9 90a. SEPTEMBER 1988 DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT PLAN/OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK/WASHINGTON T‘l 1988 W 1 T20 m, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR /NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SEPTEMBER 1988 DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT PLAN — ‘. OZETTE AREA 7 D : § ‘ I INTRODUCTION 2 Planning Process , Plan Summary DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT PLAN MAPS 3-5 Areawide Ozette Area Development ~ DESCRIPTION OF CONCEPTS 6 CONSTRUCTION COST ESTIMATES 7 PREPARERS 8 INTRODUCTION PLANNING PROCESS In 1976, the Master Plan for Olympic National Park was completed to provide general, park-wide guidance for management. Since 1976, several factors have changed in the Ozette area. These factors include a park expansion adding the entire Ozette Lake shoreline; NPS land acquisition in the area; the closure of the Ozette archeological dig; the approval of the 1986 Interpretive Prospectus which called for a visitor contact station at Ozette; and recent counts of visitor use showing an increase in visitation to Ozette of 20 percent per year. In 1987, a Development Concept Plan (DCP) was started to address these issues. A DCP is an intermediate planning step between the Master Plan, and the next step of site-specific design drawings. This DCP focuses on a particular developed area within the park in need of conceptual, area-wide management direction. It concentrates on facility needs and development, rather than operational or backcountry resource needs. In April 1988, an Environmental Assessment/Draft DCP was completed which presented a range of alternative management directions for the area, and the environmental impacts expected from each of these alternatives. Together with the NPS’s recommended plan, presented as the “preferred alternative,” other possible solutions were also presented to provide the public with a wide range of alternatives. Comments received at six public meetings and in writing were considered, revisions were made as determined by the park superintendent and regional director, and this final DCP was adopted to guide management for the next 10 to 15 years. This DCP for Ozette is one of four concurrently completed for different areas on the west side of the park — the Ouinault valley, the Kalaloch coastal strip, the Soleduck valley, and the Ozette area. How each area interacts with the others in terms of the park visitor experience, both independently and in combination, was considered in the preparation of the four DCPs. ' — PLAN SUMMARY The DCP includes the following development concepts: 1) provide a visitor experience which emphasizes the wilderness character of the area, involving lake, trail and overnight beach experiences; 2) remove the existing access road to the developed area; develop new access to the parking area using existing logging road; improve existing parking; limit the developed areas to pedestrians; 3) replace the information kiosk and obsolete ranger station with a new visitor contact/ranger station; 4) expand and reorganize the existing campground without formalizing sites; develop walk-in camping nearby; 5) reserve the lakeshore west of the campground and along the river as a day-use area; develop a new picnic area and local trails; 6) upgrade the existing boat launch in the developed area; 7) stabilize historic structures at Rooses homestead; document and interpret ruins at Ahlstroms Prairie; 8) add a lakeside trail to Bloom Bay and connect with N. Sandpoint Trail; improve Allen’s Bay Trail; 9) replace existing employee housing with new facilities north of the developed area; and replace maintenance facilities with a new facility near the leach field. «magma $§03W$ £332! "CI/6000' q 6 in u r: r a. 3 3E 'Q: ii :3 2 X I i : ~ PEVELC‘Dfl/IIEINT O———~——---———————— cwcmm OZETTE AREA BOUNDARY "I! “i r? If PROPOSED TRAIL A R EAW I DE GRAVEL ROAD OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK / WASHINGTON TRAIL UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTfRIOR x NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 149 . 40118A - JULY as WING; WM BAY 506T RAMP , ‘ * ' IMWE aRcULA'noNANO MNG— ' PROVIDE PIT‘IZJILETE . 1W5 KANGER $13015 12> IMPROVE 55:0er WM ~W¢mmwm Wane WWW an WWW WMWWsfiE ‘ 'WNIZE #MOE MINOR W J WITHIN EXIfiTI‘GrWMEA ppm MWW (was) WM: 5:41pm 0500 9F) WWW (20061?) 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OFFIOEé ' . a . naww mumwwmwena @( ‘ f KR» _ DETAILé W fiffigwaw NA “ ' atom WW I 5’ (mt “m a W” .‘, " . ‘ ¢. ; l . \. .. .‘..-.:. , _ : .1 ‘ _ 4. . .. . . ,. ,‘ , ¢ :‘1‘a '.. ..' . ,...