What today is Washington state had life going back 12,000 years ago, according to archaeological artifacts like a spear point a hunter left behind by an ancient hunter. Washington was a place that has been offering humanity intrinsic magnificence for thousands of years with its diverse ecosystem of mountains, rivers, lakes, and coastline, and its residents wanted to preserve that nature.

On this day July 29^th, in 1938, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Olympic National Park into legislation. His distant cousin Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act which has enabled national parks, monuments, and historical/scientific sites to be preserved, and designated the Mount Olympus as one of them. A National Monument in 1909 became a national park.

This national park has a coastline of 73 miles with sand and jagged rocks. It also has snow, including on Mount Olympus itself (elevation 7,965), as a result which the mountain houses a number of glaciers. The Olympic National Park also has a rainforest with thousands of different species of animals. It is a true treasure of the United States.