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Beyond Cannon Beach - Best Hikes on the Oregon Coast

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 Hey, Craig, are you excited to talk about the Oregon coast today? You know, I am excited to talk about the Oregon coast and, you know, before we start, so I, I have to tell you, you know, when I, I moved out to Washington and I was thrilled about the Washington coast. Because it's, it's a, you know, it's a wild coast.

The Olympic Peninsula, and I know I might, this might get me in some trouble with Northwesterners here, but my true love is the northern California coast, you know, from San Francisco to the Humboldt Redwoods. What? 

Just kidding. I love that area too. 

It's, yeah, it's actually, 

California is awesome. 

Yeah. That, and that's my favorite part of the entire West coast.

Um, but what was happening, I was taking regular trips down to Humboldt County and, and what I would do. I would, um, instead of driving I five back, I said, you know, I'm gonna take the scenic ride back a couple extra days up 1 0 1 through the Oregon coast. And I would spend a couple nights and start realizing, my God, this is incredible.

This is incredible. . And I finally started realizing why I've been, you know, all this time I wasn't paying much attention to Oregon Coast because. In Washington part. See, everyone talks about Canon Beach,

yeah. Yeah. 

It seems like because it's so close to Portland and Vancouver and even Seattle, that seaside, that whole area, uh, that's where people go and, and there's a lot of great things there, and we could certainly talk about that, but, but.

What really started turning me on to a lot of the Oregon coasts are the places far from Canon Beach and Seaside and, and just realizing, man, there's some incredible, and particularly the southern Oregon coast, which is just, again, if I lived any, maybe, and I think this is probably what makes it so special, because it's so darn far from, from Portland and from San Francisco, that you just can't do a day trip there, you know?

So you gotta at least do a weekend there and, and it's a very, very easy place to do a weekend. So, um. That's one of the coolest things about, um, the org. And I should also mention too, Oregon has a long history, uh, with being a leader in conservation. They've had great progressive leaders in their, in their past.

In 1967 was a landmark. Uh, their Oregon Coast Act, I believe was called. It was, it was actually, um, modeled on Texas of all place. Texas did this with their coast that pretty much established that the entire 363 miles. Of the Oregon coast is public. Uh, and, and there has to be public right of way to this, uh, because Oregon, like Washington, when it became statehood, had this ridiculous idea of selling off.

Tide lands and stuff like that. And that's why in Puget Sound, so much of it's been privatized. But in Oregon, boy, you can walk that coast and there's access. And California has a similar thing. And that's beautiful. So you're looking at a lot of, it's really cool. A lot of public land. And then in job there's so many state.

Yeah, exactly. And, and then when they're building Highway 1 0 1, uh, up there, it was almost like they were putting a state park every 10 miles. Through there. And then it's been expanded. The Oregon State Park, and I've talked about this, uh, in the past, Oregon's got a wonderful state park system and some of their, finest state parks are on the Oregon coast, and it's just incredible places.

So do you wanna start with, one of the best ones is the Samuel Boardman Scenic Area. It's 12 miles long. Okay, 

cool. 

So , this is pretty far south. And 

can you, as you go through them Yeah. Can you talk about like where they are? 

So from 

people like me who are not. Not knowledgeable about Oregon at all.

You need to do a road trip at least down there. I do. It's a popular bike trip too. , If you're coming in from California, you go up 1 0 1, uh, Brookings is gonna be the first, uh, sizable town. You're going to,, and you just, north of Brookings is the Samuel Boardman State Park Scenic, uh, corridor.

, It's 12 miles long. Um, and, and there's so many places you can spend weeks just exploring this one park. It's 18 miles of the Oregon Coast Trail alone. We're, and we're gonna have a, a, a separate episode of talking about the Oregon Coast Trail. 

Yeah, that'll be really cool.

Yeah. There's all these headlands, there's, there's, um, natural arches, uh, private beaches. It is just an incredibly spectacular place. Uh, so if you're doing one trip. To the, to the, uh, south Oregon coast. That's where I'd send you. Um, but I need to back up for a minute, um, because I, yeah. Telling you how much I love the, the Humboldt, California, the Redwoods and everything.

Jay, did you know there's redwoods in Oregon? Did you know that? 

