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The Quinault River (/ k w ɪ ˈ n ɒ l t / or / k w ɪ ˈ n ɔː l t /) is a 69-mile (111 km) long [2] river located on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington.It originates deep in the Olympic Mountains in the Olympic National Park.
The Quinault Reservation was founded in 1855 with the signing of the Treaty of Olympia (also known as the Quinault River Treaty) with the United States. [8] The reservation covers 208,150 acres (84,240 ha) and includes 23 miles (37 km) of Pacific coastline, [ 4 ] located on the southwestern corner of the Olympic Peninsula .
Lake Quinault (/ k w ɪ ˈ n ɒ l t / or / k w ɪ ˈ n ɔː l t /) is a lake on the Olympic Peninsula in western Washington state. It is located in the glacial -carved Quinault Valley of the Quinault River , at the southern edge of Olympic National Park in the northwestern United States.
The Quinault Rain Forest is a temperate rain forest, which is part of the Olympic National Park and the Olympic National Forest in the U.S. state of Washington in Grays Harbor and Jefferson Counties. The rain forest is located in the valley formed by the Quinault River and Lake Quinault .
The Quinault people settled onto reservation lands after signing the Quinault Treaty with the former Washington Territory in 1856. About 60% of the reservation's population lives in the community of Taholah, on the Pacific coast at the mouth of the Quinault River.
It lies opposite the Quinault Reservation. [3]From the map, it is clear the Quinault River drains into the Pacific Ocean, opposite Quinault Canyon.The north of the Copalis National Wildlife Refuge is also a bit east, as are a few cities and sites, as Kalaloch, Queets, Taholah, Point Grenville (a headland), Moclips, and Pacific Beach.
Quinault River Collapsed three times. Was an early cable-stayed bridge design on the Quinault Indian Reservation near Taholah , one of the first cable-stayed bridges in the U.S. [ 16 ] Timbers made into cedar shakes for tribal center in Taholah after 1988 collapse.
The area that comprises modern-day Grays Harbor County is the ancestral territory of several indigenous Coast Salish peoples, including the Quinault and Lower Chehalis.They first came into contact with European explorers in the late 18th century and the tribes were later afflicted by regional epidemics.