It rises in Clallam County, near Mount Townsend of the Olympic Mountains.

[3] The river flows generally east through the Olympic National Forest.

After exiting the higher mountains and the national forest the Little Quilcene River flows east and southeast through rolling terrain.

It enters Jefferson County and flows more directly south to Quilcene, where it empties into the northern end of Quilcene Bay, part of Hood Canal.

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