I, I did know that. So I don't know if we've ever talked about this, Craig, but my in-laws lived. Um, my husband Jay, grew up in the National Park Service and Right.. And my in-laws were at Crater Lake for, okay. Eight years. So I have spent, even though I said I don't know a lot about Oregon, which is true, I have spent a lot of time in Crater Lake.

And then I've also, you know, we did TR like, so I've also been to Medford quite a bit and I've also been to the, 

yeah, 

southern Oregon coast quite a bit. But that was Then you work, yeah, hiking related. So I do know that about the Redwoods, but that is the only reason. 

Yeah, and it's 

parts of connection.

It's very small. The, the farthest area may be with climate change. Who knows, Washington may have redwoods at some point, but right now there is a couple of valleys in Oregon and part of it's on national forest land in there. And there are a couple small, uh, really nice trails. One very, very close to Brooking.

So if you wanna check out. Oregon Redwoods. Uh, this is a cool way. So California doesn't have, you know, the entire franchise on Redwoods, most of it, but, but Oregon's got a little bit, so we do have redwoods in the northwest, so you wanna check that out too. So as you're going farther north up 1 0 1.

There's,, Cape Sebastian, which is another, uh, incredible area. It's an area too that has a, a very long wild stretch. You know, 'cause one of the things,, along in Oregon is that Highway 1 0 1 is pretty close to, to the coast in, in, in a lot of areas unlike, the Olympic Coast or the Lost Coast in, in Humboldt.

But, uh, there are definitely stretches where that road. I, I is back or inland a few miles where you have long, long stretches of being away from the road. And case of Sebastian is one of those. , And the other thing too, I should emphasize, Oregon, um, in between these headlands and these, these wide, , deltas from these, these.

Rivers and everything are some amazing sandy beach stretches. And it's so funny because when I was raising my, my son very young, um, he saw the Atlantic Ocean before he saw the Pacific Ocean and he said, oh God, I love these sandy beaches, dad, and then you, I take him to all these Puget sound beaches. Oh, everything's rocky.

But Oregon has got some amazing stretches of bonafide sand. They do really nice stuff. The stuff I love to walk barefoot on for miles, you know? So if you're a barefoot hiker, yeah, because 

most of our Washington beaches, he could not walk on barefoot. Oh god, no.

Without really tough feet, except for like Golden Gardens. One area there are And El El in one area. 

Yeah. And when you find those 

spit kind of, they're, 

but 

that's it. Precious. Yeah. Yeah, 

exactly. The elusive Sandy Washington beach, but Oregon's a 

lot of, well I guess Crescent Beach on the Olympic Peninsula.

Yeah. It's bit Sandy. Yeah. And the coast of course. I mean, beautiful Long Beach and all that area. A lot. Great. Great. And the Olympic too. In between those rocky stretches, beautiful sandy areas. Um, so one of my, um, favorite places on the southern Oregon coast, several times when I've been making that drive back from California, the, the allure of Humbug Mountain says, stop Romano, you gotta hike because so, so Humbug Mountain is 1700 feet. It's actually one of the really higher points right on the coast. You got a 1700, it's amazing mountain, right on the coast.

It's a state park, and at it's not a very long hike of a four or five mile round trip, uh, some beautiful trees. And you know, I remember the first time I did this in the early nineties, um, there was no view. I mean, very, very little view.

And what's happened now, there's been some trees cleared down through windstorms, I believe state parks. And now the last time I was up there was like, my god, the view south all the way through Boardman is, is spectacular. You can see all the way to California. So wonderful, wonderful place. Um, just north of that is Cape Blanco again. Another area you can spend weeks. And of course I should mention too, if you're a light lighthouse, uh, buff, , Cape Acea and some of the light, Oregon has some of the oldest lighthouses, uh, in, in, in the area too. So, um, did not, do you know, I just think Jenny put it on our, we need to do a lighthouse hike.

. Episode. Oh, 

that's a good idea. 

Yeah. For Washington, Oregon. We, a lot of you can hike and I know there's a lot of lighthouse buffs out there, so 

Yeah. 

Alright, I'll come back more. There's 

a lot of lighthouse T towels out there too. 

Yes. Yeah, , I stayed at some of these places out there.

