PORT ANGELES — Olympic National Park crews have completed a temporary foot trail into the Elwha Valley that bypasses the washed-out area of Olympic Hot Springs Road and provides an interim pedestrian ...

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — The National Park Service has released its second environmental assessment related to its effort to restore vehicle access into the heart of the Elwha Valley and, starting ...

Looking for a road trip on this hot, sunny weekend in Western Washington? Olympic National Park has opened a new viewpoint where you can get a look at restoration of the recently undammed Elwha River ...

It’s easy access again to a highly popular Olympic National Park hot springs, as the Boulder Creek Trail and upper portion of Olympic Hot Springs Road in the Elwha Valley re-opened Wednesday. The road ...

A new book from a reporter and photographer at The Seattle Times documents the long and successful battle to remove dams on the Elwha River in Olympic National Park. For more than 25 years, ...

Two antique dams on Washington state's Elwha River are set to be demolished. Brian Smale The nation’s largest and most ambitious dam removal will begin this month, when workers start demolishing two ...

Volunteer planter Rebekkah Curtin of Port Angeles covers the roots of a Douglas fir sapling on the bank of the Elwha River in Olympic National Park. (TRISTAN BAURICK / KITSAP SUN) Olympic National ...

PORT ANGELES — The Elwha River on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula once teemed with legendary salmon runs before two towering concrete dams built nearly a century ago cut off fish access to upstream ...

The Elwha River project began decades ago, long before arguments about dam removal ever heated up in the Pacific Northwest. Brian Winter, Elwha project manager for the National Park Service, says it ...

PORT ANGELES — The Clallam County Sheriff’s Office says copper thieves damaged regulators and knocked out power in the Elwha Valley area of Olympic National Park. Workers with the Clallam County ...

A helicopter team from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island was called in to airlift an injured backpacker out of the Elwha Valley Wednesday morning. Olympic National Park fisheries crew at work in the ...

Want a hike with historic significance? Want a hike along a beautiful river? The lower portion of the Elwha River Trail is your hike. A loop is recommended for a nice family outing. The trail is ...