The Lake Crescent Lodge is located within the Olympic National Park west of Port Angeles where our cruise ship was docked. It is owned by the National Park Service. The historic lodge hosted many celebrities back in the day including President in 1937, Henry Ford, Frank Sinatra and Robert Kennedy. The latter was purported to have received a phone call from his brother JFK after the death of Marilyn Monroe that was reported to have lasted two hours. The phone booth where the phone call took place still sits conspicuously in the corner of the lodge. Afterwards, I took a solitary stroll along the pristine, glacially formed Lake Crescent and entered a quiet and majestic old growth forest where for thousands of years Native America Indian tribes lived and traded.
