Map: Green Trails No. La Push 163s
Favorite Eats After Hike: Pacific Pizza, Kalaloch Lodge, or just Pack A Cooler. You can learn more about these places in my Must Hike Must Eat Eating Out Guide.
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My Hike:
11/27/2017
We visited the Kalaloch campground again in 2017 for Thanksgiving and the weather was MUCH more cooperative. You can tell it is becoming more popular to get away to the coast for the holiday as we had more neighbors. No worries, we were still able to cook up dinner in the fire pit and have some saunters down the beach! We didn’t walk north quite to the next beach but we got in a few hours anyway.
11/26/2016
We were staying at the campground at Kalaloch but our time seemed to be limited for walking the beach at any length either because we arrived after dark or the tide was high (and rain coming down) when we were at our site. We walked a bit at dark the first night and the next morning before giving up and heading into Forks to wait out the rain.
We watched the waves move the large pieces of drift wood about and wondered how the tree over the “cave” managed to keep itself so precariously perched. There was may be a time after a few more good storms when that gal joins her sisters who have been swallowed up by the sea. We made it as far as Brown’s Point and a viewpoint before running out of beach at the higher tide and turned around.
it is possible to walk both south towards the outlet at Kalaloch Lodge and Ranger Station and Beach 2, Beach 1 and South Beach (3 miles one way) as a day hike. To the north about the same distance, Beach 3 and Beach 4 are possible with stamina and a low tide, Brown’s Point can make things inaccessible when the water level is high.
Directions: From Hoquiam follow US 101 north for 70 miles to Kalaloch. (From Forks travel 34 miles south on US 101.) Turn left (west) into Kalaloch Campground (just beyond the lodge and ranger station), and park in the picnic day-use area. Water and restrooms available.
Click here for a continuation of our beach exploration on Beach 4 just to the north. To read more about our trip, head on over to Buried Treasure in The Twilight Zone. I also write more about the Tree of Life here.
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