Washington
Olympic National Park
Protected in 1909 by Theodore Roosevelt, largely for the sake of the Roosevelt elk.
$54
Original pen plot · signed · no two identical
Ink & paper: Blue
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+ Details
- 12 × 18 inches
- Drawn on 98 lb (160 gsm) archival cotton paper
- Precision technical pens and archival inks
- Signed and dated on the back
- Ships flat, protected, ready to frame
Each map begins with elevation data and is drawn by a pen plotter in our Vermont studio. Mechanical precision, plus the texture and small imperfections of real ink on paper.
+ About this map
Olympic National Park began with a president protecting an elk named after him. In December 1897 the mammalogist C. Hart Merriam named the Roosevelt elk for his friend Theodore Roosevelt, at a time when the subspecies numbered in the hundreds of thousands along the Pacific coast; by about 1900, market and tusk hunters had cut the Olympic Peninsula herds to fewer than 500 animals. The first park bill Congress took up, in 1904, was titled “The Elk National Park.” On March 2, 1909 Roosevelt created Mount Olympus National Monument, primarily to save the animal that carried his name.
The map shows a compact cluster of mountains rather than a linear range. Contour lines knot together around Mount Olympus at the center, then unwind along the river valleys that drain outward in every direction, including the Hoh, the Elwha, the Quinault, and the Dosewallips. That radial pattern, rivers spreading from a single icy core toward the sea, is the signature of the Olympics and the organizing logic of the print.
+ Site data
- Location
- Olympic National Park
- Region
- Pacific Northwest
- Elevation
- 7,980 ft / 2,432 m
- Coordinates
- 47.9701N 123.4996W
- Type
- national park
- Notes
- Glaciated peaks, temperate rainforest, and wilderness coast in one park
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