Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Why You Should Visit The Olympic National Park Anytime

By Iva Cannon


There quite a number of parts of the world. But one place you need to visit is the Olympic National Park locates in the United States of America. This place is beautiful, and it is in the state of Washington on the Olympic Peninsula. The area is divided into four major areas known as the Pacific coastline, the rain forest with moderate temperatures, the alpine and the eastern side with forests.

Pacific coast which is known to have sandy beaches and rugged. This region is located near the forest which is the adjacent side. It is a place that stretches around sixty miles and also has native communities living on these two ends. These two rivers are the Hoh River with has the Hoh communities. While the other end there are the Quileute people, who stay at the Quileute River. This is one place that if you visit you will enjoy its rich history that is clearly shown in the wilderness and at the coastline which is a stretch of about 20 miles.

There are few beaches across the world that has sand, but this region coastline has enough sand. They are also covered with the bush undergrowth, slippery footing and misty rainfall weather. The terrain is accessible not like the other parts of this beautiful national park that has difficult terrain. You need to visit this place to enjoy the true definition of a beautiful scenery at the natural vegetation that leaves many asking for more.

The thick groves on the adjacent side of the coastline often fall near the Hoh River. You will easily bump on dead heads, eroded natural timber when you walk in this place. President Franklin Roosevelt once proposed that the two areas; coastal areas section and parkland, be connected, so as to complement each other.

The Olympic mountain is known to be a product of wedges of the Juan De Fuca Plate. It is a non-volcanic mount that contain massive snow that interesting for tourists to see. The glaciers also cover an approximate height of over five kilometers.

The mountains are a product of the accretionary wedge related to the subduction Zone of Juan De Fuca Plate. Mount Olympus is a non-volcanic mountain that has a large amount of snow that would be interesting to watch. It also has many glaciers that cover a height of about five kilometers.

Some other notable features include temperate forest on the western side. This side receives an annual precipitation of around 350mm to about 400mm annually. It experiences more rainfall than any other place in the area. The forest has coniferous trees as the dominant tree within the forest.

When you look at the ecology of the area, you will find quite a number of unique animals and plants. They have native animals and plants with sizable populations of black bears and black-tailed deer. Biologists carry out a number of studies in this region on the evolutionary traits of plants and animals.

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