Olympic National Park

Salt Beach Campground on the Puget Sound side, just west of Port Angeles is a great campground.
The best place for whale watching is probably La Push, a tiny little Quileute village, on the Pacific side of the Olympics. There is a RV Park there that is right on the water. The beach is rocky and and filled with drift wood but was the only place we have ever seen whales.
And as your driving in the area make sure you stop at Ruby Beach, no camping but have your camera ready.
And even though its a dry campground, at least spend one night at the HOH Rain forest. There are tree sections and one has sites right along the river and the other two are under canopies of trees.

Thanks for all the input. We can definitely dry camp when needed. Considering Elwha Dam and a couple of others. Looking forward to seeing the area. Is late July and August wet?

Hiker52 wrote:
Thanks for all the input. We can definitely dry camp when needed. Considering Elwha Dam and a couple of others. Looking forward to seeing the area. Is late July and August wet?

When I was in Bremerton they had received 143 days of straight rain. Not all day frog chokers but a steady light drizzle. They don't call it a rain forest for no reason.

It is rare to dry camp on the Olympic Peninsula.
Wet camping with no hookups.
Forks gets 100 inches of rain. The mountain locations on the west side of the range, get up to 200 inches.

July and August are the dry months..................usually. A bigger worry might be any summer wildfires that we have struggled through the last few years with lots of smoke statewide and some "imported" from Canada. Hopefully we will have fewer large fires. This is a beautiful area, enjoy.

If you want hookups, we liked Elwha. We also liked Hard Rain RV in the Hoh Valley. That place is almost like boondocking with hookups -- very quiet and remote.

I forgot to post the link:

Hard Rain

By the way, their cafe is really good.