Nisqually River Council's photostream

The Nisqually, the only watershed in the United States with its headwaters enclosed by a National Park and its delta protected by a National Wildlife Refuge, remains one of the least degraded of the major Puget Sound rivers. Along its 78-mile course, the river traverses forested, mountainous terrain and rolling farmlands in three counties, passes small towns and the Nisqually Indian Reservation and Fort Lewis Military Reservation, and finally enters Puget Sound near the site of the first European settlement in the region.