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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 ]
The Olympic Peninsula is home to temperate rain forests, including the Hoh, Queets Rain Forest, and Quinault. Rain forest vegetation is concentrated primarily in the western part of the peninsula, as the interior mountains create a rain shadow effect in areas to the northeast, resulting in a much drier climate in those locales.
The Queets Fir is a superlative Douglas fir about 2.5 miles from the Queets River Trail trailhead, [1] [2] on Coal Creek, a tributary of Queets River in the Olympic National Park in Washington State. It was known for fifty years, beginning in 1945, as the largest known fir by volume, and is still largest known in diameter. [ 3 ]
As stated in the foundation document: [12] The purpose of Olympic National Park is to preserve for the benefit, use, and enjoyment of the people, a large wilderness park containing the finest sample of primeval forest of Sitka spruce, western hemlock, Douglas fir, and western red cedar in the entire United States; to provide suitable winter range and permanent protection for the herds of ...
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 ...
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 valley is called the "Valley of the Rain Forest ...
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.