Kalaloch Ranger Station
47.6029, -124.3697 · Park boundary: National Park Service
Kalaloch Ranger Station is open daily during the summer and closed the rest of the year. Educational exhibits, informational brochures, a small sales area, and restrooms are available.
- Every day
- 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Visitor information about the coast, Forks, and other areas on the west side of the Olympic Peninsula; passport stamping station, book store. Guided walks and talks are offered during the summer. Passport stamp available at the Kalaloch Lodge when closed. Open intermittently in summer from Memorial Day weekend-September 30th.
Per the National Park Service, as of 2026-08-04
Kalaloch Ranger Station is a Passport To Your National Parks stamp location.
Kalaloch Ranger Station is located 36 miles south of Forks off of Highway 101.
Kalaloch Ranger Station. 2 minutes A brown and white wooden sign along the road reads, Kalaloch Ranger Station. The National Park Service arrowhead logo is attached to the sign. The single story rectangular gray wooden building with a gray metal roof faces the parking lot. A brown sign with white text is attached to the front of the building on the right and reads, Information. Beneath this is the National Park Service arrowhead logo. The recessed entryway is between the sign and arrowhead on the right and a large window on the left. The blue front door with a large window is at the right edge of the recessed section. To the left, a sign hangs on the wall with either the word Open or Closed, and below, a box on the wall holds park brochures and other information. In the left corner of the recessed entryway atop a round wooden pedestal is a white whale skull which you may touch. An interpretive panel behind the skull reads, A Whale of a Trip. In one of the longest known annual migrations of any mammal, gray whales travel over 10,000 miles roundtrip between their Baja winter breeding grounds and Arctic summer feeding grounds. A few hundred whales shorten this migration and summer in shallow coastal waters in the Pacific Northwest. March through may are prime times to view spouting gray whales off the Olympic coast. A whale can weigh 20 to 35 tons and reach 45 feet in length, bigger than a school bus. In a lifetime, a gray whale can swim farther than the distance to the moon and back. Inside the Ranger Station are restrooms, an information desk, and a small bookstore.
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