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The only rain forest within the continental USA is in the state of Washington. Therefore, you would need to take a car and drive 45 hours to Hoh Rain Forest in the Olympic National Park.
Olympic National Forest was created in 1897.
The area of Olympic National Forest is 2,564.4 square kilometers.
- Sagana Bamboo Forest in Japan- Sequoia National Forest in California- Redwood National Park in California- Black Forest in Germany- Crooked Forest in Poland- Jiuzhaigou Valley in China- Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve in Costa Rica- Daintree Rainforest in Australia- Amazon Rainforest in South America- Olympic National Forest in Washington
Established as Olympic Forest Reserve in 1897. Name was changed to Olympic National Forest in 1907. Olympic National Park created in 1938. I got this from the U.S. forest service website.
boreal forest
There is a temperate rainforest on the olympic peninsula in WA. There are no tropical forests in North America. Another Answer: There is still 1/2 acre left of Tropical Rain Forest in Miami-Dade county of the original 45 square mile Biscayne Rain Forest!
George Washington State Forest was created in 1931.
Both tropical forest and scrub forest. Scrub forest is limited to the northwestern section of the peninsula, due to wind currents (e.g. lower amounts of rainfall).
Canada doesn't have a rainforest. The only rainforest in North America is the Olympic rainforest in Washington.
The Washington Forest