South (and east) of the Pacific Beaches, you have two more opportunities to dart back into Olympic National Park. The first is Queets Road, which hugs the Queets River as it enters a narrow, outstretched finger of the park. The road ends at the Queets Rain Forest, where you can hike to the park’s largest Douglas fir. I passed on that offer, and continued on to Lake Quinault. Lake Quinault is another picturesque lake, backed by the towering mountains of the Olympic range. The North Shore and South Shore roads provide a gravel and asphalt loop around the lake and […]