2014 Olympic NP — Gray Wolf Loop
To complete our “visit 3 National Parks this year” challenge from Backpacker Magazine, we chose a recommended backdoor Olympic trail from them as well. We were afraid that this trail would be very crowded since it had been written up in the magazine just a few months before we visited. We only saw 12 people in the 6 days we were there and 3 of them were hiking out when we were heading in. Olympic is a beautiful park (as can be said for all National Parks). An avid backpacker could spend a lifetime exploring Washington State’s wilderness. Definitely check out Olympic–you won’t be disappointed.