Things To Do

Day trips and Other Sites.

Cape Perpetua (Highest point on the Oregon coast)

Cape Perpetua Visitors Center ( history of the area, storm and rain records, logging and
native impact)

Auto Tour (22 miles through the forest..need to check with Forest Service regarding
access.

Devils Churn (a sea vista and area to picnic)

Haceta Head Lighthouse (constructed 1874)

Sea Lion Caves (several hundred may congregate at various times of the year)

Oregon Dunes ( tallest sand dunes on the U.S. West coast, 350'-450' above sea level)

Remaining stands of virgin timber (old growth)

Strawberry Hill ( Steller Sea Lions)

Smelt Sands State Park ( ancient site of Smelt harvesting)

Ancient Shell Middens (at Strawberry Hill, Smelt Sands St. Pk. and other locations)

Gwynn Creek Trail-Cummins Creek Trail (day hiking , mountain biking just South of Cape
Perpetua)

Cummins Ridge Trail and Cummins Creek Wilderness ( Spotted Owl, Marbled Murrlet- photo
opportunities)

Beach combing (agate collecting, Japanese fishing float and surf balls)

Fishing and Mussel gathering (from Yachats to Florence)

Neptune State Park (protected marine gardens)

Spouting Horn (several sea spouts exist along our immediate shore line rivaling those in
Mexico and Hawaii)

Tide pooling (sea anemones, star fish, sea worms and shore birds abound)

The Giant Spruce ( lightning took the top of it and it's still BIG)

Newport Marine Science center (ocean aquarium)