Port Angeles, Washington
A visitor’s guide to the Upper Left of the U.S.
For three weeks, in addition to the six days of driving to and from, our family of six “lived” in Port Angeles, Washington.
It was the best trip I’ve ever taken.
I have never written any sort of travel guide, but I feel qualified to spill the beans from our extended stay on the Olympic Peninsula.
This might be because summertime in a temperate rainforest, surrounded by beauty that even (maybe especially) an iPhone camera cannot capture, was positively a transcendent experience for our family, a brood of desert rats.
Even then, my hunch tells me that 49% of the amazingness was because this trip was a real, true, intimate vacation for our family — me, my partner, and our four kids (11, 7, 5, & 5). We were alone and away from my color-coded, meticulously kept schedule for an entire month. We stayed long enough to let tiny roots seep in. And while my husband worked remotely, we spent every day going outside, together.
You can do that when the high is 67 degrees and there is no itinerary.
In no particular order, here are all the things (in our humble opinion) that a visitor should absolutely do when staying in Port Angeles and visiting the surrounding areas.
