Kalaloch Lodge

Charles Becker bought a 40-acre coastal plot in 1925 and built a main lodge and cabins from milled driftwood lumber — a practical man's solution on a coast that provided its own materials. The National Park Service purchased the property in 1978. Perched on a 50-foot bluff above the Pacific, it remains the only oceanfront lodge within Olympic National Park, sitting north of the Quinault Indian Nation reservation on a stretch of coast the Quinault people long called "a good place to land."