Okay. So I gotta tell you my absolute favorite. I know a lot of the, a lot of people in our neck of the woods here, Canon Beach is their favorite, favorite beach town. But you know what my absolute favorite, uh, town in Oregon as far as staying and everything, it's just, it, it captured me.

I absolutely love this place. 

I was gonna ask you where you like to stay out there later. So I'll ask you now where Craig. 

In Bandon 

Mm mm-hmm. 

In Bandon, just south of COOs Bay. And the first time I stayed there, I stayed in a hostel. I don't know if the hostel's still there. Um, so that was definitely back in my, dirtbagging days coming back.

I was running a marathon actually down in, in the Humboldt Redwoods and didn't have much money and I fell in love with Bandon and I was able to stay there. But now there's a couple of hotels. There's Airbnbs, some really nice places. I will preface though, it's. You know, for budget travel, probably not the best place you're gonna wanna go up to COOs Bay or something like that.

But Bandon, has spectacular beaches, long sandy beaches, headlands. Um, so it's just, uh, it's, it's one of my absolute favorite places and definitely check it out or at least. And same thing for eating. Oh my God.

Do you wanna eat well too to, you know, so, yeah, and 

of 

course, 

matter of fact, I, I need to jump to COOs Bay.

Like a lot of places in the Northwest as the industrial base is kind of moving out or whatever, you have to reinvent yourself. And COOs Bay is definitely, um, incorporating more of, um, the recreation and, , for recreation. And the thing that absolutely blew me away, I did a conference down there a couple years ago.

And I was introduced foodies, oh my god, some of the best restaurants and COOs Bay. Again, this is a place you would've thought, you know, would, would've been a kind of a meat and potato type place. But the seafood, the fusion, , there are some amazing places to eat there. Uh, and , lots of options to stay.

You can go out to the, to the shore Acres, um, area, uh, which is a whole series of parks. This is near Cape Rigo and there's a whole series of parks and it was the, there was the estate of Simpson, the big timber baron.

So his home, his mansion is there and a lot of this area that was his estate. Now it's all, uh, state parks. So that's a really cool area to check out. And it's a favorite. I've camp, I've actually camped out there too. It's a beautiful, um, state park out there. So put that on your must do. Just south of that is another interesting place.

And this is,, this the, uh, south Slew Reserve and this is a national estuary, uh, research preserve. So there's 30 of these. The US and,, almost all. Yeah, and I'm trying 

to, I don't know anything about those. That's so 

interesting. Oh, and I'm trying to get to all of them and the probably the reason why you don't know much about 'em, because most of them are on the East coast.

Most of them are from Texas up to Maine. Uh, but they're, that probably 

is the reason. 

Yeah. There's one in Washington. I live really close to it, so, so I've been there. And that's Padilla Bay in Skagit Countys. Oh, I 

love Padilla Bay. 

Then you've been to one. So that's one of our, 

yeah, I just didn't, one of our 

places 

I didn't know.

I just didn't know. Always learning 

something. 

Doing this job, 

there's only 30, there's a couple in California, uh, Tijuana Rivers one, so almost in Mexico. The other, the other one is, um. South sl, which is, right outside of COO Bay. So there's trails there, there's an environmental center. Uh, and so you'll get to really see this estuary preserve and, and, and, um, you know, how important estuaries are to this, to, well, not just to the northwest, but to coastal systems, period.

And that's why these preserves were established,, realizing how important in, in, in the past, you know, they, were dumping grounds and, and everything and how we're trying to restore them. So definitely check that out. And then. As you keep going farther north, you're gonna go over one of the most amazing bridges and, that's itself, you're just driving the 1, 1 0 1.

The bridges are incredible. They were all built in the 1930s. The WPA, the Works Pro, progress Administration. Beautiful. I mean that whole art deco style, some of the most beautiful bridges. I've seen , in this all on the Oregon coast, so you can admire that. Um, but you're gonna get to the Oregon dunes area.

In the Oregon dunes area. It's kind of a mixed bag., I don't spend that much time there 'cause so much of it is open to motorize, , but there are parts of the dunes, that are not.

, I get more attracted to. The coastal headlands and the old growth sickest spruce forest and things like that. And I just want quiet too.

