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 Kalaloch is an area in Olympic National
Park where US Highway-101 goes out along the Pacific
Coast south of Forks, on the Olympic
Peninsula in Washington
State.
Kalaloch is located at the west end of Jefferson
County in Washington State. Jefferson
County is shown in red
on the Washington State Counties map below on this page.
There
is no city of Kalaloch. There is a national park campground and the
historic Kalaloch Lodge that is a national parks
facility run by a private corporation under contract.
Beaches in the Kalaloch Area
If hiking is not your thing you will have to be satisfied
with the beaches in the Kalaloch area. All of the other Pacific Ocean Beaches in
Olympic National Park require a hike to visit.
There are six different beaches in the Kalaloch
area you can reach by a short path from US-101. Ruby
Beach is the north most
beach and the most photographic. You
will find sea stacks, tide pools, drift wood, sand, and most of all,
beautiful sunsets at Ruby
Beach.
Area
Accommodations
You can camp at the Kalaloch
Campground or stay in one of the rooms or cabins at the Kalaloch
Lodge but if they are full there is no alternative in the area. Closest alternative would be Forks, WA 30
miles north or the Lake
Quinault area 26 miles
to the south.
Driving in the Beahc
You can drive on the beaches in the Ocean
Shores area and some other areas
along the northern Washington
ocean beaches but you can not drive on the beaches
in Olympic National Park. All beaches
north of Moclips,
WA are either Tribal lands or
Olympic National Park.
Getting to Kalaloch
Kalaloch is a destination vacation area.
It is located on the west side of the Olympic Mountains and from Seattle, WA
it is about the same  distance whether you take the
northern route or the southern route to Kalaloch. The southern route involves taking
Interstate-5 to Olympia, about 60 miles, then heading west for 42 miles to
Aberdeen on WA-8 then taking US-101 north for 60 miles to Kalaloch. This route is the shorter of the two at
about 190 miles.
The
northern route to Kalaloch is more scenic. It involves a ferry ride either on the Edmonds – Kingston ferry
and then the Hood Canal Floating Bridge
or the Keystone – Port Townsend ferry from Whidbey Island to get onto US
Highway-101 to go around the northern end of the Olympic Peninsula through
Sequim, Port Angeles, and Forks before
arriving at Lake
Quinault. This route is about 170 miles from Seattle to Lake
Quinault.
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Recommended
attractions in the Kalaloch area
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