The
Sol Duc River (also spelled
Soleduck) is a
river in the
U.S. state of
Washington. About long, it flows west through the northwest part of the
Olympic Peninsula, from the
Olympic Mountains of
Olympic National Park and
Olympic National Forest, then through the broad Sol Duc Valley. Near the
Pacific Ocean the Sol Duc River joins the
Bogachiel River, forming the
Quillayute River, which flows about to the
Pacific Ocean at
La Push. Although the Quillayute River is short, its large tributary rivers—the Sol Duc, Bogachiel,
Calawah, and
Dickey Rivers—drain the largest
watershed of the northern Olympic Peninsula, . The Sol Duc's watershed is the largest of the Quillayute's tributaries, at .