Forks, Washington and Olympic National Park

Forks is a small little town known for vampires, Bigfoot, and rain. It is one of the rainiest towns in the US. The vampire popularity is because the fictional Twilight book/movie series was based in the town of Forks. For the big Twilight fans there is even a museum with movie props in town, we skipped that so no reviews here, haha! Although vampires are not up our alley, Mia did enjoy the Bigfoot swag in town. Apparently this area has a lot of claimed sightings. 

Olympic National Park is our next stop on our Washington tour. This park is huge so we split it up into two locations. First stop is Forks, WA. We stayed in a rental very close to the elk conservancy, great location and amenities. At this stop we were able to see some ginormous trees, mossy rainforest, and explored multiple beaches at low tide and a cool sunset!

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Worlds Largest Spruce Tree-right on Lake Quinault is this quick stop. 

Hoh Rainforest-There was a little wait (maybe 15 minutes) to get into this entrance because the parking lot is so small. Definitely worth the wait to walk the the Spruce Nature Trail and the Hall of Mosses Trail. Very cool to walk among the giant mossy trees. 

The Beaches

Ruby Beach-We had great luck tide pooling here, low tide is a must. Sea stars were everywhere around the rocks by the big island. Got lucky that low tide just happened to be around 1 pm this day, which was the time we were driving through the area.

La Push-great spot for sunset

Rialto Beach Hole-in-the-Wall-This is about a 3 mile hike on the rocky/sandy beach. Definitely a must to go at low tide. We arranged our day around low tide to make this hike. This was one of the busiest spots on our trip due to the fact that everyone has to go at low tide.