Ranger Tales
Waterfalls & landmarks

Every stop, in detail

A guide to each waterfall, viewpoint, and landmark on our tours — what it is, where it is, and how to hear its story narrated as you go.

Olympic National Park

A Brief Summer Window
A Brief Summer Window
A Forest In Stories
A Forest In Stories
A Sprinter's Season
A Sprinter's Season
A String Of Beaches
A String Of Beaches
A Temperate Rainforest
A Temperate Rainforest
A Wall of Peaks
A Wall of Peaks
A Warm Heart Beating
A Warm Heart Beating
A-Ka-Lat, Island Of Rest
A-Ka-Lat, Island Of Rest
Assembled Piece By Piece
Assembled Piece By Piece
Back Up The Watershed
Back Up The Watershed
Big Spruce Trail — the trailhead
Big Spruce Trail — the trailhead
Black Bear Country
Black Bear Country
Building To The Falls
Building To The Falls
Carved By A Glacier
Carved By A Glacier
Clear As Glass
Clear As Glass
Climbing to Hurricane Ridge
Climbing to Hurricane Ridge
Down Toward The Sea
Down Toward The Sea
Earning The Green
Earning The Green
Everything Grows On Everything
Everything Grows On Everything
Ferns And Wood Sorrel
Ferns And Wood Sorrel
First Up Mount Olympus
First Up Mount Olympus
Following The River Home
Following The River Home
Forks — the Town That Died Twice
Forks — the Town That Died Twice
Forks — Timber Town
Forks — Timber Town
Found Nowhere Else
Found Nowhere Else
Four Giants
Four Giants
Glacial Flour
Glacial Flour
Graveyard Of The Pacific
Graveyard Of The Pacific
Hall of Mosses Trail — the trailhead
Hall of Mosses Trail — the trailhead
Headed The Same Way
Headed The Same Way
How The Mountains Were Made
How The Mountains Were Made
Hurricane Hill Trail — the trailhead
Hurricane Hill Trail — the trailhead
Hurricane Ridge — the Roof of the Peninsula
Hurricane Ridge — the Roof of the Peninsula
Into The Heaviest Forest
Into The Heaviest Forest
Into the Hoh — the longest valley road
Into the Hoh — the longest valley road
Into The Rainiest Forest
Into The Rainiest Forest
Into The Subalpine
Into The Subalpine
Kalaloch & Beach 4 — tide pools and the coast you can sleep on
Kalaloch & Beach 4 — tide pools and the coast you can sleep on
Lake Crescent — the Blue Deep
Lake Crescent — the Blue Deep
Lake Quinault Lodge — where a president made a park
Lake Quinault Lodge — where a president made a park
Lichen And Clean Air
Lichen And Clean Air
Life In The Canopy
Life In The Canopy
Marymere Falls — the easy walk into the old growth
Marymere Falls — the easy walk into the old growth
Marymere Falls Trail — the trailhead
Marymere Falls Trail — the trailhead
Masters Of The Sea
Masters Of The Sea
Merriman Falls — the rainforest's roadside ribbon
Merriman Falls — the rainforest's roadside ribbon
Ninety-Five Percent Wild
Ninety-Five Percent Wild
On The World's Short List
On The World's Short List
One Square Inch Of Silence
One Square Inch Of Silence
Onto The Rainy Flank
Onto The Rainy Flank
Ozette — the Northwest Corner
Ozette — the Northwest Corner
Pillow Basalt
Pillow Basalt
Reading The Trees
Reading The Trees
Roosevelt Elk — the Bottomland Herd
Roosevelt Elk — the Bottomland Herd
Ruby Beach — where the highway meets the sea
Ruby Beach — where the highway meets the sea
Salamanders And Newts
Salamanders And Newts
Salmon Cascades — the leap upriver
Salmon Cascades — the leap upriver
Salt And Thunder Fade
Salt And Thunder Fade
Seashells On The Summit
Seashells On The Summit
Second Beach & La Push — the Quileute Coast
Second Beach & La Push — the Quileute Coast
Second Beach Trail — the trailhead
Second Beach Trail — the trailhead
Seventy-Three Wild Miles
Seventy-Three Wild Miles
Sol Duc Falls — the river splits and falls
Sol Duc Falls — the river splits and falls
Sol Duc Falls Trail — the trailhead
Sol Duc Falls Trail — the trailhead
Spokes On A Wheel
Spokes On A Wheel
Sunrise Viewpoint
Sunrise Viewpoint
Sunrise Viewpoint Trail — the walk out
Sunrise Viewpoint Trail — the walk out
The Banana Slug
The Banana Slug
The Blueback Salmon
The Blueback Salmon
