Perhaps they’ve been reading the blogs too. And to be fair, they are undergoing a multi-year renovation to help change their image. Big, old (they call it “historic”) and a bit smelly…but a great restaurant.

In looking for Google images of the resort, I came across several travel review websites who had the same opinions of the lodge that I did. Just south of Neilton, the highway connects with the 101 and we headed north to the town of Quinault, home of the Lake Quinault Resort.

The lodge as viewed from the end of the courtyard. Just past Moclips, we took the Moclips Highway – also known as Cook Creek Road – northeast toward Lake Quinault. The drive north from Ocean Shores took us through Ocean City, Copalis Beach, Roosevelt Beach, Sunset Beach and Moclips (sidenote: one of may favorite jokes…what do you do when you run out of clips? You get Moclips!). Apparently, the lodge is a historic destination but I’ll go into that more a few paragraphs from now. On Sunday the 10th, it was my parents big day, so we headed out to Lake Quinault Lodge to have dinner (and they stayed the night).

Fortunately, we have my parents wonderful house to stay in, which always offers us something to do when the weather cooperates. While Ocean Shores may be a great place to spend a beautiful Washington Coast Weekend (tourism seems to be thriving quite a bit), it’s pretty much grey, rainy, foggy, windy, and more or less miserable for the other eight months of the year. Ocean Shores once marketed itself as a vacation getaway destination and actually hired Erik Estrada to do infomercials touting its benefits. “Hey, good lookin’… Come on down to Ocean Shores!”

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