North Fork of the Skokomish River Hike

A beautiful low elevation hike in the Staircase area of Olympic National Park.

We hiked about 11.5 miles for the day. First up to Big Log camp 5.5 miles out on the east side of the North Fork of the Skokomish River. This only had 900 ft elevation gain. A pleasant walk in the forest with several log crossings over creeks.

 we enjoyed the small waterfalls on the creeks and the large cedar trees.

At 5 mile camp there were places to sit in the sun, eat lunch and watch the river.

 We hiked back along the same trail until we came to the new bridge crossing over the Skokomish River, and continued on the trail on the west side of the river (the Staircase Rapids hike).

I thought there were better views of the river on this side.