National Forest · USFS · WA · Roosevelt connection
Olympic National Forest
Alerts and conditions
All clear. The managing agency, the National Weather Service and wildfire reporting show no current alerts.
History
The designation history for this site (every law, proclamation and order, and the administration behind each) is being researched and checked by the Library’s historians.
The Roosevelt connection
His proclamations and orders
- March 2, 1909: Proclamation 869, “Setting Aside Mount Olympus National Monument, Washington.” Today’s site includes land from this document. Former monument lands eliminated in 1915 or left outside the 1938 park went back to the national forest.
Proclamation 869 in Theodore Roosevelt’s Executive Orders and Proclamations
What to see and do
Plan your visit
Check the USDA Forest Service for current hours, fees and access.
Whose lands these are
These lands are the ancestral and present-day homelands of Native nations. A section on whose lands these are is being prepared with tribal review. In the meantime, Native Land Digital offers a starting point.
Pair it with
- Olympic National Park NPS · 21 miles
- Dungeness National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 40 miles
- Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 42 miles
- Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge FWS · 47 miles
- Klondike Gold Rush - Seattle Unit National Historical Park NPS · 47 miles
- Wing Luke Museum Affiliated Area NPS · 47 miles