# Hurricane Ridge Lodge (Olympic NP) burns to the ground

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**Created:** [May 8, 2023, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ridge-lodge-olympic-np-burns-to-the-ground/983732 "2023-05-08T05:17:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2023, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ridge-lodge-olympic-np-burns-to-the-ground/983732/1 "2023-05-08T05:17:49Z")

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It is a total loss

> **[Hurricane Ridge Day Lodge in Olympic National Park burns to ground](https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/hurricane-ridge-day-lodge-olympic-national-park-burns-ground/FJHP3DQXBNGFHOZMTOQV2YEMLE/)**
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> The Hurricane Ridge Day Lodge in the Olympic National Park burned to the ground on Sunday around 4:30 p.m.

We have not been there that often, but went up there for the transit of Venus and there were a few people with good telescopes who were letting folks have a look.

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**Post date:** [May 8, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ridge-lodge-olympic-np-burns-to-the-ground/983732/2 "2023-05-08T16:11:06Z")

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Never been there, camped in the NP though. Still feel a bit sad about it. Those old NP/NF lodges are just great examples of the way things used to be built.

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**Post date:** [May 8, 2023, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hurricane-ridge-lodge-olympic-np-burns-to-the-ground/983732/3 "2023-05-08T19:56:58Z")

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I remewber going up there as a young’n, picnicking in a meadow, and my dad was going on about hearing pikas. We stayed in Hoh – dad figured everybody else would be home watching Apollo 11 so we would get a primo spot. I ended up following it on the radio. Then we went to one of those beaches that you have to hike half a mile to get to and my brother found a _Der Spiegel_ in the sand that included a story about the astronaut isolation chamber.