Hurricane Hill — Monday, Mar. 7, 2005

Olympic Peninsula > Northern Coast

Started our trip on a beautiful sunny day. When we arrived at Hurricane Ridge gate to Olympic National Park we found the park was only open on Friday, Sat., and Sundays. It seems keeping our parks open to the public is not a high priorty to the park superintendent. We were told by the personel at the info trailer that the roads were clear and the only reason for the closure was that they lacked the personel to respond to an emergency if required. A very lame reason we though. What ever happened to ""enter at your own risk"" it works at the beach when no life guards are there. So we thought we would go to Deer Park but NO it was also closed. We were told if we did not like the park schedule we could contact our congressmen, good idea we though.