Lake Cushman
This 9 mile side trip travels up into the mountains abutting Hood Canal to Lake Cushman, created as part of the City of Tacoma’s hydroelectric power development.
Like what you see? Want to share it?
Clicking a crosshair will take you to that location on the map.
Start or the end of a tour leg.
Waypoint or town along the tour leg with more information.
Key waypoints and Main Street communities along the tour leg. Sites you do not want to miss!
Point of interest along the tour leg.
Winding grade through cutover land, where small fir, hemlock, and alder nearly obscure the stumps of the magnificent trees that covered these slopes less than 50 years ago. Logging is still carried on farther west in the foothills of the Olympics. Heavy trucks, their trailers loaded with sections of immense trees, have replaced the oxen, which once snaked the logs from the woods; roaring around the curves of the road,...
Learn more about Dow CreekMile: 3
A man-made lake some ten miles in length, furnishes a controlled and dependable supply of water for the Tacoma hydroelectric plant. Early in the 1920s the citizens of Tacoma, led by Homer T. Bone and other champions of public ownership of power, took the legal steps necessary as a preliminary to the construction of this municipally owned project. Two dams, 275 and 240 feet in height respectively, were built across...
Learn more about Lake CushmanPoints of Interest
Cushman Hydroelectric Project
Mile: 5
