South Coast Wilderness Trail - Toleak Point — Thursday, Jul. 22, 2010

Olympic Peninsula > Pacific Coast

Toleak Point Quickie… – ONP 07/22-23/10 Introduction: (Intro from Day Hiking Olympic Peninsula – Craig Romano “Sand ladders and ankle-twisting terrain climb 250 feet up and over the imposing head-land. Travel through a grove of old growth Sitka Spruce before making a steep decent back to sea level.” Ok, from this point you have to watch the tides and you will do the above all over a couple more times to reach this destination. Directions: Drive 55 miles west of Port Angeles to the State route 110 (Mora – La Push cutoff) and take a right and follow this road towards La Push. Park at the Third Beach TH on the Left. I only had a two day window and the tides kind of dictated this hike. It only takes 2 ½ hours hiking time to get to Toleak Pt from the Third Beach TH at a slow to moderate pace. The trail is on the rough side but there is nothing too serious to worry about. That said, I would not want to do this trail in the rain. There are head-land trails with ropes over any point that the tide would prevent you from getting around. (Be sure not to leave anything of value in your car at the TH. We did not have any problems but others have in the past. There are signs warning this as well.) Happy hiking...