On older maps it is shown as Fuca or De Fuca, the latter once being the name of the post office. It was named for Charles Agnew, a farmer and logger, who settled there in 1865. The Dungeness area Aircraft Warning Services Observation Tower stands near Agnew and is a rare reflection of the role of civilian volunteers in protecting American security and contributing to the home front war effort...

This creek rises in Olympic National Park in east central Clallam County and flows east and north to the Strait of Juan de Fuca east of Port Angeles. The stream was named for David Waterman Morse, a pioneer storekeeper, who was born on Morse Creek on April 19,1863. Eben G. Morse and Davis W. Morse homesteaded on the creek in 1863. It had previously been called Chambers Creek for Frank...

Mile: 252

The Elwha River rises in the Elwha Basin of the Olympic National Park southeast of Mount Olympus. It flows north through Lake Mills (Elwha Reservoir) and Lake Aldwell, to the Strait of Juan de Fuca near Angeles Point. The river was charted under the present Native American name by Capt. Henry Kellett in 1847.

The name is a Quillayute word, E-ilth-quat, meaning "elk." When a post office was established it was named McDonald for W. D. McDonald, the first settler and postmaster. His name is now on a mountain with an elevation of 2570 feet southeast of the community.

Points of Interest

Hansen Barn

Mile: 239

Tour affords fleeting glimpses of Lake Sutherland, a slipper-shaped body of water in a narrow basin near the foot of Mount Storm King. West of Lake Sutherland the highway winds about precipitous bluffs. This lake was named for John J. Sutherland, who came from Victoria with John Everett in 1856 to hunt and trap. He sold his furs to the Hudson's Bay Company post at Victoria. They also trapped on...

Mile: 234

A lake north of Crescent Mountain at the head of the South Fork of Spukwush Creek in the northwest sector of Mount Rainer National Park was named for nearby Crescent Mountain. It is drained by Spukwush Creek to the Carbon River.     Tour skirts the south shore of the lake. Cupped about by steep, forested mountain slopes, the lake’s smooth surface reflects an alpine setting that has made it...

Mile: 229

Barnes Point is northeast of the mouth of Barnes Creek which empties into the south side of Lake Crescent. It was named for the Barnes family who settled nearby. The bulk of Mount Storm King rises to the south with the peaks of Lizard Head, Aurora, and Sourdough to the south and west.

Points of Interest

Rosemary Inn

Storm King Ranger Station

Mount Storm King

Singer’s Lake Crescent Tavern

Mile: 228

On the southwest shore of Lake Crescent. The name is French for frying pan or stove. The French spelling, La poele, was altered to La-po-el when it was adopted into Chinook Jargon. The place consists of a camp and guard station. Parratt notes that LaPoel creek rises in the hills below Sourdough Mountain and flows north into Lake Crescent and that for a time LaPoel, was "....once a bustling truck...

Mile: 224

One of the largest and longest rivers on the peninsula, the Soleduck River rises in Soleduck Park near High Divide in south central Clallam County and flows west to join the Bogachiel River east of La Push, where the two streams form the Quillayute River. Soleduck Park is a mountain meadow nearly a half mile long at the head of the Soleduck River and nearby Bridge Creek northwest of Mount...

Mile: 215

Once a Bloedel-Donovan logging camp. By the 1940s, nondescript cottages, lined one against the other in a vast expanse of logged-off lands, and provided a startling contrast to the clean immensity of their mountain surroundings and to the swift rush of the Soleduck River, which flowed at their doorsteps. Not much remains in Sappho, save the logging operations of Rayonier and access to the Tumbling Rapids Recreation Area at nearby...

Mile: 204

A remnant of a former logging camp, is the site of the Lake Tyee Forest Camp. It was named for Beaver Creek. In 1911 it boasted a post office, hotel, store, and a public school. The prairie upon which it is located was called the “Heart of the Solduck Valley.” On the north side of US 101 sits the brick veneer, wood-frame Beaver School (1916). Several later buildings on the...

Mile: 202

The site of a projected community of Lake Pleasant which was to be built for the United States Army to house some 3,000 loggers and mill workers who were to produce spruce lumber for the World War One effort. The war ended before work got beyond the planning stages. The architectural firm of Bebb and Gould designed a community which was to be a model for lumber town construction of...

Mile: 200