Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Amanda Park, WA

Amanda Park is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) on the Olympic Peninsula in northern Grays Harbor County, Washington, along U.S. Route 101.

The community sits in the northeast corner of the Quinault Indian Nation, on the Quinault River at the outlet of Lake Quinault.

Olympic National Park and Lake Quinault lie directly north of Amanda Park, and the Quinault Valley entrance to the national park is reached by North Shore Road from the northern edge of the community.

U.S. Route 101 runs through the center of Amanda Park, leading northwest about 25 miles to Queets on the coast and south about 43 miles to Aberdeen.

The population was 162 at the 2020 census, down sharply from 252 at the 2010 census, when the community counted 90 households and a median age of just 30.5 years.

Amanda Park was first listed as a census-designated place in the 2010 census.

With an average annual precipitation of about 129 inches, Amanda Park is one of the rainiest locations in Washington state, though a pronounced July dry spell still classifies its climate as warm-summer Mediterranean.

The Amanda Park CDP covers 8.5 square miles, of which about 3 percent is water.

Nearly a third of Amanda Park's residents (about 33 percent in 2020) are Hispanic or Latino, and almost all of the CDP lies within the Lake Quinault School District.