. Once you, you start getting north of Florence, um, then things start getting really, really. Spectacular game because you start getting peaks grow right on the coast. Uh, so then this is cool too because, you know that, , you can hike.

So you get into Cape Perpetua, which is a national forest area, and, and the SA Law National Forest as a national scenic area. You can hike down along, um, tide pools and, and headlands and then go hike up a mountain. , This area too was. Was, uh, a lot of the recreation was developed during the depression, so a lot of the CCC, so some of the buildings are, they're beautiful, these stoned buildings, the campgrounds.

And then what's also cool, you're gonna start getting a stretch where there's, there's, uh, federal wilderness areas. Most of the national forest and the state forest all along the Oregon coast is heavily logged. Very, very, very little old growth remaining. So, so these areas where, where you can finally.

Check out that it will, will blow you away because the sickest spruce, you know, it just grows from Northern California all way southeast Alaska, just along the coast. These trees grow so fast, so sturdy. I mean, they're amazing. So if you wanna see some giant old growth, um, sickest spruce, you wanna go to Cape Perpetuum and you wanna hike in the Cummins Creek wilderness area.

Mm-hmm. And there's some great trails in there. Have you, have you hiked in there, Jane? 

No, I haven't, but it sounds really cool. I'm always on the hunt for. Old growth forests, especially one, especially when they're in pockets of places. You wouldn't otherwise see them. Like the old growth trees that are in Seattle City Parks or 

Right, right.

You 

know, something like 

that. Stewart. Stewart Parks. Got it. Some amazing old growth. 

Yep. And Schmitz, uh, Schmitz 

is 

another 

great one for old 

growth. That Seattle. Mm-hmm. 

Yep. Yep. 

Anyway, so I always love hearing about this. 

Yeah. So these, you'll, you'll be surprised. 'cause again, you know, because the highway goes along.

Um, 1 0 1. Yeah. 1 0 1 goes along the Oregon coast and everything. What's really cool is that you go inland these areas with these, these wilderness areas, these federal wilderness, and you're going, you're gonna see what, what in essence, what so much of the coast looked like before that development.

There's coastal prairie areas too and everything. So some really cool stuff to see, you know, marble murals live in some of these old growth forests. Um, so definitely in elk, I mean, again, the elk, the elk population is, pretty prolific out in these areas.

Drift Creek is, I mean, um, rock Creek is another area, but not many trails develop trails in Rock Creek. So if you really, it's a wilderness area, so if you really wanna do some, some exploring, check out Rock Creek. But another one of my favorite wilderness areas on the coast, its a little bit farther north.

North of Newport. And that is the Drift Creek wilderness. And, so the Drift Creek Wilderness, uh, area has got several trails. Um, you don't wanna go there in the wintertime. Well, you can't actually. I've been to winter. But the thing, if you, if you want to go, you have to forward the creek and that, is not gonna be possible in the winter.

But you hike down, you start up high, and you hike down into. This ravine,, to the creek, and that's a really cool area. You're not gonna see too many people in there. Lots of big trees., And that's really close to Newport and Newport's, one of those, those towns that, that's fun. , The near Yaa Bay.

Yaquina Bay, um, there's, wonderful food that's most of the development is in there, all your restaurants. But along the beach too, you've got, historic lighthouses in that area. Um, state parks, wide sandy areas, I, there's an aquarium there. So that's a great family friendly place. , Lots of lodging options, uh, to, to base out of if you wanna stay there.

So, so that's all, all pretty cool. And then you keep going, uh, north of there. Some of my, where are some of my favorite areas, uh, along the Oregon coast, so we're getting a little bit, we're getting north of Newport now, so we're getting closer to Washington for, for, for shorter drives and everything.

Yeah. 

Uh, a lot of stuff around till Mc Bay is incredible. Mm-hmm. So, you know, if you're driven 1 0 1, 1 0 1 kind of goes really inland. 

Yeah. 

Tillamook County, right? Yep. Through all the farms, the area. So a lot of people, if they're just. Pass and through. They skip. You have to go off on, on secondary roads and they're all good pave roads.

Some of 'em are state highways kind of to get into some of these areas. Some of them end, uh, on, on spits, so they're not. So you can't drive through, which also keeps the traffic down because it's inconvenient if people just wanna keep going one way. So you check some of that area out, like Cape Marris has some amazing trails in there.

