Lyre River

Lyre River just below Lake Crescent

Location map

The Lyre River is a 8 km long river in the U.S. state of Washington, which rises from the Lake Crescent in the Olympic National Park and empties into the Juan de Fuca Strait.

The Indians who lived in the area, called the river Singing waters and the first European site, Gonzalo López de Haro, baptized him in 1790 in the name of Rio de Cuesta. Later, the river Lyre River was named after it was mapped by Captain Henry Kellett in 1847.

Run

The Lyre River flows about to the northwest from the Lake Crescent out, first receives the waters of the June Creek and turns to the north point at which the Boundary Creek joins from the left. About 4.3 km above the mouth of the river plunges down the Lyre River Falls that make the flow of upwardly mobile fish impassable. The river continues its way north continued, and before it drains into the sea, still lead the Susie Creek from the left, and finally the Nelson Creek from the right side one.

Fish species

The first few hundred meters of the river below the Lake Crescent are habitat for the endemic Lake Crescent subspecies of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss irideus that is found nowhere else. Below the waterfall live Cutthroatforellen (Oncorhynchus clarki ) and rainbow trout.

History of settlement

The root of the Makah looked at the Lyre River as its eastern border, but also the members of the Klallam settled its running.

In the early 1890s, a John Smith had made rights in Piedmont after the homestead law claims; John Hanson and his wife Mary Laeger Hanson reported their claims in the vicinity of the effluent from the Lake Crescent. From 1889 to the 1920s, there was a settlement called Gettysburg, which lay on the eastern side of the estuary and in 1910 had a population of 65 people, and a post office. Gettysburg had been founded by a man named Robert Getty as a logging town.

Today is located near the mouth of one operated by the Washington Department of Natural Resources campground.