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  • Olympic Hot Springs Road Closed

    The Elwha Valley's Olympic Hot Springs Road is closed to public entry beyond the Altair Campground during removal of the Glines Canyon Dam. Olympic Hot Springs is not accessible from the Elwha.

  • Elwha River Closures

    Boating is prohibited on the Elwha River from Upper Lake Mills Trail downstream to the Highway 112 bridge, except for the stretch between Altair Campground and the Highway 101 bridge.

  • Changes to Visitor Services Due to Sequestration

    Due to mandatory, across the board budget cuts, some visitor services at Olympic National Park have changed. See the Plan Your Visit section for more information.

Jefferson County Begins Bridge Repair on Upper Hoh Road

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Date: August 1, 2011
Contact: Dave Reynolds, 360-457-0715

The Jefferson County Public Works Department has announced that repairs to the Willoughby Creek Bridge, on Upper Hoh Road near milepost 3.5, will start on August 1.

Access to the Hoh Rain Forest of Olympic National Park will remain open throughout the repair work, but some traffic delays are anticipated. According to Jefferson County officials, the repair work will require a limited number of one-hour closures.

These one-hour closures are scheduled to occur starting August 8 through August 11, and will only occur between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

Jefferson County, which maintains the first 12 miles of the road off of Highway 101, says that electronic message boards, with road closure dates and times, will be posted on each side of the project at least three days in advance of any scheduled road closure.

Olympic National Park visitors can check on the status of park roads online by accessing the Current Conditions section of the park website.

Seton Construction of Port Townsend, Wash. will repair damage caused by erosion in order to prevent bridge failure. Repairs will include driving sheet pile in order to stabilize the slope, placement of streambank protection and installation of logjams to divert water under the bridge.

Work is expected to last through mid-September, though no additional closures are expected.

Did You Know?

snow covered forest and meadow

That endemic Olympic snow moles are scurrying beneath this blanket of snow?  Olympic National Park's Hurricane Ridge is blanketed with over ten feet of snow for most of the winter, providing water for summer and protection for snow moles in winter.