Forest Road 2257 Boondocking

I used Google satellite view to search for dispersed camping in Olympic National Forest along Cooks Creek Road and found some promising spots. The first one showed traces of a short road and a clearing made by loggers but in person everything was grown over. The second, a small pull off on a dirt road, was very slanted and on private property. My last choice was also a pull off on a dirt road but on forest land and, although we would normally only stay overnight in a pull off, we liked this spot so much that we ended up staying two days. 

This area was logged many years ago, probably in the late 1800s or early 1900s. The large tree stumps are almost rotted away and the new growth is thick and impenetrable but surprisingly the road is good shape with just  shallow potholes. We walked/rolled a mile or two up the road and found a few places large enough to pull off and camp. 

The spot where we camped is hidden from the Cooks Creek Road by a bend in the forest road so we couldn't see the traffic and only a couple of people can past us while exploring the network of forest roads. The salmon berry bushes were full of fruit ready for picking. They're tasty but seedy and internet sources say the best way to use them is to squish them and save the juice. Now I have a container of juice in the freezer waiting for inspiration. :D I'm thinking maybe boil the juice down some and add fruit to make popsicles. Edit October 2023: I bought some Lekue popsicle molds, thawed the juice, cooked it a bit, added some honey, let it cool then poured the juice into the molds. I thawed some frozen strawberries, cooked them a bit with some honey and added that to the molds. The popsicles were delicious! I was a bit skeptical because the juice didn't have a lot of flavor but the honey really brought it out. Internet sites recommended making the juice sweeter than normal because the popsicles need more, I guess because they're cold.

 

The pull off is large enough for most RVs but there may not be enough room to turn around. It may be muddy if there have been recent rains. Boondocking    47.37427, -123.90616