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North Fork Quinault River and Halfway House — Wednesday, Jun. 18, 2025

Olympic Peninsula > Pacific Coast
Wolf Bar

We did one night of backpacking to Wolf Bar. The road to the trailhead is rough with sizable potholes. Our sedan bottomed out several times. The trail was quite brushy and overgrown in places to the extent that I caught my foot on vines and tripped on some rocks in places that I couldn’t see. I’ve hiked this trail before and never seen it in this condition. There is a place where they have built a new trail to avoid a dangerous ledge but it wasn’t marked clearly enough and we started walking out on it before realizing our error. 

Other than those issues, the campsite was great and we had it all to ourselves. Sitting by the river was incredibly peaceful and it looked like the day users had taken care to leave no trace. 

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