Rialto Beach, Public beach at Olympic National Park, United States.

Rialto Beach is a pebble and gravel beach on the Pacific Ocean in Olympic National Park, north of the Quillayute River mouth. A dense line of evergreen trees stands behind the stones, and bleached driftwood logs and root masses lie scattered across the foreground. Offshore, sea stacks and James Island rise from the water.

The beach took its name from Claude Alexander Conlin, a magician who settled in the area in the early 1900s. The region has long served indigenous peoples as a vital coastal resource area.

The name comes from Claude Alexander Conlin, a magician who named the shore after the Rialto theater chain; his Mora home burned in the 1930s. South of the Quillayute River mouth lies La Push, part of the Quileute Indian Reservation, whose people have long used this coast.

Wear sturdy shoes when walking along the shore due to rocks and driftwood scattered across the beach. Plan your visit around tide schedules, as some areas become inaccessible when water levels rise.

Rialto Beach holds a tree graveyard: hundreds of bleached trunks and tangled root masses, washed down and thrown up by storms, lie across the dark gravel. The long pale log in the foreground and the broken stump at the forest edge are part of it. The nearby Hole-in-the-Wall, a rock arch cut by surf, stands beyond the driftwood line.