Seattle: Rainforest, Beach, and Olympic National Park Highlights
Description
A Full-Day Rainforest and beach adventure from Seattle Explore Washington's Olympic Peninsula with a friendly local guide We ensure you get many photo spots! We are the only single day tour from Seattle that takes you into the best rainforest and beach spots on the peninsula. Local knowledge to see the most fun and meaningful spots! For fun during the ride, we provide tasty craft chocolate bars and other good snacks and drinks! Why Travelers Love This Tour: "The rainforests felt like out of a dream." "I’ve never seen a beach like Ruby Beach—completely unforgettable!" *Late June through August the Hoh Rainforest area not accessible due to very long lines. Don't worry, we go to a similar rainforest area you will love! About Max Travels: Max Travels was created for people like you to experience the great nature of this area in a fun and friendly way. We look forward to your tour! Max Travels, LLC is licensed and insured to provide tours
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Itinerary
We pass through Aberdeen, full of intriguing stories. We stop at a local coffee shop that sells art from local artists. For people interested in Seattle music history or the band Nirvana, we may can stop at the under the bridge memorial and childhood home for Kurt Cobain.
We enter the Quinault Rainforest and take a short hike amongst ancient trees, giant ferns, and other plants. The fresh air and surroundings of this temperate rainforest is a thrilling experience for a first time visitors and long time hikers. We take a rest stop at the Quinault Resort Lodge, which is where President Franklin D. Roosevelt stayed when he established Olympic National Park. The lodge has a perfect view of Lake Quinault.
We take walk along the gorgeous Ruby Beach. You will see large haystack rock formations and many logs strewn about the beach. This is raw and unique beach surprises many visitors. One awe struck visitor remarked, "I've been to a lot of beaches, but I've never been to one that looked and felt like this."
We walk through the famous "Hall of Mosses" in the Hoh Rainforest. The moss grows heavy among this large grove of maple trees. We will also see giant ferns and may see mushrooms and elk. *Please note from late June to early August, we may not be able to access the Hoh Rainforest since the wait times to enter are over 2 hours.
We stop for lunch in the historic town of Forks. Forks was featured in the Twilight vampire book and movies series. Lunch options include: A burger cafe, a BBQ spot, and Mexican spot.
We stop at the Lake Crescent lodge located right on Lake Crescent to get a few more good photos. This deep lake has some chilling stories we may share.
Fun Ferry Boat Ride across Puget Sound with great views of Seattle.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
We can pick you up at The Westin Hotel at 1900 5th Ave. We can pick up from your hotel if you are 3 or more people or in special circumstances. After the tour we drop you off at your hotel in the main Seattle area.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(108)
Wonderful day seeing Olympic National Park and the coast; headed out and stopped for breakfast at Solid Coffee who had the best egg sandwiches; went to Quinault Rain Forest and spent time there rather than Hoh (too crowded) and we practically had the place to ourselves; went to Beach 1 and Ruby Beach to explore the coast - it is a long full day but they provided snacks and stop for lunch midafternoon - guide Johnny was great, very knowledgeable, acted as photographer, had excellent music choices and made day memorable.
We loved this tour. It was a great experience and Marc was an excellent guide, very friendly, he knows a lot about the state and gave us lots of fun facts while! We enjoyed all of the stops without feeling rushed, while making excellent timing. We got great pictures at all the locations. The van was comfortable, the snacks were great and the soundtrack was awesome. We highly recommend this tour especially if you want to visit Olympic National Park but have a limited amount of time.
this trip was way tooooo long! Great op to see the rainforest of WA but 12 hours led to 14.5 hours…. and we got so behind schedule we could not take the ferry ride back to Seattle (one of the reasons I booked this tour). Also, we were unable to hear much of the dialogue because the guide did not “mike up” for most of the drive. The guide could be better educated …. every tree was 500 years old and every tree fell about 25 years ago! Get a van that is comfortable to those in the back seats… this was almost like being on a roller coaster… speeding driver and airborne w every bump!
This tour was exceptional! The rainforest and beaches were enchanting and awe inspiring. I loved being among the trees and seeing beaches like I’ve never seen before. Mark was such a fun guide. He was engaging with the group and had alot of interesting facts about Seattle, plant life, etc. We all had so much fun and shared alot of laughs. Highly recommended.
Wonderful, glad you enjoyed!
Wonderful Tour! Johnny was a great tour guide, great music Playlist to listen too, the sites were beautiful. I would do this tour again.
Oralia, thank you so much and glad it all worked out!
Good experience , learnt new things
Amazing adventure !!! Beautiful rainforest and Ruby beach. Rachel is awesome and caring
This was a full day with so much to see. We traveled all the way around the peninsula and we were supposed to come back on the ferry, but cut it out to get a group home faster for their dinner plans. Our group was fine with it, but advice to future travelers, this is a FULL day (7am to 9pm) so don’t try to schedule anything afterwards. A quick shout out to our guide Johnny as well! Great guide, great photographer, and an all around great guy!
This was a very comprehensive tour of Olympic Park.Be prepared for a fantastic full 12 hour day. Our guide Rachel provided us with so much information. Our stops were well planned and she made the day fun! Her lovely personality and well planned tour provided one of the best experiences! The rain forests hikes were a pure delight. Check out this tour.You won't regret it!!
Fantastic tour! Our guide Randal was very informative. He was knowledgeable about all of our stops and gave us plenty of time to explore in our own.
That's awesome! Thanks for joining and for the wonderful feedback!
