Almost profoundly intense in its stunning scenic contrasts, Cape Perpetua is, at 800 feet elevation, the highest spot on the Oregon Coast. It is poised between the ocean and steep forest, and is home to an artist community. Great tide pool action can be found along the little rocky beach into which the diminutive Yachats River flows. The view from the Heceta Head Light Station in Yachats, Ore., includes this stretch of rugged coastline. The central Oregon coast provides contrasts in scenery and unassuming people.
Summer is the best time to visit.
Produce stands, galleries, restaurants perched on cliffs and one scenic turnout after another beckon you to slow down and enjoy the ride. If you pull over, he'll tell you old train stories and treat you to a demonstration in his model train room set up in the garage. A great place to stop for a sandwich or just to gather or lose your thoughts. This park suddenly appears in a bend in the road about 2 miles south of Newport, and it seems as if you're suddenly in Hawaii or maybe somewhere in the tropics. It has big fields of grass and trees with dirt paths that meander until you get to a wooden footbridge spanning placid Beaver Creek and that end on a beautiful, long, flat and largely unoccupied beach serenity on the sand.