This route started near Olympia, WA. From there we took highway 101 up and around the Olympic peninsula and then on down the coast. Very little time was spent inside Olympic National Park due to the fact we were driving a 26 foot motorhome. One of our first stop was at Lake Crescent which has a really nice lodge at one end of the lake. We camped at South Beach Campground which overlooks the Pacific Ocean and a rocky beach. This campground was expectedly crowded and has an odd system of reserving the sites (no reservations). We had to wait until the second night there to get a “front row” spot.
Other highlights included a hike through the Quinault Rainforest and a night at Cape Disappointment State Park. This place had one of the largest campgrounds I had ever seen and it was actually pretty nice. I should have taken more photos of the sites and the setup. Cape disappointment has a nice, large beach and a cool lighthouse that can be hiked to or accessed by vehicle.
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