A 110-acre tract of woodland with a picnicking and camping area along the river. A trail here follows the stream to its headwaters. The park is near the Bogachiel, a community on the north bank of the Bogachiel River. A post office was established in May of 1892 and closed in February of 1898. The post office was reestablished in 1901 and discontinued in 1912.

Mile: 186

A store, service station, and cabin camp are perched on cliffs above the rumbling surf. Here and there a break in the trees affords a glimpse of white foam flying against the rocky embankment. A trail leads down the bluff 300 yards to the beach. Here huge rocks stand like stone pillars against the sea. Drifting logs and broken trees are ground to bits in the surge of breakers. Offshore,...

Mile: 165

The tour skirts the shoreline of the Pacific. A rhythmical sweep of water rolls up the broad beach, breaking into foaming crests and spuming into small, rocky inlets. A turnout affords a wide view of the Pacific. To the north a succession of bold promontories reaches into the sea. Westward is Destruction Island, about four and a half miles offshore, grim and forbidding as a fortress. In 1775, the Spanish...

Mile: 163

The name is the Quinault Indian term for "...good place to land." It is considered the only safe landing place for canoes between the Hoh and Queets rivers. There was a post office there between 1928 and 1956. The village is noted for the trout, starfish, mussels, sea anemones, and other salt-water specimens found along the shore. Ducks, hell-divers, and loons dive in pursuit of their prey; gulls plunge in...

Points of Interest

Brown’s Point

Kalaloch Creek

Mile: 157

It was named for the once-powerful Quiatso Indian tribe which inhabited the area when the first white explorers came to this coast. The name is from a Indian legend in which The Great Spirit waded across a river and rubbed his legs to restore circulation. He then threw the rolls of dirt which came from his legs, and they landed in the river. Out came a man and a woman...

Mile: 152

A small settlement a few hundred yards from the lake, which is blocked from view here by a dense forest. It was founded in 1925 as a tourist camp with summer homes for rent or sale. The name is for the wife of J. J. Southard, co-founder of the place. Quinault Lake, part of the Quinault Reservation, is situated in a recreational area of great beauty. Tribal members of the...

Mile: 127

When a post office was established in 1910 the settlement had been called Jonesville for Neil A. Jones, an early settler who established the first store in the area. Postal authorities rejected that name because of a town by the same name in Klickitat County. The applicants switched to the storekeeper's first name, which was accepted.

Mile: 123

At one time it consisted of an area of beach cottages north of the Roosevelt Beach development. There is a forest on the upland side.

Mile: 27

A resort area on the Pacific Ocean, it has an excellent sandy beach and several mineral springs are nearby. The name is for the iron content in the springs, which gives a rusty taste to the water and a reddish color to the ground.

Mile: 25

Once the center of cranberry culture on the Pacific Ocean it is now a resort community and the center of the local trading area. Features with the name Copalis refer to an Indian term meaning, "...opposite the rock..." having to do with a large rock off the shore of the Pacific Ocean north of the mouth of the Copalis River. A local band of Native Americans were called Copalis. Toward...

Mile: 21

A scattered community along the Pacific Ocean beach, in the 1890s, this descriptive name was given by local residents who hoped for a city to be built there. Motor lodges and motels seemingly from a bygone era provide vacationers access to wide swaths of beach where vehicles are still allowed. In the 1940s, crab catching was a popular sport here. Shallow lagoons were left in the sand by the retreating...

Mile: 18

Once a railroad station west of Hoquiam it was heavily promoted by eastern capitalists as a new boom town in 1889 but did not develop. The name describes the proposed city on the harbor.

Mile: 3