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Olympic National Park Proposing Repairs To Cape Alva, Sand Point Trails

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By Compiled From N... - March 28th, 2022

Olympic National Park staff is seeking public input on how best to address deteriorating sections of the Ozette trails/NPS file

With most of the boardwalk that leads down the Cape Alava and Sand Point trails in poor condition, Olympic National Park staff is trying to decide how best to make repairs and is seeking public input.

The Cape Alava and Sand Point trails access each end of a 3-mile section of beach creating a 9-mile triangular wilderness hike, starting from the Lake Ozette Trailhead. Ozette is the busiest trailhead for overnight wilderness use in the park. Approximately 9,500 linear feet (70 percent) of the total 13,533 feet of boardwalk on the Cape Alava and Sand Point trails is in poor condition. These trails are in designated wilderness.

A section of deteriorated boardwalk along the Sand Point Trail/NPS

One option is to simply tackle small portions of boardwalk repairs by hand, but the park says that approach would fail to keep up with the repairs, as "structural components of the boardwalk would continue to deteriorate faster than they can be replaced given current trail crew capacity."

Another option would be to use helicopters to fly in materials to replace the worn sections, while a third option would be to create "turnpikes" -- a series of ground-level wood boxes filled with gravel and soil -- in areas that would not affect surface water flows.

More details on the proposals, and a page to leave comments, can be found at this site. Comments are being taken through April 26.

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