Olympus Ranger Station Camp
Inside a national park unit
Olympus Ranger Station Camp sits inside Olympic National Park — a national park run by the National Park Service.
Park rules apply, and they are stricter than dispersed camping: inside a National Park Service unit you camp in a designated campground or on a backcountry permit, not wherever you find a flat spot. Check the park before you go: nps.gov/olym ↗
Our record names USFS as the land manager; the Park Service’s own boundary map puts this point inside the unit. Two agencies disagree about one spot — ask the park first.
Placed by point-in-polygon against the National Park Service’s own boundary layer (NPS Land Resources Division, 442 units, fetched 18 Sep 2026; this unit’s polygon edited 2024-12-17). Nothing about the price or the legal status on this page was changed by it.
No MVUM road within 1 mi of the pin; access may be a county road or unmapped.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
- Tent camping
- No trailers or RVs
- No drinking water — carry your own
- No showers
- Listed as a backcountry site
Everything you need — measured from Olympus Ranger Station Camp · U.S. Forest Service · WA
- DDump8 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- WWater8 mi
- FFuel13 mi
- LLaundry15 mi
- ShShower15 mi
- OOutfitter15 mi
- @Mail18 mi
- +Urgent care19 mi
- MMechanic20 mi
- AAir-up21 mi
- RxPharmacy22 mi
- EVEV fast charger23 mi
- HHardware23 mi
- PPropane46 mi
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 8 mi out.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Olympus Ranger Station Camp
Nearby & resupply — around Olympus Ranger Station Camp · U.S. Forest Service · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureHoh River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townOvington · ~13.6 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~7.2 mi
- FuelDEF Fuel · ~22.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~7.6 mi
- GroceriesSol Duc Hot Springs Resort Gift Shop & Grocery Store · ~7.7 mi
- PharmacyRite Aid · ~22.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicObria Medical Clinics · ~22.4 mi
- HardwareHarbor Freight Tools · ~23.2 mi
EV charging — from Olympus Ranger Station Camp · U.S. Forest Service · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger23.0 mi straight-line NE — Ruddell Auto, Port Angeles, WA · FLO · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach2 within 25 mi · 6 within 50 · 334 within 100 · 382 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)29.0 mi — Forks, WA - Tesla Supercharger, Forks
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)7.8 mi — Olympic National Park - Sol Duc Hot Springs Resort, Port Angeles, WA (at a national park) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-01-13 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Hoh Valley Cabins, Forks, 18.3 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guest only · AFDC lists it “Free”
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 259583 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Olympus Ranger Station Camp · U.S. Forest Service · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomBldg Sol Duc Trailhead 1 CXT Vault Toilet (TS) · ~6.3 mi NW · NPS
- RestroomCBldg 987 Sol Duc B Loop Comfort Station #2 · ~7.1 mi NW · NPS
- RestroomCBldg 988 Sol Duc B Loop Comfort Station #1 · ~7.2 mi NW · NPS
- RestroomCBldg 125 Sol Duc A Loop Comfort Station # 2 · ~7.4 mi NW · NPS
Coming out here — Olympus Ranger Station Camp · U.S. Forest Service · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Hoh River as a perennial river, ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 2.2% — flat. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Olympus Ranger Station Camp elsewhere
Other camps near Olympus Ranger Station Camp
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Clallam County~16.7 mi
- Jefferson County~17.0 mi
- Littleton~17.9 mi · fee
- Klahowya~20.5 mi · fee
Who holds the land at Olympus Ranger Station Camp
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Olympic National Park, manager on record: National Park Service (federal). Our own record names USFS as the manager. The two sources disagree, and we have not checked which is right. That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Olympus Ranger Station Camp
What we don’t know about Olympus Ranger Station Camp
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it