Contents

Color Photos

A Quick Guide to the Hikes

Acknowledgments

Preface

Oregon's Hikeable Coastline

THE NORTH COAST

1. Clatsop Spit

2. Peter Iredale

3. Coffenbury Lake

4. Fort to Sea Trail

5. Cullaby Lake

6. Gearhart ridge Path

7. Tillamook head

8. Indian Beach-Ecola Point

9. Crescent Beach

10. Chapman Beach

11. Haystack Rock

12. Hug Point

13. Cape Falcon

14. Short Sand Beach

15. Neahkahnie Mountain

16. Nehalem Spit

Oregon Coast Trail, North Coast

THE NORTH-CENTRAL COAST

17. Bayocean Spit

18. Cape Meares

19. Cape Meares Lighthouse

20. Oceanside Beach

21. Netarts Spit

22. Cape Lookout

23. Cape Lookout Campground Link

24. Cape Lookout Beach

25. Munson Creek Falls

26. Whalen Island

27. Tierra del Mar to Sand Lake

28. Cape Kiwanda to Tierra del Mar

29. Nestucca Spit

30. Porter Point

31. Proposal Rock

32. Cascade Head—North Access

33. Cascade Head—South Access

34. Harts Cove

35. Cascade Head Traverse

36. Roads End

37. Drift Creek Falls

38. Salishan Spit

39. Fishing Rock

40. Beverly Beach-Devils Punchbowl

Oregon Coast Trail, North-Central Coast

THE CENTRAL COAST

41. Salal Hill

42. Communications Hill

43. Yaquina Head to Yaquina Bay

44. Yaquina Estuary

45. South Jetty Trail

46. Cooper Ridge Nature Trail

47. Mike Miller Educational Trail

48. Ona Beach to Seal Rock

49. Yachats Trail

50. Cape Perpetua—Kittel-Amanda Trail

51. Cape Perpetua—St. Perpetua Trail

52. Giant Spruce Trail

53. Restless Waters Trail

54. Captain Cook Trail

55. Cooks Ridge

56. Cape Coast Trail

57. Gwynn Creek

58. Cummins Creek

59. Cummins Ridge

60. Hobbit Beach

61. China Creek

62. Heceta Head Lighthouse

63. Baker Beach

64. Cape Mountain

65. Enchanted Valley

66. Sutton Trail

67. Sutton Beach

68. Siuslaw North Jetty

Oregon Coast Trail, Central Coast

THE SOUTH-CENTRAL COAST

69. Siuslaw South Jetty Dune

70. Waxmyrtle Trail

71. Lagoon Trail

72. Chief Tsiltcoos Trail

73. Siltcoos Lake

74. Taylor Dunes

75. Carter Dunes

76. Oregon Dunes Overlook

77. Tahkenitch Creek

78. Tahkenitch Dunes

79. Threemile Lake Trail—North Access

80. Threemile Lake Trail—South Access

81. Lake Marie

82. Eel Lake

83. John Dellenback Trail

84. Bluebill Lake

85. North Spit

86. South Slough

87. Wasson-Winchester Creeks

88. Cape Arago Shoreline

89. Cape Arago Pack Trail

90. Cape Arago Coves

Oregon Coast Trail, South-Central Coast

THE SOUTH COAST

91. Seven Devils-Whisky Run Beach

92. Coquille Lighthouse

93. Coquille Point

94. New River

95. Floras Lake Beach

96. Blacklock Point

97. Airport-Floras Lake Trail

98. Cape Blanco North Shore

99. Cape Blanco South Shore

100. Port Orford Heads

101. Battle Rock

102. Humbug Mountain Coast Trail

103. Humbug Mountain

104. Otter Point

105. Buena Vista Beach

106. Cape Sebastian

107. Crook Point

108. Arch Rock Point-Spruce Island Viewpoints

109. Spruce Island Viewpoint- Natural Bridges Cove

110. Secret Beach

111. Natural Bridges Cove- North Island Viewpoint (China Beach)

112. Thomas Creek-Whaleshead Beach

113. Indian Sands

114. Whaleshead Beach-House Rock Viewpoint

115. House Rock Viewpoint- Cape Ferrelo

116. Cape Ferrelo-Lone Ranch Beach

117. Harris Beach

118. Chetco Point

119. Redwood Nature Trail

120. McVay Beach

Oregon Coast Trail, South Coast

NATURE NOTES

The Oregon Beach Bill

Coastal Weather

First Peoples on the Oregon Coast

Skunk Cabbage

Tufted Puffins

Headlands, Sea Stacks, Arches, and Blowholes

Beaches and Sand

Bald Eagles

Oregon Silverspot Butterflies

Estuaries

Velella Velella

Hermit Crabs

Sea Lions

Waves and Spindrift

Gulls and Their Cousins

Shore Pines

Insect-Eating Plants

Crows and Ravens

Roosevelt Elk

The Dune Landscape

Snowy Plovers

Beach Grass

Harbor Seals and Elephant Seals

Gorse

Sea Stars

Sitka Spruce

Coastal Bird Refuges

Gray Whales

Visitor Information

Index