Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
This 4 mile side trip leads out to the delta and wildlife refuge.
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Spur or ‘side-trip’ off the main tour leg.
Point of interest along the tour leg.
Built in 1911, and the structure was the fourth school to serve one of the state's oldest districts--succeeding a home-taught school, a log school, and an earlier frame school-- and graphically illustrates the evolution of rural education in the county. The Nisqually school was the longest lived of Thurston County's two-room frame schools built just after the turn of the century, remaining in active use until 1962. Today, the building...
Learn more about Nisqually SchoolThis wildlife refuge is northeast of Olympia in Thurston County north of Interstate Highway Five on the Nisqually Delta. Consisting of 2,820 acres the game refuge consists of 39,700 feet of Puget Sound shoreline, the mouth of the Nisqually River, McAllister Creek and Salmon Creek.
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