The Braided River
The Braided River
The Bugling Bull Elk
The Bugling Bull Elk
The Champion Wood-Growers
The Champion Wood-Growers
The Cleanest Rivers
The Cleanest Rivers
The Cougar's Country
The Cougar's Country
The Crack Offshore
The Crack Offshore
The Discovery Trail
The Discovery Trail
The Drift Logs
The Drift Logs
The Edge Of The Continent
The Edge Of The Continent
The Elwha — a River Set Free (Madison Falls)
The Elwha — a River Set Free (Madison Falls)
The Finished Work
The Finished Work
The First Open Sky
The First Open Sky
The Freed Elwha
The Freed Elwha
The Glaciered Little Peak
The Glaciered Little Peak
The Goats That Flew
The Goats That Flew
The Gray Whale Lane
The Gray Whale Lane
The Hall Of Mosses
The Hall Of Mosses
The Hanging Gardens
The Hanging Gardens
The Heart Of It
The Heart Of It
The Hoh Rain Forest — Hall of Mosses
The Hoh Rain Forest — Hall of Mosses
The Hotel That Burned
The Hotel That Burned
The Lady of the Lake
The Lady of the Lake
The Last Natural Quiet
The Last Natural Quiet
The Long Ride Down
The Long Ride Down
The Makah — the Village the Sea Kept
The Makah — the Village the Sea Kept
The Marbled Murrelet
The Marbled Murrelet
The Moss-Draped Maples
The Moss-Draped Maples
The Network Underfoot
The Network Underfoot
The Nurse Log
The Nurse Log
The Otters' Comeback
The Otters' Comeback
The Press Expedition
The Press Expedition
The Queets — the Road Bends Away
The Queets — the Road Bends Away
The Rain Shadow — one mountain, two climates
The Rain Shadow — one mountain, two climates
The Sea Stacks
The Sea Stacks
The Seabird Islands
The Seabird Islands
The Shell Middens
The Shell Middens
The Sound Of Wet Country
The Sound Of Wet Country
The Spawning Feast
The Spawning Feast
The Strong People
The Strong People
The Subalpine Meadows — marmots, wildflowers & the high trails
The Subalpine Meadows — marmots, wildflowers & the high trails
The Three Worlds — a Ranger's Farewell (Lake Quinault finale)
The Three Worlds — a Ranger's Farewell (Lake Quinault finale)
The Tide Pools
The Tide Pools
The Towering Sitka Spruce
The Towering Sitka Spruce
The Tree Of Life
The Tree Of Life
The Tree of Life — the spruce that would not fall
The Tree of Life — the spruce that would not fall
The Trout In One Lake
The Trout In One Lake
The Unbroken Ark
The Unbroken Ark
The Voice Of The Rainforest
The Voice Of The Rainforest
The War Spruce Railroad
The War Spruce Railroad
The Water Tower
The Water Tower
The Wild Heart You Can’t Reach
The Wild Heart You Can’t Reach
The Wind The Sculptor
The Wind The Sculptor
The Working Waterfront
The Working Waterfront
The World's Largest Sitka Spruce
The World's Largest Sitka Spruce
Through The Doorway
Through The Doorway
Treading Light
Treading Light
Turning From The Ocean
Turning From The Ocean
Up the Sol Duc — the Sparkling Waters
Up the Sol Duc — the Sparkling Waters
Where Champions Cluster
Where Champions Cluster
Where Forest Meets Surf
Where Forest Meets Surf
Where The Road Runs Out
Where The Road Runs Out
Why It's Called Hurricane
Why It's Called Hurricane
Why This Park Exists
Why This Park Exists
Wildlife Against The Sky
Wildlife Against The Sky

Cherohala Skyway

Hocking Hills State Park

Indian Canyons & Palm Canyon

Delaware Water Gap

Gulf State Park

Moonshiner 28

Cades Cove

Whiteface Veterans Memorial Highway

Palms to Pines Scenic Byway

J.N. "Ding" Darling National Wildlife Refuge

Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Beacon Rock State Park

Belle Isle Park

Multnomah Falls

The Mohawk Trail

Tail of the Dragon

Muir Woods National Monument

Gateway Arch National Park

The Apache Trail

Palo Duro Canyon State Park

Lost Maples State Natural Area

Myakka River State Park

Silver Falls State Park

Ricketts Glen State Park

High Point State Park

Horseshoe Bend & Glen Canyon

Highlands Hammock State Park

Goliad State Park & Presidio La Bahía

Vancouver Barracks

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