Even little places like, like the sedge, uh, state natural area. Really cool. Uh, I explored that a couple years ago. Um. Really, and, and I never even heard of the place. It's, it's fairly new. Uh, and that's, it's, I mean, it's one of those places again, you can show up on the coast and miles and miles of walking.

There's interior, lots of wildlife, uh, rare plants and no crowds., So I really enjoy that place too. And then as we keep going farther north, um, , get to Lincoln City. Another, uh, family friendly place where, where people may, uh, wanna base out of very, very popular hike. There is Cascade Head.

, It's just North Lincoln State. It's owned by the Nature Conservancy and there's been problems with trespassing, little trails and everything. Um, you know, definitely pay attention to the rules on that one.

It is a spectacular place. Uh, but you are not gonna be alone there, if you're looking for places a little bit farther, I mean that still in Bay Area is gonna be a little quieter if you do do some of those other, uh, parks in there, you keep going farther north. You're gonna get back onto the coast and everything.

And probably one of my favorite hikes, uh, and probably a lot of people's favorite hikes along the Oregon coast. And the Oregon Trail goes up and over. This, it might be one of the rougher sections is Nia, Connie Mountain. Have you, have you been there? 

No, I 

There's only a couple hikes I've done down there Coast.

, Nia Connie's a wonderful hike. So you go up, um, there's two ways you can get up there and, and went to the view. Of, , Nehalem Bay, uh, the spit that's just, uh, in the beach. And you look out at this big sandy spit in the bay and the waves crashing.

You're like, oh my God, this is like picture perfect. It is just a spectacular hike. And then you can hike down the other side. This is Oswald West State Park. And this is a great state park too. This is, uh, just south of Canon Beach. Lots of trails, lots of of coves and punch bowls and all kinds of stuff.

, So if you are going to Canon Beach, uh, this is a place you definitely wanna check out. And if you are staying in Canon Beach too, between Canon Beach and Seaside, , is a wonderful trail that, that, that will take you. It follows actually, uh, Clark from Lewis and Clark that when he had.

Hiked over there, found a beach whale in, ecola, which is, uh, the word, you know, for, for whale. That was the, but he had, um. He had found a beach whale in there. So it is an historic route. The salt works in Seaside, uh, and Seaside's, funny seaside's, kind of like the only, um, I first went through it, it's like the only east coast type old, uh, beach town.

It's got that flavor flavor to it. It's got a long history, you know, Portland. And matter of fact, it was because of places like Seaside when they were developing right. On the sandy areas, the beach in the turn of the century with the railroads that the state started saying, you know, we need to start protecting these places.

Yeah. And that kind of forced, uh, the whole idea. Matter of fact, it was Governor West, uh, Oswell West back in 1917, first came up with the idea that we need to have the beaches public. Um, and it was 50 years later. But you know what also I found was really interesting and, and people realize how special the Oregon coast was, that area I was telling you earlier, uh, Boardman.

The Southern, uh, in the 1930s there was legislation to make that a national park. So again, it was national park worthy. Um, oh, you know, uh, so, 

but it didn't happen. 

Didn't happen. 

Just 

like the Columbia River Gorge that we've talked about should be a national park. 

So when you think about it representing the West Coast, so many of the amazing coastal areas, um.

There. Yeah, there's no really na I mean the Olympic has, you know, national Park on the coast and that that coastal strip wasn't even added until the 1950s. So it's kind of interesting that we, we, we weren't looking at these coast. Big Sur is an amazing place and all that. That's certainly National Park.

But that the state, the state did everything, all the state park. So we never, we never really focused the redwood. National Park has some coastal areas now too. But again, that was developed in the sixties. 

Right? 

So, so really, but in the 1930s, we were definitely looking at, at the Oregon coast as being a, a great example, uh, of.

Of, of the West Coast environment. Spectacular never happened. Um, but, uh, thankfully the state has moved in and it's a 12 mile stretch in there that would've been the National Park is now one of the Oregon's signature state parks. So, so where have you been? Uh, you need, I, I, you need to get more. I didn't realize how much I've done on the coast too, and I didn't even mention all the places I've been there too, so.

