Lake Crescent fills a glacier-carved, quarter moon shaped valley in the Olympic National Park, filled with cold waters clear enough to see down 60 feet because of its lack of nitrogen and therefore phytoplankton. Beardslee and Crescenti trout live here; the only place they live in the world. This is also a vista-filled launching point to surrounding hikes along ridges and out to Marymere Falls.

Lake Crescent Olympic National Park Olympic Peninsula Foggy Cloud-Shrouded Trees

Cloud-shrouded trees along shores of Lake Crescent



Lake Crescent Olympic National Park Olympic Peninsula Brian Taking Photograph From Shore

Brother photographing Lake Crescent



Lake Crescent Olympic National Park Olympic Peninsula Foggy Cloudy Ridges

Foggy clouds roll over valley ridges surrounding Lake Crescent