Toutle is an unincorporated community in Cowlitz County , Washington . Toutle is located east of Castle Rock along Washington State Route 504 , which is also known as the Spirit Lake Memorial Highway . The Toutle community , similar to Toutle River , takes its name from the '' Hullooetell '' , a band of the Skillot - a Chinookan tribe . The Toutle community is part of the Toutle Lake School District , a K-12 school district of about 720 students that serves the communities of Toutle and Silver Lake , Washington . Toutle is near Mount St. Helens and the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument , which lies at the end of 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
eruption of Mount St. Helens
1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens
Toutle, Washington