Olympic Nat’l Park
Boulder Lake, Olympic Nat’l Park
Happy Lake, Olympic Nat’l Park
Sol Duc Kiosk Loop, Olympic Nat’l Park
Sol Duc Kiosk Loop is just a few yards up from the start of Sol Duct Hot Springs Road, just west of Lake Crescent in the Olympic National Park. The kiosk comes before the entrance gate. The loop is a piece of the old road, with parking and large nice display boards.
Keith Wallace Pullout, Lake Crescent, Olympic Nat’l Park
Keith Wallace is the informal name of a relatively lengthy, wide, double-sided pullout along Lake Crescent, in the Olympic National Park. There is a small rocky beach, with the stumps of old dock-pilings. In times past there were structures on the upland side.
Obstruction Point Road, Hurricane Ridge, Olympic Nat’l Park ridge-top primitive drive in alpine beauty
Obstruction Point Road follows a 12 mile route along the crest of a main ridge on the north front-range of the Olympic Mountains. It starts from near the north end of the Hurricane Ridge Lodge parking, and ends at the Obstruction Point Trailhead, on Obstruction Point.
Mineralized stream, West Lake Mills Trail, Olympic Nat’l Park
Mineralized stream, West Lake Mills Trail follows the former shoreline of the former Lake Mills, now drained as part of the Elwha River Restoration Project. Well out along this 2 mile trail is a small stream, in which everything the water flows over and splashes on, is heavily encrusted with lime.
Mineralized stream, Michael’s Cabin, Elwha River, Olympic Nat’l Park
Michael’s Cabin is a preserved historic log cabin about 1.8 mi from the beginning of the Elwha River Trail, a major trail in Olympic National Park. Near this cabin a small brook crosses the trail, and everything the water touches or splashes on is coated with (what looks like) lime.
Olympic Mountains Trail Guide National Park and National Forest
This is the book that typical and normal hikers & backpackers will want for the Olympic National Park. I bears every sign of having been a labor of love by author Robert Wood, and has been a fixture of local outdoors & tourist book-racks, since the 1980s.
Mount Seattle, Olympic Nat’l Park
Mount Seattle, in Olympic National Park, is on the west side of the Low Divide between the headwaters of the Elwha River to the north, and the North Fork Quinault River to the south. The trails in these two river valleys, joined at the Low Divide pass, forming the primary north-south route through the Park.