OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — With easy road access to trails open for the first time in years, and the river valley in full summer splendor, the Elwha beckons as never before. Where once there was a dam, ...

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Olympic National Park is in a fight with the Elwha River in its goal to maintain visitor access to the Elwha River valley. At the same time, officials are seeing the Elwha ...

OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK — Olympic National Park has installed two new temporary bridges on Olympic Hot Springs Road across the Elwha River, but visitors will still need to walk or bike in if they want ...

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 ...

At the north end of the Olympic Peninsula, trucks carrying massive trees rumble through the City of Port Angeles. Humans here have dramatically altered the old-growth forests that ring the snowy peaks ...

The Elwha River starts at Dodwell-Rixon Pass, a high crack in Washington’s Olympic Mountains. There, a hiker who crossed would find the Elwha Snowfinger, formed by heavy winter storms and the ...

Olympic National Park warns that leftover structural debris at the site of the former Elwha Dam poses a “high risk of serious injury or death” for rafters, paddlers and swimmers on the Elwha River.

PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) â?? The U.S. Highway 101 bridge over the Elwha River could need replacement or retrofitting now that two dams have been removed, allowing the now-wild river to erode the ...

PORT ANGELES, Wash. - For more than 100 years, two dams controlled the Elwha river on the Olympic Peninsula. The Lower Elwha dam was built in 1910, 17 years later and 8 miles further upstream the ...

The Elwha River courses through where the Glines Canyon Dam once stood in November 2014. The co-director of a documentary film on the dam removal project will speak Thursday to the Puget Sound Fly ...

With a big shot of dynamite, the last of Lake Mills drained through what's left of Glines Canyon Dam last week. There's still about 50 feet of the Glines Canyon Dam standing. But the last of the once ...