BRINNON — Six years after floodwaters gouged out a stretch of Dosewallips Road, U.S. Forest Service officials are one step closer to deciding if Jefferson County’s only vehicular road to Olympic National Park should be rebuilt.
The public comment period closes today on a draft environmental impact statement covering the proposed Dosewallips Road washout project.
That could lead to a decision by next spring whether to rebuild or decommission the road leading to popular campsites on the east side of the national park, said Tim Davis, U.S. Forest Service forest planner.
“It’s about 2 to 1 in favor of not re-establishing road access,” Davis said of more than 400 written and verbal comments given to the Forest Service.
The road passes through Olympic National Forest territory before entering the national park and the Dosewallips campground with 87 sites for tents and 40 recreational vehicle campsites.
