Nearly 460,000 people visited the Hoh Rain Forest last year, Olympic National Park reported. It has been closed for nearly three months.

The forest gets its name from the Hoh River, which continuously flows from Mount Olympus toward the Pacific Coast. However, the true history behind the name’s origin has been lost to time.

Heavy rains that week heightened the river’s flow and caused several ... provides the only access to and from the Hoh Rain Forest Visitor Center, campground, picnic areas and trailheads ...

The forest gets its name from the Hoh River, which continuously flows from Mount Olympus toward the Pacific Coast. However, the true history behind the name’s origin has been lost to time.

A popular destination in the Olympic National Park has been closed with no timeline for reopening. Because the Upper Hoh Rain Forest Road is the only route to the rainforest’s trailheads, its closure ...

One visitor described walking in the forest as a "Hansel and Gretel-type ... on the shoulder of Mount Olympus, called the Hoh River Trail. The Hoh sits on the west side of Olympic National Park ...

Washington state officials hope revising a disaster declaration will bring federal aid to reopen the Hoh Rainforest in Olympic National Park. In December, the Hoh River took out Jefferson County ...

accompany you on the Hoh River Trail. Also, keep an ear out for bugles from the herd of elk that live in the rainforest. And then there’s the rain; Hoh gets 12 feet of it per year. You don’t ...

Heavy rains elevated the neighboring Hoh River, eroding part of the county-maintained road, causing the park to announce the ...

PORT TOWNSEND — Commissioners from Jefferson and Clallam counties may have identified a funding source to repair damages sustained to the Upper Hoh Road when the river surged in December ... only ...

called the Hoh River Trail. With an annual rainfall ranging from 140 to 170 inches, the Hoh Rain Forest is a lush, green wonderland, with mosses and ferns covering every tree and surface.