Enchanted Valley Chalet

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Enchanted Valley Chalet is a backcountry lodge in Olympic National Park. Criswell, his son Glen and the Olson family of Quinault whose Olympic Recreation Company operated it as a destination lodge deep up the Quinault River Valley, about 13 miles (21 km) from the nearest road access.”
Wikipedia article Enchanted Valley Chalet, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 75 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 13 mi. upriver from Graves Cr. Trailhead, Port Angeles
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. building
Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
Census division. Quilcene Bay-Brinnon
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 07000737 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Enchanted Valley Chalet between 1992 and 2016, burning about 358 acres in total. 23 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	23
Recreation and ceremony	9
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
28 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	UPPER DUCK
25 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	9 STREAM FIRE
22 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	HONEYMOON
20 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	NO NAME
2 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Olympic National Park	PYRITES STUMP TP
14 September 1995	Natural	15 acres	Olympic National Park	DELABARRE
9 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	PYRITES FIRE
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	WHITE

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Botten Cabin	6.8 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000737 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jefferson County	All 75 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.