Location from Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
The Quileute tribal reservation on the Pacific coast — ancestral homeland of the shape-shifting wolf pack and a place where the old legends are more than stories.
La Push is Quileute land, and the tribe has lived here since before anyone thought to write history down. The reservation is tight-knit and insular — outsiders are tolerated on the beaches but the community's real life happens behind closed doors and around bonfires where elders tell stories that tourists think are folklore. The wolf legends are the most important: spirit warriors who could leave their bodies, a chief who merged with a wolf to protect his people, and a treaty with the Cold Ones that drew an invisible line through the forest. That line is real. The Cullens don't cross onto Quileute land, and the wolves don't hunt on Cullen territory. When the pack starts phasing again — triggered by the proximity of vampires — La Push becomes a barracks as much as a home. Young men who were teenagers yesterday are now running patrol routes through the forest in wolf form, and the community absorbs this the way it has absorbed every impossible thing: quietly, together, without telling outsiders.
A windswept stretch of coastline where the Pacific crashes against sea stacks and driftwood-littered beaches. The reservation is small — a scattering of modest houses, a community center, and a general store connected by rain-slicked roads. The forest behind the village is darker and older than anywhere else on the peninsula. Bonfires on First Beach throw orange light against the fog.
Also known as: La Push, the reservation, the rez, Quileute land