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History and Information |
Setting for Paradise |
o Price $390,000 o 54.5 Acres o This Property is the Largest privately held property on the lakeshore. o Junction of major roads next to the property(Hoko/Ozette and SwanBay.) o Big River Frontage through length of property. o Building site with river view. o Tree house cabin on lakeshore. o Boat dock. o Planted with Spruce. o Some old growth spruce, Hemlock and Cedar. o Will entertain any reasonable offer o Short term owner finance may be possible o A lofty unspoiled home site as your own private overlook and base to further explore: o Lake Ozette, largest totally natural lake in the Pacific Northwest. Name in Indian means "lake of the sun" (or spirit). o West coast fringe of the Olympic National Park, the only mountain - heavy timber - seashore national park in the United States. o The temperate Olympic Rain Forest, unique in all the world. o The Olympic Mountains, rugged and usually snow capped, with highest annual precipitation records in the United States. o The Pacific Ocean, looking toward Cape Alava, westernmost point of the contiguous United States, and part of the longest stretch Of road less ocean shore, helping to keep it the only wilderness beach in the contiguous United States. |
The 3-mile trail from the top of Lake Ozette to the Pacific Ocean at Cape Alava leads through coastal forest that is a fitting preface to exploring the larger rain forests to the south. The Olympic Rain Forest, Jean Kirk wrote in her book by that title, "is perhaps the most awesome part of the remnant forest in America. Nowhere is there another forest like it." |
"The wildest, the most remote and, I think, the most picturesque beach area of our whole coastline lies under a pounding surf along the Pacific Ocean in the State of Washington. It is marked as Cape Alava on the north and the Quillayute River on the south. It is a piece of haunting beauty, of deep solitude ... to be whole and harmonious, man must know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it . . ." (from My Wilderness by the late William O. Douglas) In August, 1958, justice Douglas led 67 conservationists along 22 miles of wilderness beach from Cape Alava to Rialto Beach. The hike made national headlines and squashed a proposal to build a road along the coastline. |
Histroical Building More gigantic trees of more different species grow here than anywhere else. The forest also is home to diverse species of bird and wildlife including some 2,500 head of Roosevelt Elk, so named because President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 named 600,000 acres of the forest a National Monument, primarily to save the endangered elk that, by the way, serve as the forest's natural 'landscape gardeners." "After a hard rain," wrote the late Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, a frequent hiker in the forest, "the trees will drip for days. On a bright day, shafts of sunlight fill the rain forest with a soft green light. Rain or shine, this forest has a quiet that is deep and profound. The quiet and the light induces a mood of reverence. This is not a place to run, to shout. This is a cathedral, draped in lichens and made of gigantic trees that are among the great wonders of creation:" |
Lake Ozette - Umbrella Bay Umbrella Bay at Lake Ozette Looking much the same as it did when first seen by white men, the unique wilderness shore stretching from ShiShi Beach to the mouth of the Hoh River is the longest road less coastline remaining in the contiguous United States |
History 0000 Artifacts from the archaeological dig believed by scientists at Washington State University to date back 2000 years. 1592 Juan de Fuca, a Greek seaman with a Spanish name, claimed discovery of the strait off the northern coast of the peninsula. 1775 Bruno Heceta erected a cross at Point Grenville, the first European known to land on Washington coast. 1778 England's Captain James Cook explored the coast and named Mt. Olympus 1792 Salvador Fidalgo built a short-lived fort at Neah Bay, first known European structure in the state. 1845 Border between U.S. and Canada finally settled, but still no white settler anywhere in the 6,000 square mile Olympic Peninsula. 1885 to 1890 Expeditions led by U.S. Army Lt. Joseph O'Neil emphasized ruggedness of mountains and proliferation of elk; recommended that U.S. Senate protect the area. 1897 President Grover Cleveland set aside half of the peninsula as the Olympic Forest Reserve. 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt declares 600,000 acres of the forest a "National Monument," with 7965-foot Mt. Olympus as its centerpiece. 1938 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs bill creating the Olympic National Park. 1953 President Harry Truman adds a 50-mile ocean strip and the Queets Valley corridor to the park. 1981 Conference in Australia adds international recognition naming it a World Heritage Park. |