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Passes

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

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A selection of annual recreation passes

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 day use sites on the Olympic National Forest require a fee. 

List of fee sites

Annual passes cover day-use or entrance fees all year, while single-day passes work for one day. 

Which pass is right for you?

In-person, online, or digital recreation pass sales

Offices

The Olympic National Forest Headquarters office is a one story building, made of timber and stone.

Day and annual passes can be purchased in-person during regular business hours at one of our four office locations.

Fee Machines

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Day passes can be purchased 24-hours a day at our cashless automated fee machine locations at the following locations:

Get Passes Online

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USGS Store: offers a suite of annual and lifetime passes that provides U.S. citizens and visitors an affordable and convenient way to access Federal recreational lands. 

Discover Your Northwest: This non-profit partner offers online purchase of Annual and Day-use passes.

Recreation.gov Mobile App

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Download the Recreation.gov mobile app to Scan & Pay your day use fee on-site! Even in remote areas with no cell service, Scan & Pay allows you to pay when you’re offline and then processes your transaction once you’re back online.

Vendors

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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.

Last updated May 22nd, 2025