The Hood Canal Ranger District offers 2 fascinating auto tours. Along each tour, there are interesting sites and scenic vistas where you are directed to pull off the road and listen as the taped guide explains about the area. Each tour takes approximately 3 hours and due to the narrow, graveled roads, recreation vehicles and vehicles pulling trailers are not recommended.
Tour A leads over Bon Jon Pass, past Mt. Zion and into a thick doghair forest. The focus of this tour is on past and present forest management practices and the many issues involved in "ecosystem management." It includes stops at Lords Lake, Bon Jon ponds, Mt. Zion trail, and incorporates a tree identification activity.
Tour A leads over Bon Jon Pass, past Mt. Zion and into a thick doghair forest. The focus of this tour is on past and present forest management practices and the many issues involved in "ecosystem management." It includes stops at Lords Lake, Bon Jon ponds, Mt. Zion trail, and incorporates a tree identification activity.
Tour A (Part 2)
Listen To Auto Tour A (Part 2)
Tour B (Part 1)
Tour B leads you through the history of Snow Creek tree plantations, over Bear Mountain and into Dungeness Forks Campground. It highlights the history of the area and focuses on how wildlife, fisheries and watershed issues have changed forest management practices. This tour also stops at Lords Lake and proceeds from there to various stops en route to Dungeness Forks Campground.
Listen To Auto Tour B (Part 1)
Listen To Auto Tour B (Part 2)
NOTE: 4-H Network News is working with the Quilcene Ranger District to convert the 10-year Quilcene Ranger District Auto Tours orginally produced on cassette tape to a digital format. As you can see, once the tours are converted, they can be download on portable MP3 players (iPods) and accessed internationally via the internet.
Coming Soon:
Quilcene Auto Tour Booklet (44 pages)
Quilcene Auto Tour Photo Slide Show with video clips from each of the tour stops
