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In Western Washington, you'll find the unique Olympic National Park. It finds it's uniqueness in the fact that it's home to multiple ecosystems: a temperate old growth rain forest, the scared HOH rainforest, coastal rocky beaches and dramatic mountain peaks that include Mt Olympus (US edition).  The coastal beaches are filled with towering volcanic rock formations known as sea stacks. Amongst the beaches and stacks you're able to observe life-filled tide pools with Anemones and more! Surrounding these coastal beaches is the moss-covered temperate rainforest. The forest is filled with old and new growth and hundreds of types of mosses...

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If you've seen THAT scene from the 1965 classic, "The Sound of Music," when the young Julie Andrews dances around in the beautiful meadows of the Austria Alps, then you've seen a sneak peak into the beauty that is Mt Rainier National Park.  Nestled in southwest Washington State, Mt Rainier Park is the nation's 5th National Park. It was established in 1899 after John Muir wrote about it's beauty and advocated for it's conservation. The main attraction of the park, Mt Rainier, is a Strato volcano that last erupted about 1,000 years ago. It stands at 14,140 feet tall and has 25...

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7,700 years ago, the volcano sacred to the Native Makalak People, Mt Mazama erupted and collapsed creating Crater Lake. The Makalak, the natives, believed that the eruption and fall was caused by a battle between the spirit of the sky and the spirit of the mountain. Now Crater Lake is protected by a national park of the same name that also houses other beautiful remnants of the volcanic activity including a cinder cone island & pinnacles. Crater Lake National Park is currently Oregon's only National Park. The lake itself is the deepest lake in all of America, reaching depths of 1,943 FT. In the...

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Welcome to Redwood National and State Parks! That's right, Redwood NP is unique as it houses 3 individual California State Parks within it's borders! So when you visit this national park you'll also be visiting: Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park and Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park.  This combo national and state park is filled with 132 acres of nature. Here you'll find the world's TALLEST trees! In fact, the three tallest individual trees in the world live in this park! However, their location is kept a secret to avoid any vandalism or damage being...

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There are four types of volcanoes in the world: shield, composite, cinder cone and plug dome volcanoes. You'll find ALL FOUR of these types of volcanoes in the beautiful, Lassen Volcanic National Park! About 600k years ago, there was a massive volcano named Mount Tehama that eventually eroded into many smaller peaks, after being dormant for thousands of years. The area's hydrothermal alteration and glacial action were the main contributors to the erosion. Thanks to Mount Tehama, all the volcanos, every rock and every peak in the park originates from a volcano.  Lassen Peak The park is named after Lassen Peak, a plug...

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