Olympic National Park Alpine Zone (Seven Lakes Basin)

The Wikipedia article notes Seven Lakes Basin almost as an aside — a parenthetical example of the toil that backcountry hiking in Olympic National Park demands. That's the honest entry point. Olympic National Park's alpine zone encompasses subalpine forest, wildflower meadow, and glaciated peaks on a peninsula that remained largely unmapped until the turn of the 20th century. The basin sits within that wilderness. Go because the park's interior rewards exactly the effort required to reach it.