The Deer Park Trail stretches 7.45 miles east from Obstruction Point to Deer Park, the highest running trail in Olympic National Park. It provides sweeping panoramas that range from the Strait of Juan de Fuca to Blue Mountain, the Needles of Royal Basin, the Bailey Range, and Mt Olympus.

The Deer Park Trail runs across open scree fields and high grassy slopes from Obstruction Point

Looking southwest from Hurricane Ridge across the Bailey Range

Moisture evaporates from warmer valleys below veiling the upper ridges in fog

Ancient glaciers isolated species like the Olympic marmot, found nowhere else on earth

After nearly 5 miles over treeline, the trail drops into a high subalpine forest

Despite poor soil at higher elevations, alpine flowers find suitable footholds in well-drained slopes

The Deer Park Trail provides commanding views over Badger Valley and up Grand Valley

Olympic Harebell is restricted to higher elevations in the peninsula

After an initial climb, the trail levels for over a mile above Badger Valley

The eastern end of the Deer Park Trail is located in the Olympic rain shadow

Paintbrush is in the figwort family, whose principal commercial value is decorative

Snags in the fire-stricken area near Deer Park are a good place to see raptors

Grassy knolls alternative with very steep, unstable scree slopes midway through the trail

The Badger Valley Trail offers an alternative route to Grand Lake

The Badger Valley Trail splits from Deer Park .25 miles below Obstruction point