PORT ANGELES — Efforts to fill concession contracts inside Olympic National Park continue to drag on, and the National Park Service shows no sign of turning the tide.
A self-imposed Park Service deadline of Feb. 26 passed without prospectuses for Kalaloch Lodge and Sol Duc Hot Springs Resort being released.
All six concession contracts inside Olympic are expired and operate on year-to-year extensions.
The prospectuses for Kalaloch and Sol Duc are again months away, according to Mac Foreman, interim chief of concessions for the Park Service’s Pacific West Region.
“In Kalaloch, we’re looking at May,” Foreman said Tuesday.
“We’re hoping that the release of . . . Sol Duc for solicitation will maybe take place at least in September.”
Prospectuses list services the Park Service expects concessionaires to offer along with a minimum franchise fee, payable as a percentage of gross receipts.
“Right now we’re in the process of reviewing the financial feasibility studies,” Foreman said.
Interested concessionaires typically have 60 to 120 days to respond once a prospectus is released.
