Alerts & Notices

Conditions

Remember, conditions can change rapidly, especially in backcountry areas. Always check weather reports before your trip, pack the ten essentials and be prepared for all kinds of weather. Bring plenty of water and pack out all trash. Review our safety tips.  

Forest Roads Contact your local ranger office to inquire about a specific route. Wildlife gates are closed from October 1 until May 1. Forest roads are prone to flooding and washouts. Never attempt to cross road washouts as you could easily get trapped. Travel with your lights on, obey speed limits, and watch for pedestrians and other vehicles.

Washington Roads (wsdot.wa.gov): Washington traffic cameras; Olympic Peninsula Washington roads map

	Things to Know: Information to help you plan ahead such as passes, maps, regulations, & safety.
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Alerts

• Olympic National Forest Enters Campfire Phase 1 Restrictions

  Date(s): Aug 10, 2022

  The Olympic National Forest entered campfire restrictions Phase 1, which limits campfire use to designated campgrounds within fire rings. To see a list of campgrounds still allowing campfires and other details please follow this link. 

• Flood Damage & Road Closure Updates

  Date(s): Dec 8, 2021

  Contact(s): Quilcene Office

  Closure Order: 06-09-21-06 
  
  Map of the damaged area
  
  Closed Roads:

  • Forest Service Road 29 (Sitkum-Solduc Rd / “A” Road) – Closed between mile post 10.6 and 33.9
  • Forest Service Road 2922 – Closed at about mile post 2.0 for the rest of the roadway
  • Forest Service Road 30 – Closed between mile post 8.5 to 10.5

  Learn more about flood damage and road closures here

• Temp Road Closure on FS Road 2480

  Date(s): Jul 8, 2022

  Forest Service Road 2480 will close between MP 2.5 -3.5 on July 14th. 

  Additionally the road will be closed from approximately MP 5.1 (just after the junction with FSR 2401) to MP 5.4 between July 11th and 15th for worker safety while excavation of a tar ditch on DNR land along the road occurs. Those hoping to gain access to Elk Lake and Jefferson Lake will need to use the 24 (Jorsted) road network (Jorsted to 2480 to 2401) instead of FS-25 (Hamma Hamma Corridor).

• Sustainable Trails Feedback Form now Available

  Date(s): Jun 3, 2022

  Sustainable Trails is a resilient system consisting of a wide array of well planned, well-designed, well-constructed, and well managed trails that are supported by a mosaic of public and private interests. The Olympic National Forest is teaming with partners and volunteers to understand how we can create a more sustainable trail system across the Olympic Peninsula.

  Visitors are encouraged to fill out the Sustainable Trails feedback form to provide land managers diverse feedback on trails across the national forest. 

   

• Herbicide applications to occur on Olympic National Forest

  Date(s): Apr 22, 2022

  The Olympic National Forest may be applying the herbicides glyphosate, clopyralid, triclopyr, aminopyralid, sulfometuron methyl, or imazapyr to noxious weeds or other invasive plant species from April 25 – November 18, 2022. Limited injection or cut stump treatments may be conducted from November 19, 2022 – April 22, 2023. Please see the following spreadsheet and maps for a more detail about treatment areas.

  Applications will be conducted as planned in the Final EIS-Olympic National Forest Site Specific Invasive Plant Treatment Project, which was finalized in 2008. Notices indicating that the formulation of the herbicide to be applied will be posted at entrances to the target road systems and/or individual sites. For questions about applications contact Nick Jarvis, Invasive Plant Program Coordinator at (360) 956-2319.

• Alcohol Ban along Lake Cushman Corridor (FS-24) remains in effect

  Area(s): Lake Cushman Area, Bear Gulch Day Use Area, Copper Creek Trail #876, Copper Creek Trailhead, Dry Creek East Trailhead, Dry Creek Trail #872, Mt. Rose Trail #814, Mt. Rose Trailhead

  Date(s): May 14, 2021

  With support from the National Park Service, Mason County, Tacoma Power, Washington State Patrol, the Skokomish Tribe, and other local partners the Olympic National Forest implemented a revised forest order that adds an alcohol ban to the existing prohibitions on camping, fires, and overnight parking along the Lake Cushman Corridor (FS-24) on May 21, 2021. Learn more here. 

• Forest Road 2421 Remains Inaccessible

  Date(s): Mar 9, 2021

  Forest Service Road 2421 is currently inaccessible approximately 1.5 miles from the 2480 junction due to road damage. Jefferson Ridge Trailhead is not accessible at this time