10 Facts About Olympia Washington

Site of Olympia Washington had been home to Lushootseed-speaking peoples known as the Steh-Chass for thousands of years.

Olympia Washington is at the southern end of Puget Sound on Budd Inlet.

Olympia Washington has a wide array of public parks and nature conservation areas.

Efforts to protect and preserve the free-flowing artesian well on 4th Ave in downtown Olympia Washington began in 1991 when Jim Ingersoll, a local psychologist, called on the city council to acquire the well and develop it as a community park.

Murals and public art installations of sculpture are prevalent in Olympia Washington and are especially featured on the State Capitol Campus and along Percival Landing on the urban waterfront.

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Evergreen State College, northwest of Olympia Washington, has a professionally curated gallery with rotating shows in the Dan Evans Library building.

Olympia Washington is the home of the Oly Rollers, the local women's flat track roller derby league whose travel team, the Cosa Nostra Donnas, were the 2009 national champions of the Women's Flat Track Derby Association, winning the national Declaration of Derby tournament in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Intercity Transit's Olympia Washington Express provides service to Lakewood and Tacoma, with connections to regional bus and commuter rail service.

Since 1983, Olympia Washington has had a public, educational and government access television station, which was rebranded in 2016 as Thurston Community Media.

Olympia Washington sits on the southern fringe of the FM signal of National Public Radio member station KUOW.