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6 unusual facts about Hood Canal


Chimakuan languages

It was spoken until the 1940s on the east side of the Olympic Peninsula between Port Townsend and Hood Canal.

Hood Canal

Eelgrass beds, which are nurseries for salmon and crab, have declined more in Hood Canal than any other area of the Puget Sound.

MV Kulshan

While the Hood Canal Bridge was not reopened again until October 25, 1982, the Kulshan was returned to the Mukilteo-Clinton run in 1981 when she was replaced at Hood Canal by a larger ferry.

A Hood Canal ferry run was re-established by utilizing the Kulshan between Lofall and South Point across the canal just south of the unusable bridge.

U.S. Route 101 in Washington

At the Hood Canal, US 101 follows the western shore to SR 106, where it turns directly south to the east end of SR 106 and Shelton, to meet the west end of SR 3.

The road then turns south to Dabob Bay, where it follows the shore until it reaches the Hood Canal.


Pacific Coast Joint Venture

The project in Washington focuses on bird habitats in its western and coastal regions, specifically the bays and straits of northern Washington, the southern Puget Sound and Hood Canal, the Olympic Peninsula, the southern Washington coast, and the Lower Columbia River.


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