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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 valley is called the "Valley of the Rain Forest ...
Surface elevation. 190 ft (58 m) Settlements. Amanda Park, Quinault. Lake Quinault (/ kwɪˈnɒlt / or / kwɪˈnɔːlt /) 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.
Quinault River. The Quinault River (/ kwɪˈnɒlt / or / kwɪˈnɔːlt /) 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. It flows southwest through the "Enchanted Valley" to opposite Quinault Canyon.
The Olympic Peninsula is a large arm of land in western Washington that lies across Puget Sound from Seattle, and contains Olympic National Park. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the east by Hood Canal. Cape Alava, the westernmost point in the contiguous United States, and Cape ...
The Quinault Indian Nation (/ kwɪˈnɒlt / or / kwɪˈnɔːlt /; QIN), formerly known as the Quinault Tribe of the Quinault Reservation, is a federally recognized tribe of Quinault, Queets, Quileute, Hoh, Chehalis, Chinook, and Cowlitz peoples. [4] They are a Southwestern Coast Salish people of indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast ...
The Hoh River in winter. The Hoh River is a river of the Pacific Northwest, located on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington.About 56 miles (90 km) long, [3] the Hoh River originates at the snout of Hoh Glacier on Mount Olympus and flows westward through the Olympic Mountains of Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest, then through foothills in a broad valley ...
Clearwater River. The Queets River is a river in the U.S. state of Washington. It is located on the Olympic Peninsula, mostly within the Olympic National Park and empties into the Pacific Ocean. The Queets River is 52.8 miles (85.0 km) long. [4] Its drainage basin is 204 square miles (530 km 2) in area. [5]
Kalaloch / ˈ k l eɪ l ɒ k / is an unincorporated resort area entirely within Olympic National Park in western Jefferson County, Washington, United States. [2] Kalaloch accommodations, which include a lodge, rental cabins, and campgrounds, are on a 50-foot (15 m) bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, west of U.S. Route 101 on the Olympic Peninsula, north of the reservation of the Quinault ...