A little place called Forks

After departing the Lake Quinalt area, we headed northward and followed the signs to the Upper Queets river. This took us far off the beaten track into some pretty remote country. We were rewarded by a beautiful auto trail through some truly quiet country.

After the Queets valley the road shifts toward the coast and the National Park includes some beautiful beaches covered in rounded stones and massive driftwood (full sized trees). We stopped and hiked around at several and soaked in the peaceful scenery.




As twilight set in we rolled up to the formerly backwater town of Forks. We were here back in 2002 and the glitz and glamour of book and movie exposure has meant big changes for Forks. Such as all the hotels have slogans like "Welcome to the Twilight Zone" and there's a store dedicated to selling Twilight memoribilia. In all seriousness it is still the same quiet town, complete with a herd of elk grazing on the runway of the airport.

We drove past Lake Crescent (which even in the dark is one of the most beautiful lakes I have ever seen) and ended the day with wonderful Thai food in Port Angeles near the Downtown Inn where we will spend the night.




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Location:Forks, WA