Dosewallips River
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The Dosewallips River (pronounced "dohs-WAH'-lips"[1]) is a river situated on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. It rises near Mount Anderson in the Olympic Mountains within the Olympic National Park and drains to Hood Canal and thence to the Pacific Ocean.
The river starts out at two forks, which join about five miles from the headwaters. The National Park Service maintains trails and campsites along both forks, including one at the fork itself. The road leading to the trailhead has been washed out, and the ranger station near the trailhead has been abandoned.
The entire estuary of the Dosewallips is within Dosewallips State Park and ongoing restoration efforts led by Washington Trout, the Port Gamble S'Kalallam Tribe, and the Hood Canal Coordinating Council are intended to improve salmon habitat through the reconnection of the river to its historical floodplain.
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