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Olympic NP Vacation Day 4: Lots of Driving, Little Hiking

View from Hurricane Ridge Today we got up at a bit before 6:00 AM to start our journey out to Hurricane Ridge.  It takes three hours to drive from Hurricane Ridge from Quinault, so we wanted to make sure we got an early start.  Leaving at 6:30 AM resulted in us skipping the lodge breakfast, they start serving at 7:30 AM, and pulling off at Ruby Beach to eat a breakfast MRE.  The breakfast MRE was hash browns and bacon with a toaster pastry, crackers, apple sauce, and jam.  After our breakfast we continued up 101 to Hurricane Ridge which took us past Crescent Lake to Port Angles the into the national park.   This particular entrance to Olympic NP does it right, by having a small parking area for people to pull off into, so they can then get out of their cars to take a picture in front of the national park sign.  Then right after that small parking lot is the entrance to the first visitor center.  The visitor centers are only partially open, in ...