Port Ludlow: SR 104 at MP 13.1: Climbing Hill Looking West
Built around a nineteenth-century lumber mill on Port Ludlow Bay, Port Ludlow grew into a waterfront residential community on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. The bay opens toward Admiralty Inlet, while forested hills and the roads of Jefferson County rise behind the shore. State Route 104 is the principal road connection toward the Hood Canal Bridge and the wider Kitsap Peninsula. Port Ludlow’s working waterfront began with timber shipments, and the mill gave the settlement its early economic role. Marinas, shoreline homes and extensive evergreen woodland now give the area a distinctly maritime Pacific Northwest character.
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