Kid Valley is located east of the city of Castle Rock and along the North Fork Toutle River.

Kid Valley is reached by traveling 17.8 miles (28.6 km) east of Castle Rock along Washington State Route 504, which is also known as the Spirit Lake Memorial Highway.

The eruption of Mount St. Helens on May 18, 1980, was the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States.

[3] Another natural disaster that affected logging in Kid Valley was a storm in February 1996 which caused multiple debris flows.

It was mostly logging roads that were damaged, but State Highway 504 was also blocked in two places near Kid Valley.