Best Easy Day Hikes Olympic National Park

An updated guide to the best short--under 5-mile--hikes in Washington’s Olympic National Park--perfect for families or people who don’t have a lot of time but still want to enjoy this spectacular park. Nearly thirty routes are described in detail with highlights of the hike, approximate hiking time, easy-to-follow directions to the trailhead, GPS coordinates, and a ranking of the hikes from easy to challenging.

Veteran author and backcountry explorer Erik Molvar discovered backpacking while working on a volunteer trails crew in the North Cascades of Washington. He is the author of more than a dozen FalconGuides for such places as Glacier National Park, the Bob Marshall Wilderness, Olympic National Park, Zion and Bryce Canyon National Park, as well as Colorado’s Maroon Bells-Snowmass Wilderness.