- t - V ‘. . t . —-—-————--=—-—— V, _ mama“; fl an OZETTE AREA PAVFD ROAD ' ‘: PROPOSED TRAIL LSRAVEL ROAD OLYMPIC NATIONAL PARK x’ WASHINGTON owner) STATES DEDARTMENT 0F ma (NTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 149 - 403201} ‘ JULY 88 DESCRIPTION OF CONCEPTS Emphasis and Experience Interpretation and Information Facilities Ranger Station Day-use Facilities and Trails Campground Lake Use Backcou ntry Trails and Campgrounds Cultural Sites The emphasis is on appreciating, understanding and enjoying the wilderness character of this coastal region. The visitor experience will involve use of the lake and immediate trail systems, longer treks into the wilderness area, or overnight camping experiences at remote areas on the lake or along the ocean beaches in an informal atmosphere. Provide visitor contact and interpretation services at new ranger station; interpretation would cover the wilderness coastline and cultural resources; remove and replace the information kiosk; interpretation of cultural resources at Ahlstroms Prairie. New ranger station with offices and backcountry permit desk; remove existing ranger station. Develop new day-use area along the river and lake at site of existing ranger residence and maintenance buildings (which would be removed); develop picnic area near parking area with shelters; develop trails in developed area; develop viewpoint with benches on east point of river with lake. Reorganize, but do not formalize existing campground; expand to 30-35 sites; add comfort station; new 8 to 10 site walk-in area north of existing campground. Replace NPS boat house; retain existing boat ramp in developed area and replace boat dock; continue boat launch site at Swan Bay and add pit toilets; lake use to be addressed in lake use management plan. Maintain existing trails; improve Allen’s Bay Trail; add lakeside trail from developed area to Bloom Bay and connect to N. Sandpoint Trail; with respect to bald eagles, any trail locations and seasons of use will be determined in consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; maintain Ericsons Bay campground; maintain boat-in campgrounds at Eagle Point, Allens Bay and Tivoli Island; provide pit toilets on Tivoli Island; other backcountry uses to be addressed in backcountry management plan. Document and interpret ruins at Ahlstroms Prairie and allow natural processes to prevail; stabilize and maintain structures at Rooses Homestead, and determine the extent of and maintain pasture; retain Norwegian Memorial; cooperate with Makah Tribe on interpreting and protecting archeological dig site. Concession Services Maintenance Facilities Housing Roads Parking Land Acquisition No concession services. Develop maintenance facility adjacent to existing leach field; remove existing maintenance structures. Develop housing north of the developed area; remove existing housing. Using the bypass road, develop new access to parking area; construct new bridge on bypass road; provide access to campground off new access road; provide access to boat launch from campground access road; provide access to housing and maintenance areas from bypass road; remove existing access road to campground and developed area; provide official vehicle access to ranger station from parking area; improve surface of entrance road. Pursue an alternate route for log truck traffic that will bypass the visitor use area at the north end of Lake Ozette. This will require negotiations with the timber companies that own property adjacent to the park. The bypass could be accomplished either by purchase or exchange. Reorganize existing parking area and provide minor expansion within existing disturbed area; improve parking at Swan Bay launch site. Acquire the remaining term of the use and occupancy for tract 42-132 for campground expansion. CONSTRUCTION COST ESTIMATES — NATIONAL PARK SERVICE interpretation and Information $196,000 Ranger Station 196,000 Cultural Sites 33,000 Day-use 242,000 Campground 145,000 Lake-use 56,000 Backcountry 4,000 Trails 231,000 Maintenance 327,000 Housing 504,000 Roads 713,000 Parking 52,000 Utilities 246,000 Gross Construction1 $2,945,000 25% of Net2 __ 562,000 TOTA L COST $3,507,000 1. Net construction costs, plus construction supervision and contingencies 2. Advance and project planning and design costs PREPARERS . , Pacific Northwest Regional Office, National Park Service Charles Odegaard, Regional Director Ivan Miller, Management Analyst Olympic National Park, National Park Service Bob Chandler, Superintendent Don Jackson, Assistant Superintendent Randy Jones, Assistant Superintendent John Teichert, Assistant Superintendent . Kevin MacCartney, Sub-District Ranger Denver Service Center, National Park Service Mike Strunk, Team Captain/ Landscape Architect Nancy Arkin, Landscape Architect Steve Bainbridge, Civil Engineer John Lehmkuhl, Natural Resource Specialist Roberta McDougall, Interpretive Planner Pat Sacks, Landscape Architect Sally Snyder, Planning Technician Ron West, Natural Resource Specialist Frank Williss, Historian - Bob Yearout, Concessions Analyst rv As the nation’s principal conservation agency, the Department of the Interior has basic responsibilities to protect and conserve our land and water, energy and minerals, fish and wildlife, and parks and recreation areas, and to ensure the wise use of all these resources. The department also has major responsibility for American Indian reservation communities and for people who live in island territories under US. administration. Publication services were provided by the graphics staff of the Denver Service Center. NPS D-139A September 1988