North America · Illustrated record
Ruby Beach
Forks · United States
The short version, from the cited sources
Ruby Beach is the signature shore of Olympic National Park's wilderness coast in Washington state: sea stacks rising from a grey strand heaped with bleached drift logs, tidepools at low water and fog that comes and goes through the day. Its name refers to garnet traces that can tint the sand. This is a cold-water walking and tidepooling beach inside a national park, with the wildness of the setting as the entire point.
- Country
- United States (US)
- Region
- North America
- Sand
- Grey, driftwood-strewn
- Water
- Cold pacific surf
- Coast
- On the Pacific Ocean
- Administrative area
- Washington
- Timezone
- America/Los_Angeles
- Source family
- GeoNames
- Source updated
- 2007-02-14
Names in the record
Ruby Beach
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Source position
47.71091, -124.41548
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Direct provenance
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- GeoNames Gazetteer ExtractGeoNames ↗
Beach features T.BCH and T.BCHS from the dated global dump; supplied as-is by GeoNames.
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