Passes
About Recreation Fees
Ready to enjoy amazing outdoor adventures? The Olympic National Forests offer places for hiking, biking, nature viewing, scenic drives, and for gathering forest products such as mushrooms, firewood, and Christmas trees.
Many of the facilities and services associated with these opportunities are free. However, some do require fees or permits to help maintain, manage and improve the forest's infrastructure. You have several options to purchase annual passes.
Recreation Pass Types
Buy passes in-person at a Forest Service office or local store. Obtain passes online at Discover Your NW or US Geological Survey Store.
Recreation passes provide access to Forest Service operated recreation sites in Washington and Oregon where a day use fee is required. Less than 20 developed recreation sites on the Olympic National Forest require a recreation pass (not including campgrounds).
Annual passes cover day-use or entrance fees all year, while single-day passes work for one day.
2025 Fee Free Dates
During Fee Free Dates the Forest Service waives recreation fees at most day-use sites on lands managed by the agency. Participation by concession-operated sites may vary.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: January 20, 2025
- National Get Outdoors Day: June 14, 2025
- Juneteenth: June 19, 2025
- National Public Lands Day: September 27, 2025
- Veterans Day: November 11, 2025
In-person or online recreation pass sales
Offices
Day and annual passes can be purchased in-person during regular business hours at one of our four office locations.
Fee Machines
Day passes can be purchased 24-hours a day at our cashless automated fee machine locations at the following locations:
- Quinault Rainforest Trailhead
- Outside the Quinault Office
- Outside the Quilcene Office (Coming Soon)
- Lena Lake Trailhead
- Big Creek Campground
- Seal Rock Campground (Coming Soon)
- Klahowya Campground (Coming Soon)
Discover Your Northwest (Online)
Discover Your Northwest is a non-profit partner of the Olympic National Forest that offers online purchase of Annual and Day-use passes.
The organization promotes the discovery of Northwest public lands, enriches the experience of visitors, and encourages stewardship of these special places today and for generations to come.
USGS Store (Online)
The USGS Store offers America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Passes, a suite of annual and lifetime passes that provides U.S. citizens and visitors an affordable and convenient way to access Federal recreational lands.
Up to 100% of the Pass program's proceeds are used to improve and enhance visitor recreation services.
Vendors
Vendors are businesses and partners that sell recreation passes and permits in communities near forests. Some vendors only sell one or two kinds of recreation products, so be sure to check whether they actually have the recreation product and their hours of operation.