Port Angeles, WA Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Originally named "Puerto de Nuestra Señora de los Angeles" by the Spanish in 1791 (the postal service later insisted one Los Angeles was enough), PORT ANGELES is the peninsula's main town and the most popular point of entry into Olympic National Park. Like many other similarly sized towns in the Pacific Northwest, the community is a paradoxical mixture of timber-industry grittiness and picturesque beauty, which sometimes collide in strange and unexpected ways – such as the working-class harbor streaked with industrial chimneys and backdropped by striking mountains. Though … more »