I, so by the way, listeners, if you're interested in other hikes in Oregon, um, in March of 2025, we had an episode with our friends, , Matt Wastradowski and Adam Sawyer, and they talked about they're, they're both. Sort of like the Craigs of Oregon a little bit. Um, and so they, uh, they talked about some of their favorite places all over Oregon.

That did include some places at the coast and near the coast. So, um, so to answer your question, Craig, I have done, I've spent very little time in Oregon except at Crater Lake. 

And Crater Lake's a great place to be too. 

And gas stations on the way to Crater Lake, 

we're gonna 

have 

to, we're gonna have to change that.

Yeah. 

Like people have always, um, said things like, oh, you must have been to Bend many times. I've been to a gas station in Bend many times, but that's it. You know, crater Lake is like a 10 hour drive from Seattle, so it was a really long day. Getting there. And so we would go there about once a year for seven years or so.

And I went to the Oregon coast a couple times as a kid, but like I really haven't spent very much time there. 

So, you know, , I have a couple resources. , I have not written anything on the Oregon coast, but I can certainly do some recommendation. My publisher, mountaineers' books, uh, Bonnie Henderson Oregonian, um, her day hiking Oregon Coast is, is, is a great book, great resource.

William Sullivan, who's definitely the, the Romano of Oregon, um, who's written, he's written 20 something books. Uh, he's got a great Oregon coast book. I've used it many, many times. Um, green trails maps., Put out three beautiful, um, special series maps for the entire coast, south, central North. Those are really good resource. And then of course, um, Adam and, and Matt

, i should mention this is kind of coastal, kind of inland. So if you've been in Astoria and you're up there on, on the column and you're looking to the south, there's this big 3000 foot mountain.

. And, uh, it looks, boy, that looks intriguing., That's Saddle Mountain. And it's, there's a state park there that is a must do hike. . On a clear day, uh, because you're gonna see so much of, of the ocean. Uh, and likewise, when I'm hiking in the Southern Cascades, I'm Mount St. Helens or anything.

I got a clear day. I can always pick that out. I can see, wow, there it is. I'm like, my God, that's the Oregon coast. That's how far in those clear days. So it's a very prominent peak. It stands all by itself. And, and I should also mention too, that whole till mc burn area, uh, it burned in the 1930s. It's, it's a state forest.

Um. So, you know, we're looking at it almost a hundred years old now, right? 90 years. So the trees are quite mature. There are miles and miles and miles of hiking trails in that area. I did, I did an ultra in there a couple years ago just with waterfalls and all kinds of stuff. Stuff I never even even considered.

So you are coming in from Portland or Vancouver in that area? Uh, on the way to the coast, there are, there are some incredible places to hike. , On the way out there, there's, uh, elk and King Mountain are classic. They're very steep.

They high, I think 4,000 feet, , and lastly I should mention, I finally got to about two years ago about Mary's Peak, uh, which is between Corvallis and the coast. It's the highest. 

Oh, okay. 

It's the highest peak on the, or in the Oregon Coastal Mountains. 

How high? How 

high is it? I think it's 4,200 feet.

Okay. 

Uh, and you can drive a, a, a good ways up, but I started to hike and it's all open, it's prairie on the top so you can save it on. Oh, 

that's cool. 

You can see 

really further 

on. Yeah. And when you get up there, the views too of the sisters, you know, and, uh, you know, all your Southern Mount Jefferson, it, it, it's incredible.

Crest, Willamette, uh, farmlands everything, but then. You really realize too, how rugged that Oregon coastal range, just all these rows of mountains and valleys, it, it truly is a, a rugged area. And a lot of that has kept it from, you know, I mean, look at it, when you look at a map, the population base isn't on the coast.

It's in the Willamette Valley. There are no big cities. I mean, co Bay is the, is the largest metropolitan area in there, and it's still in the bay and it's it's still small compared to Yeah. You know, it's, it's not San Francisco, so 

it's not. Well, Craig, thank you so much for sharing all these awesome bits of insight for the Oregon coast.

It's really fun, you know, even though we primarily talk about Washington, it is fun now and then to talk about our neighbors, um, right, like when we talked about BC and we talked about Oregon before. Um, and we have another episode about Oregon this month too.





All right, well thank you so much, Craig. See everybody next week. 

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