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Olympic and Mt St Helens Road Trip
This road trip includes parks: Olympic National Park, Mount Rainier National Park, Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument and more!
Olympic offers glacier capped mountains, wild Pacific coast and magnificent stands of old-growth forests, including temperate rain forests. About 95% of the park is designated wilderness, which further protects these diverse and spectacular ecosystems.
On May 18, 1980, at 8:32 Sunday morning, Mount Saint Helens erupted. Shaken by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, the north face of the mountain collapsed in an astounding rock debris avalanche. Almost 230 square miles of forest was blown down or buried beneath volcanic deposits almost instantly. A mushroom shaped column of ash rose thousands of feet in the air and drifted downwind, turning day into night over eastern Washington and beyond.
Mount Rainier was established in 1899. The 235,625 acres includes Mount Rainier at 14,410'. This is an active volcano encasing over 35 square miles of snow and ice.
From Rain forests to volcanoes, Olympic to Mount St Helens to Mount Rainier, there's plenty for any park enthusiast to enjoy. Use this self-guided road trip to help you plan your adventure around the state of Washington.
You should check ahead of time regarding potential road closures and/or construction. Please note, some of our road trips do take you along some dirt roads. Please check a map so that you can alter your route accordingly. All our road trips are designed to be helpful guides to help you build an adventure to suit your needs. We don't recommend specific mileage, nor where exactly to stay due to everyones different needs for driving mileage, etc. We recommend plotting out your route on Google Maps and using ours as guides. Then add or remove locations to build the road trip of your dreams!
Maine ocean islands provide the only nesting sites for Atlantic puffins in the United States. Eastern Egg Rock in the midcoast region, Seal Island and Matinicus Rock at the mouth of Penobscot Bay, and Machias Seal Island and Petit Manan Island off the downeast coast provide habitat for more than 4,000 puffins each summer.