The Dosewallips River ( / ˌ d oʊ s ɪ ˈ w ɔː l ɪ p s / DOH -si- WAW -lips ) is a river situated on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington . It rises near Mount Anderson in the Olympic Mountains within Olympic National Park and drains to Hood Canal and thence to the Pacific Ocean .
6-608: Dosewallips State Park is a public recreation area located where the Dosewallips River empties into Hood Canal in Jefferson County , Washington . The state park 's 1,064 acres (431 ha) include both freshwater and saltwater shorelines. The park offers opportunities for picnicking, camping, hiking, boating, fishing, swimming, scuba diving, and shellfish harvesting. The park was acquired in four separate purchases between 1954 and 1972. The park's flats were
12-426: A herd of elk . The beach is described as "excellent" for the presence of Manila littleneck clams , native littleneck clams , and oysters . Butter clams , cockles , horse clams and geoducks can also be found. Dosewallips River The river originates in two forks, which join about five miles from the headwaters. The National Park Service maintains trails and campsites along both forks, including one at
18-706: A woman into Mount Rainier and her son into Little Tahoma . In 1923, the Washington State Department of Highways built a steel truss bridge over the river near its mouth in Brinnon to carry U.S. Route 101 . In 1982, the Jefferson County Public Utility District proposed the construction of a 10.4-megawatt hydroelectric dam on the river near the Elkhorn Campground. Controversy over
24-745: The fork itself. The road leading to the trailhead was washed out in January 2002, and the ranger station near the trailhead has been abandoned. The entire estuary of the Dosewallips is within Dosewallips State Park and ongoing restoration efforts led by Wild Fish Conservancy, the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe , and the Hood Canal Coordinating Council are intended to improve salmon habitat through
30-487: The reconnection of the river to its historical floodplain . The name Dosewallips comes from a Twana Indian myth about a man named Dos-wail-opsh who was turned into a mountain at the river's source. There are also several Klallam legends about the "Great Changer", Doquebatl, who transformed a mythical Klallam chief into a mountain at the headwaters of the Dosewallips River. In another story Doquebatl changed
36-399: The site of several old homesteads in an area known as Dose Meadows. The railroad beds found in the park's far southeast side are leftover from the days when timber was hauled by rail from the mountains to be deposited in the water and floated off to ships and mills. Four species of wild salmon and steelhead use the Dosewallips River for spawning, and the park provides wintering grounds for
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