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The Olympic National Park will be offering free admission this weekend. In addition to free admission to Olympic National Park A forest treasure hunt will be held at the park’s Heart O’ the Hills campground amphitheater from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday. Park rangers will provide a family-friendly, hands-on exploration of the forest around the campground. Attendees should wear weather-appropriate clothing and shoes. The treasure hunts will continue on Saturdays through Sept. 4. The program is free, but the park will have resumed collecting entrance fees next weekend at the Heart O’ the Hills entrance station before the campground. For more information, phone Janis Burger at 360-565-3136. If your looking for night time activates you can Explore the summer night sky indoors at a free, one-hour, all-ages, planetarium-style program at the ONP Visitor Center in Port Angeles, 3002 Mount Angeles Road, at 7 p.m. on Saturday. Or if you would prefer the real thing John Goar will lead a free one-hour astronomy program with telescopes at Hurricane Ridge, 17 miles up a paved road from Port Angeles, in the national park. Meet him at the Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center at 10 p.m. His sky watching programs are every night this week through Sunday night. If skies are cloudy Goar’s program will be canceled. For program status, phone the park phone recording at 360-565-3131 after 4 p.m. the day of the program.