National Park visitor centers hold holiday sale, book signing scheduled

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The creators of five keepsake books about the North Olympic Peninsula will sign copies of their work Sunday, Dec. 12, during a two-week holiday sale at park visitor centers.

The sale will begin Friday, Dec. 10, at Discover Your Northwest locations at the Olympic National Park Visitor Center, 3002 Mount Angeles Road, Port Angeles; the Forks Recreation Information Center, 551 S. Forks Ave., Forks; and the Hoh Rain Forest Visitor Center, located at the end of Upper Hoh Road, about 31 miles south of Forks off U.S. Highway 101.

During the sale, which will run through Friday, Dec. 24, customers will receive a 15 percent discount, with Discover Your Northwest members, as well as members of other national park cooperating organizations, eligible to receive a 30 percent discount.

The book signing, with light refreshments offered, will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Olympic National Park Visitor Center.

Authors are:

• Photographer Ross Hamilton, who will sign Olympic Wilderness Trilogy, calendars and posters.

• Tim McNulty and David Woodcock. McNulty wrote From the Air: Olympic Peninsula and Olympic National Park: A Natural History. Woodcock photographed From the Air.

• Gary Peterson and Glynda Peterson Schaad, authors of Women to Reckon With: Untamed Women of the Olympic Wilderness and High Divide: Minnie Peterson’s Olympic Mountain Adventures.

Discover Your Northwest will offer a variety of new products, including organic T-shirts and new Elwha River Restoration cinch sacks and hats.

The Olympic National Park annual pass and the America the Beautiful — National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Annual Pass will not be offered at discount prices.

But they will be available at the park centers.

The Olympic National Park Visitor Center in Port Angeles is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.

The Hoh Rain Forest Visitor Center and the Forks Recreation Information Center are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday through Sunday.

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