, and Triton Cove State Parks, Olympic National Park, and the Olympic National Forest.

Clallam and Jefferson Counties as well as the northern parts of Grays Harbor and Mason Counties are on the peninsula.

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