Capitol State Forest is a one hundred ten thousand-acre public forest in western Washington that stretches across the Black Hills southwest of Olympia. Managed by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, it functions as both a working forest and a major recreation area near the state capital region. Before large-scale logging in the early twentieth century, it contained old-growth trees reaching about two hundred fifty feet tall and twelve feet in diameter. Today it is valued for timber production, habitat, and outdoor access, with wetlands, headwaters, nearby preserves, and trails for hiking, riding, biking, and off-road motorcycles, including the McLane Creek Nature Trail.