Olympic Peninsula
Travel Guide
Pacific Coast Highway Travel reviews an Olympic Peninsula
Travel Guide published by the Beautiful Pacific Northwest website.
This review is of the original edition but there is now a newer updated edition available on Amazon.
The Olympic Peninsula is one of the most beautiful and
stunning parts of the Pacific Coast Highway drive, and for many people it marks
the start or end of the marvellous road trip along the USA's Pacific Coast. It's
covered in depth on the Beautiful Pacific Northwest
website, and now the publisher of that site, Karen Patry, has published her own
comprehensive guide to the region, which includes the Olympic National Park.
Photos from the Olympic Peninsula Travel Guide
When we say comprehensive, we mean it! The guide runs to 287
pages and covers everything from hotel and restaurant recommendations to what
to do if you ever encounter a bear.
There's a wealth of wildlife features, which we certainly appreciated, covering such creatures as marmots, elk, and bald eagles. Another section describes the flowers you're likely to find, and there's a section trees too.
Praise For The Book
Olympic Peninsula Travel Guide: Planning
The travel guide begins with a lengthy and helpful section
on planning your trip to the Olympic Peninsula. The author helps you plan trips
from one day upwards, and depending on what interests you most. They're very
practical plans, assessing how long different activities will take you to do,
so they're realistic as to what you can actually fit into each day.
This is followed by a more detailed planning section, which includes chapters on such topics as the best time to visit the Olympic Peninsula, a list of festivals, where you'll find campgrounds, details on professional tour companies, and many other topics besides.
Part Three then covers General Travel Information - maps, information centers, whether to rent an RV, airport car rental options, using the local ferries, and so on.
Sample map from the Olympic Peninsula Travel Guide
Part Four is the main part of the Olympic Peninsula Travel
Guide, with over 200 pages of detailed coverage on anywhere you're remotely
likely to want to visit. Popular places like Port Townsend get plenty of hotel
and restaurant recommendations, for example.
They're not lengthy write-ups but they're certainly enough to help you make your mind up, and they come with all the practical information you'll need, including opening hours. The attractions and activities in each place also get full coverage.
Sample page from the Olympic Peninsula Travel Guide
For Forks, by way of an example, you also get weather
coverage, the history of the area, what the town is like today, a piece about
the lumber industry, and the town's Twilight tours. The writing is engaging and
interesting, and if you're planning your PCH road trip then buying this book
beforehand might just persuade you to linger a little longer in this
exceptional part of the USA. Highly recommended.
Sample page from the Olympic Peninsula Travel Guide
Olympic National Park Itinerary
If you're planning a trip to the Olympic National Park, we strongly recommend this trip-planning guide and itinerary from Just Go Travel Studios. Click on the image to learn more about what it contains.
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