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Record-Sized Trees
The forests include some of the largest surviving trees in North America.
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The forests of Olympic National Park, particularly the rain forests, include some of the largest surviving trees in North America. Just off the South Fork Hoh Trail, for example, stands a 298-foot Douglas Fir, which boasts a trunk circumference of 448 inches. A Sitka Spruce near Lake Quinault is even wider -- measuring 707 inches around -- and 191 feet tall. Another rain-forest dweller, the Western Hemlock, is represented by three specimens over 200 feet tall. The park also includes a 159-foot Western Red Cedar (across from the Rain Forest Motel on the shore of Lake Quinault) and several other huge examples of firs.