Associated Press
PORT ANGELES — Heavy rains have washed out a 200-foot section of the already damaged Graves Creek Road east of Lake Quinault in Olympic National Park.
The washout is 1.7 miles east of the Quinault River Bridge, park officials said. The bridge is near the intersection of North Shore and South Shore roads. Park officials previously closed a portion of the road because of a prior washout.
About 9 inches of rain fell at the Quinault River ranger station about 10 miles from Graves Creek Road from Nov. 12 through Nov. 18. Roughly 2 inches of rain have fallen there each day since.
Graves Creek Road is the second forest road affected by heavy rainfall within the past week. Olympic National Forest officials have also closed Forest Service Road No. 24 leading to the Staircase entrance of Olympic National Park following a landslide.
A 300-foot slide 1.5 miles east of the park boundary last Tuesday prompted the closure near Lake Cushman, in the remote southeast corner of the park.
The road was not damaged, but the slide poses a danger, forest officials said.
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