r/portangeles

Hi all, will be driving up from Bremerton for the start of road trip through Olympic. We have a whale watching tour which starts at 2:30p from the wharf, where would be best place to park a 24 foot RV for the ~4 hours of the tour? We were told about a parking lot near the wharf but I’m a bit concerned on the size of spaces for the RV.

Thanks!

It is after 11 pm on the 4th. There are still bombs, mortars, and rockets going off all around me (I live at 10th and I streets).

My dogs are shaking. My wife is shaking, and I am really upset and thinking seriously about why the police don’t seem to be doing anything.

It isn’t that it only has been going on for a while. It has been going on all evening.

REMEMBER, IT IS ILLEGAL TO SET OFF ANY FIREWORKS IN THE PORT ANGELES CITY LIMITS. My house is well within the city limits.

If you have any compassion for animals like cats, dogs, rabbits, and deer— not to mention veterans who are suffering from PTSD, please stop!

Here is a link to the Facebook event

We’re having a yard sale next weekend and yes there will be fresh homemade baked goods that I’m sure you’ll love!

Hope to see you there!

*reposted with right dates. The other post is wrong I’ll take it down*

He’s a life long Republican who will use his real estate investments to make himself and his friends more wealthy. He funds anti-LGBTQ organizations through his family’s foundation and his solution for homelessness is to get rid of them.

https://preview.redd.it/49pyc7r1wjah1.jpg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b1eea284029f4af14530cafd9ed5638737b5953

Olympic National Park had about 3.6 million visits in 2025. ONP visitors spent nearly $300 million in the local economy. People come to Clallam County and Port Angeles every year just to get a small taste of what we get to experience every day. That is pretty incredible when you stop and think about it. A LOT of people save money, plan vacations, book hotels, rent cars, and spend their limited time off work just to be here for a few days. We get to call this place home.

But for me, the best part of living here is not just the scenery. It is the people. This community shows up. When the Dream Playground was destroyed, people did not just complain about it. They rebuilt it. When people wanted a pump track, the community made that happen too. When our schools started falling apart, voters stepped up.

Nobody is saying everything is perfect. But the fact that people argue so passionately about this place is also evidence that people care. Apathy does not look like heated public meetings, long Reddit threads, volunteer boards, nonprofit fundraisers, school campaigns, park projects, and people giving up their weekends to build something for kids they may never even meet. This is a community where people give their time, their money, their labor, their opinions, and their energy because they want this place to be better.

There are plenty of beautiful places in the world. What makes a place a home is whether people care enough to make it better. Port Angeles has that.

I noticed some job postings for Aldi after googling Port Angeles job listings. Where would they put it? Would be nice if it was a Trader Joe’s instead!

What is up with the loud singular booms?? There’s been like 4 very spread out and my dogs are freaking out. Also it’s nearly 10:30 at night. Wtf??

A lot of people only focus on what is wrong in Clallam County. There are real problems, and nobody should pretend otherwise. But the full picture also includes real progress.

Overdose deaths are down. Alcohol and drug-related deaths declined from 2023 to 2025. Local response programs are connecting more people to services after overdoses, and that means more lives saved. The county dropped from the second-highest overdose fatality rate in Washington to 11th. The projected cost of crime per resident in Clallam County is $383 per year, $81 less than the national average and $227 less than Washington State's average. King County residents, by comparison, pay over $800 per person.

Youth outcomes are improving too. Clallam County’s high school dropout rate is significantly lower than it was a decade ago, and the on-time graduation rate has improved over that same period. Housing is still being added. It is not enough, and we still need more, but new residences continue to be permitted and built. The May 2026 CED Building Report shows 28 total dwelling units YTD in 2026, compared with 16 for this same period in 2025.

The local economy is not standing still either. Payroll jobs were higher in December 2025 than they were a year earlier. As of May 2026, Clallam County's unemployment rate dropped to 4.9%, down from 5.4% the prior month, with employers adding 280 jobs to payrolls.

None of this means every problem is solved. It does mean the story of Clallam County is not only decline as some would have you believe.

Progress is happening. Lives are being saved. More students are graduating. More housing is being added. More people are working.

We should be honest about the challenges, but we should also be honest about the progress.

https://preview.redd.it/jgm9joujnaah1.jpg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cfeb4668379f248a6782295b73bf91113e295a9c

Hi everyone! I’ll be around Olympic NP in early July and hoping to find someone I could tag along with on a hike from the Obstruction Point trailhead? Thinking I would be able to hike there one day around these dates: July 12-13, maybe the 14th. I’m traveling in a camper van (~20’ long) and just a bit worried about being able to drive my van down that road solo, but really want to hike out there! Hoping I can hop in someone else’s vehicle!

I’m a quick/efficient hiker. Mainly looking at Lillian Ridge and/or Grand pass loop.

Cheers!