Rialto Beach and Hole-in-the-Wall

A magician named the beach. Claude Alexander Conlin — stage illusionist, Mora homeowner in the 1920s — called it Rialto after the theater chain he admired, then lost his house to fire sometime in the 1930s. What remains is the beach itself: a stretch of Olympic National Park coastline north of the Quillayute River, facing sea stacks and a rock arch called Hole-in-the-Wall, carved by surf and accessible at low tide. The arch is the reason to go. Time your arrival accordingly.