USPS stamp set includes popular Clallam County landmark

By Matthew Nash • August 10, 2022 1:30 am
Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ A new USPS stamp set, seen here in the Carlsborg Post Office, celebrating 50 years of the National Marine Sanctuary system includes Crying Lady Rock on Second Beach just outside La Push in Clallam County. It’s available nationwide and online.
Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash/ A new USPS stamp set, seen here in the Carlsborg Post Office, celebrating 50 years of the National Marine Sanctuary system includes Crying Lady Rock on Second Beach just outside La Push in Clallam County. It’s available nationwide and online.

One of the more scenic spots on the Olympic Peninsula made its way onto a stamp set to help celebrate the National Marine Sanctuary system’s 50th anniversary.

Crying Lady Rock on Second Beach, just outside La Push in Clallam County, is featured in the U.S. Postal Service’s commemorative set.

It’s one of 16 photos of wildlife and ecosystems in America’s national marine sanctuaries and national monuments photographed by the public and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration staff.

The National Marine Sanctuaries Forever stamp series released on Aug. 5 at post offices nationwide, with 38 million produced at $9.60 per sheet. They are also available at usps.com/stamps.

Crying Lady Rock is part of the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, which spans 3,188 square miles of marine waters off the Olympic Peninsula coastline and extends 25-40 miles seaward.

Visitors can access the sanctuary from an approximate 0.7-of-a-mile forested trail with a 2-mile stretch of beach by the rock.

The Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary protects marine mammals, seabird faunas, kelp and intertidal algae populations, and invertebrate communities with about 48 miles open for visitors to see beaches, shoreline, tidepools and more.

Stamp sets commemorate the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act being signed into law Oct 23, 1972.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries serves as the trustee for more than 620,000 square miles of marine and Great Lakes waters with 15 national marine sanctuaries and two marine national monuments, including Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary.

Olympic Coast Discovery Center, 115 E. Railroad Ave. in The Landing, Port Angeles, operated by NOAA’s Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary docents, is open 10 a.m.–5 p.m. daily for free through Labor Day, and will remain open Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. from September to mid-October.

For more information, call 360-452-3255 or visit olympiccoast.noaa.gov.

Photo courtesy USPS Crying Lady Rock on Second Beach in Clallam County is part of a stamp set celebrating the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act being signed into law Oct. 23, 1972. It features a photograph by Matt McIntosh.

Photo courtesy USPS Crying Lady Rock on Second Beach in Clallam County is part of a stamp set celebrating the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act being signed into law Oct. 23, 1972. It features a photograph by Matt McIntosh.

Photo courtesy USPS/ A new stamp set from the U.S. Postal Service includes a scene from Clallam County and 15 other photos of wildlife and ecosystems in America’s national marine sanctuaries and marine national monuments.

Photo courtesy USPS/ A new stamp set from the U.S. Postal Service includes a scene from Clallam County and 15 other photos of wildlife and ecosystems in America’s national marine sanctuaries and marine national monuments.