Olympic

Declared in 1938 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, partly to protect the Roosevelt elk — named after his predecessor Theodore, who had made the area a national monument in 1909 precisely to save the animal from overhunting. It is all but unique among American parks in bringing together three radically different ecosystems in a single territory: a temperate rainforest (one of the few at mid latitudes anywhere, with up to 3,500 mm of rain a year), more than 100 km of wild Pacific coast, and glaciated peaks above 2,400 metres — all of it reachable within a single day's travel.