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3 unusual facts about Olympic National Park


Badger Pass Ski Area

Badger Pass is one of only three lift serviced ski areas operating in a US National Park (Hurricane Ridge Ski and Snowboard Area in Olympic National Park and Boston Mills/Brandywine Ski Resort in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park are the others).

Olympic National Park

Mosses coat the bark of these trees and even drip down from their branches in green, moist tendrils.

Student Conservation Association

In 1957, the Student Conservation Program (forerunner to SCA) had two separate programs in Grand Teton National Park and Olympic National Park.


Rosalie Edge

In addition to founding the ECC and Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Edge led the national grassroots campaigns to create Olympic National Park (1938) and Kings Canyon National Park (1940), and successfully lobbied Congress to purchase about 8,000 acres of old-growth sugar pines on the perimeter of Yosemite National Park that were to be logged.


see also

Tubalcain

Tubal Cain mine, abandoned copper mine in Olympic National Park in the US state of Washington