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Where is Hood Canal?
Hood Canal is a Fjord over 50 miles long located in
northwestern Washington State. Hood
Canal is on the east side of Washington’s famous Olympic Peninsula.
Hood Canal is part of
Washington’s inland coastal waters.
It extends from Admiralty Inlet about 15 miles south of the Strait
of Juan de Fuca. The Strait of Juan
de Fuca is a 15 mile wide strait between Washington’s Olympic Peninsula and
Canada’s Vancouver Island.
Hood Canal is roughly 20 miles west of Seattle. The Kitsap peninsula separates Seattle
and Puget Sound from the Hood Canal.
The cities of the Kitsap Peninsula include Bremerton, Poulsbo,
Silverdale, Gig Harbor, Kingston, and Belfair.
The Canal goes in a south westerly direction west of Puget
Sound and at the southern end turns east north east for 15 miles. With its lack of cities and port
facilities, Hood Canal is used mainly for recreational purposes.
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US Highway 101 travels up the west shore of Hood
Canal so most of the development along the canal has happened along that
roadway.
The towns along the south half of Hood
Canal consist of Lilliwaup,
Hoodsport, Union, Belfair, Allyn, Brinnon, Quilcene, and Shelton.
The communities of Shelton and Allyn are not on the Hood Canal
and in fact,
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Hood Canal
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Hood Canal as seen from the picnic area in Twanoh State
Park
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they are on the Southern end of Puget
Sound. We have included Shelton
because it is only 8 miles from the Hood Canal on Hammersley Inlet in Puget
Sound and it is the largest city in the Southern Hood Canal Area.
Allyn is on Case Inlet which is only about 2.25 miles over land from
the end of Hood Canal.
When you arrive on the canal your
first impression will be of a narrow body of water. Most of the canal is less than 1.5
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miles wide. As you look west from the shores of the
Canal you will see that the Olympic Mountains rise up right in front of
you.
The peak of 5,700 foot high Mt. Washington
lies only eleven miles northwest of Hoodsport. There are no cities on Hood Canal. This area has a lot of unspoiled natural
beauty and the Olympic National Park to the west. This is, in general vacation land. People build summer homes here and come
here to
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A summer home on Hood
Canal
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vacation at the different facilities which include
State Parks, the Olympic National Park, National Forests, and many private
resorts, motels, cabins, RV sites, and campgrounds.
One great thing about this area is
that you get the feeling you are a million miles from civilization when you
are here. However, when you are in
Shelton, you are only 17 miles from Interstate-5 and the City of Olympia.
We took some liberties with the map at
the left to conserve space. Port
Townsend is on a peninsula farther to the north and discovery bay comes
down to the junction of WA Highway 20 and US-101. The object is to give you a feel of where
the small towns and Villages on Hood Canal are located.
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When we drove by in
October of 2005 we could not find the old waterwheel because the roadway on
WA-106 had been altered to accommodate the remodel of the Aldergrove
Resort. The waterwheel is currently
inaccessible.
We found information
about what has happened and what is going to happen on the North Mason
County Chamber website. You can go
right to the page on the link under the photo of the waterwheel.
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Union, Washington’s historic
Dalby Waterwheel
Dalby Waterwheel info.
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