Sitka, USA

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"Here is a list of Pet Friendly Hotels in Sitka based on reviews from across the web."
uptake.com:  Pet Friendly Hotels in Sitka

"This is bear country, so make noise if you are travelling in an area with limited visibility (most of this area has very poor visibility, due to the extreme amounts of vegitation.) Also, cougars do live in Olympic National park, and are much more aggresive and dangerous than bears."
wikitravel.org

"Though much of the Olympic Peninsula was designated a National Forest Preserve in 1897, and in 1909 became a national monument, it was not until 1938 that the heart of the peninsula -- the jagged, snowcapped Olympic Mountains -- became Olympic National Park."
frommers.com

"It has been said that Olympic National Park and the wilder edges of the Olympic National Forest abutting it are entitled to claim the gold medal for sprouting more champion conifers than any area of comparable size in the United States."
magma.nationalgeographic.com

"The Battle of Sitka (1804) was the last major armed conflict between Europeans and Alaska Natives ,and was initiated in response to the destruction of a Russian trading post two years prior."
en.wikipedia.org

"Thanks to the efforts of one extraordinary cleric, Bishop Innocent Veniaminov, Alaska Natives were able to worship in their own languages, winning for the Russian Orthodox Church many villages' continuing loyalty over less tolerant Protestant churches that came under American rule."
frommers.com