Olympic National Park

A park on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, divided into four regions – the Pacific coastline, the west-side temperate rainforest, the alpine areas, and the forests of the drier east side. Theodore Roosevelt originally designated the ground as Mount Olympus National Monument on 2 March 1909; Congress and Franklin D. Roosevelt redesignated it a national park on 29 June 1938. UNESCO named it an International Biosphere Reserve in 1976 and a World Heritage Site in 1981, and in 1988 Congress designated 95 percent of it – 1,370 square miles – as the Olympic Wilderness, since renamed in honor of the former Washington governor Daniel J. Evans.