The Hoh Rain Forest, located in Hoh River valley, in the southwest corner of Olympic National Park, is an isolated, temperate rain forest that contains pristine examples of Sitka spruce and western hemlock forests found originally only along the Pacific coast of Oregon, Washington, Canada and Alaska. Produced by abundant rain from Pacific storms -- up to 14 feet annually -- the Hoh Rain Forest, as these photographs demonstrate, is a dense, bewildering jungle of green foliage every place the eye falls.

Sitka spruce and western hemlock may grow as tall as 300 feet, with circumferences of up to 25 feet. The Hoh also contains many other species including Douglas fir, western red cedar and big leaf and vine maple, to name a few. Mosses, lichens and ferns cover nearly everything that does not move.

Two popular walks through the Hoh include the Hall of Mosses Trail, about 0.75 miles in length, and the Spruce Nature Trail, about 1.25 miles in length. The photos in this gallery were make on one or the other of these two trails.