OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — A special quarter featuring a Roosevelt elk wading into the Hoh River’s gravelly shores against a backdrop of Mount Olympus will be released next year.
The specific release date has not been determined. The official design was announced by the U.S. Mint on its website Wednesday.
The Olympic National Park quarter will be the eighth in the “America the Beautiful” series that began this year, the website said.
Images of national parks and forests are embossed on the flip side of quarters in the order in which they were designated as a park.
The series began with Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas in April, according to www.usmint.gov.
Other coins released in 2010 include Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, Yosemite National Park in California, Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona and Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon.
In 2011, Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania and Glacier National Park in Montana will precede the release of the Olympic National Park coin.
Vicksburg National Military Park in Mississippi and Chickasaw National Recreation Area in Oklahoma will follow later in the year.
About five coins will be released each year, and 56 sites were selected for the program.
The coins will be issued in the order Congress approved the national sites and will end with Alabama’s Tuskegee Airmen Memorial in early 2021.
