Elwha River Trail, Whiskey Bend Trailhead
Whiskey Bend Trailhead is an important starting point for both deep backcountry access into the Olympic National Park, and for the very popular Humes Ranch and Geyser Valley day-hiking and family-camping area, both via the Elwha River Trail. It is also the start of a 7.9 mile peripheral through-hike on Wolf Creek Trail, to the Wolf Creek Trailhead, at the Hurricane Hill Picnic Area. This trailhead does require a 4.5 mile drive up the primitive Whiskey Bend Road, which is very marginal (generally not suitable) for trailers and RVs, and will be a bit of an adventure in itself, for plenty of drivers. Just the drive up the road to the trailhead qualifies as an outing, even an event, just to go up, get out for a few minutes, and come back down. … cont’d >