re: Olympic National Park

If you are looking for interesting towns to check out, I would recommend Port Townsend. Probably the most scenic town out of the 3 towns on the Straight of Juan de Fuca - Port Angeles/Sequim/Port Townsend.

Port Townsend is surrounded by water on 3 sides and has an "Uptown" and a "Downtown". Uptown is on the cliffs overlooking downtown, which is on the water.

There are lots of gorgeous buildings were built there in the 1870's and 1880's, as people anticipated that Port Townsend would be the end point for the railroad line coming up from California. Plans changed and the railroad ended up going to Seattle. The rest, as they say, is history.

Port Townsend became a ghost town, of sorts, and a lot of the beautiful homes that were built there were abandoned. Sometime in the 1970's, people figured out that those old homes could be renovated and turned into B and B's, and Port Townsend made a comeback. A lot of the waterfront buildings are now restaurants, bars, breweries, and shops. Pretty cool place, and the views have it all - water, mountains, etc.