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The Queets River is located in the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. It rises at the foot of the Queets glacier, on Mount Queets, in the Olympic Mountains, within the Olympic National Park, and drains into the Pacific Ocean, 47 miles away, dropping over 5,000 feet. A point north of the mouth of the Queets River is referenced as one of the corner boundaries of the Quinault Indian Reservation, in the Treaty of Olympia, 1856, signed at the capital of the Washington Territory. A National Park Service trail once ran for fifteen miles along the northern bank of the Queets, from a Park Service campsite at the end of the Queets River Road to the Pelton Creek campsite about five miles below Service Falls. This trail is now (as of July 2006) in poor condition and has been partially washed away by the river. A severe road washout in 2005 has caused the campsite, ranger station and road to be abandoned. A sign still exists at the campground, describing the trail, as does a single trail marker. The campsites along the trail have also been abandoned.
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