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Olympic National Park
5-Day Hiking Tours
Small Group Experience • All Inclusive Trips • Expert Guides
Whether you’re traveling solo, as a couple, or with family, this is Washington done right. Call 1-800-206-7909 and let’s start planning your trip.
Best of Olympic
Lodging Adventure
Discover Olympic National Park's coast, mountains and rainforest on a 5-day lodging adventure. Hike, kayak, and stay in historic lodges.
Why visit Olympic with MountainBased?
Small Groups, Big Connections
We keep our trips intimate, with just 6-12 guests per departure, so every hiker gets real attention from their guide and time to actually connect with the landscape (and each other). Whether you’re traveling solo, as a couple, or with family, our small group format makes it easy to form genuine friendships out on the trail. Click here to see more of what sets our trips apart.
A Top-Rated Way to Experience Olympic National Park
MountainBased has been honored with TripAdvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Award year after year, recognizing us among the best hiking tour operators across our destinations. That recognition comes down to our guides, our group sizes, and our commitment to giving every guest a trip worth remembering.
Historic Lodging, Comfortably Curated
Each night on our Olympic tours is spent in handpicked historic lodges, places with real character and a strong sense of the peninsula’s past. After a full day on the trail, you’ll return to comfortable rooms, hearty meals, and the kind of rustic charm that only comes from lodges rooted in the park’s history. We’ve done the work of finding the best of these stays so you can simply relax and enjoy them.
Guides Who Know the Peninsula
Our Olympic guides bring more than trail knowledge; they bring a genuine passion for the peninsula’s temperate rainforests, wild coastline, and alpine terrain. From native plant life to the region’s rich natural and cultural history, they’re ready to share it all as you hike. They also handle the logistics: transportation, meals, and getting you between trailheads and lodges, so you can stay focused on the trail ahead. Our aim is simple: a seamless, immersive experience in one of the most ecologically diverse parks in the country. Click here to meet the guides who’ll bring your trip to life.
Why book an Olympic guided hiking tour?
Olympic National Park is one of the most logistically complex parks to explore on your own. Its rainforest, coastline, and mountain zones are often hours apart by car, each with its own access points, road conditions, and permit requirements. Add in the Peninsula’s notoriously unpredictable weather and the remoteness of many trailheads, and independent planning can eat up time you’d rather spend on the trail. A guided adventure takes care of the details: routes, permits, transportation between zones, and timing around the weather, so you can relax and take in the rainforest, coast, and alpine views without the guesswork. A guided trip with MountainBased makes your time in Olympic seamless, so you can focus on the experience, not the logistics.
Each tour is great for couples, families, and solo travelers alike
More Information about Olympic
Olympic National Park sits on Washington’s rugged northwest corner, encompassing nearly a million acres of some of the most varied terrain in the National Park System. Within a single park, you’ll find glacier-capped peaks, old-growth and temperate rainforest, and more than 70 miles of wild Pacific coastline, three distinct ecosystems that rarely exist so close together. This diversity is part of what earned the park its UNESCO World Heritage Site and International Biosphere Reserve designations, recognizing both its ecological significance and its remarkably undisturbed wilderness.
The park’s rainforests, including the Hoh and Quinault valleys, are among the wettest places in the continental United States, receiving upwards of 140 inches of rain a year. That moisture feeds towering Sitka spruce and western hemlock draped in thick curtains of moss, along with ferns and undergrowth so dense it feels almost prehistoric. The alpine terrain around Hurricane Ridge offers a completely different experience: subalpine meadows, sweeping mountain views, and access to trails leading toward the glaciers of Mount Olympus. Meanwhile, the park’s coastal strip, largely roadless and only reachable on foot in many stretches, is known for its sea stacks, tide pools, and driftwood-strewn beaches that stretch for miles.
Because Olympic’s ecosystems are so spread out, exploring the park well means being thoughtful about routing, timing, and terrain, especially given how quickly weather can shift between the coast and the mountains. Wildlife is abundant throughout, from Roosevelt elk in the rainforest valleys to black bears, bald eagles, and marine life along the shoreline. For hikers, this is a park that rewards those willing to slow down and move between its different worlds, making it one of the most rewarding, and most complex, national parks in the country to experience.
Weather in the Summer
The months of July and August are the most popular times of year for visitors to Olympic. Depending on elevations and location, temperatures tend to be mild to warm, but can still vary drastically by at least 10 degrees. Rain is always a possibility and hikers need to always be prepared for thunderstorms, especially in the higher elevations. Despite sunny conditions, fog can persist along the coastal strip and inhibit visibility.
