Port Angeles Parks & Gardens
• A WorldWeb.com Travel Guide to Parks & Gardens in Port Angeles, Washington State.
This temperate rain forest is a unique ecosystem that is located in the western end of Olympic National Park, along the Pacific Coast. The forest receives about 140 in to 167 in of rain each year. It is home to a wide range of trees including century old Sitka spruces, western hemlock, bigleaf maple, red alder, and black cottonwood. Trees here can reach heights of about 300 feet.
Rich in history and wildlife, the park encompasses three completely different ecosystems including rugged glacier capped mountains, over 60 miles of untouched Pacific coast and impressive stands of old growth and temperate rain forest. The biological communities here were isolated for thousand of years by water and ice sheets during the last ice age. Due to this isolation, some species uniquely evolved only in this region.




