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Oregon Coast Events Look Into Breaking up with Plastics - Fishing Industry Published 02/09/21 at 4:06 AM PDT By Oregon Coast Beach Connection staff (Oregon Coast) – On the north and central Oregon coast, two digital presentations bring you some fun and informative tidbits about the region. One is based out of Newport and the other from Cannon Beach. (Photo above courtesy Tiffany Boothe, Seaside Aquarium: fishing boats off Cannon Beach) On the north Oregon coast, the World of Haystack Rock Li...

Tucked away in Cannon Beach, a quiet hike meanders through old-growth forest By Jamie Hale, oregonlive.com Share: 5 Photos The 1,040-acre Ecola Creek Forest Reserve contains a small segment of old-growth coastal rainforest, Photo Gallery If you made a list of the best natural attractions in and around Cannon Beach, you’d have to get pretty far down before mentioning the Ecola Creek Forest Reserve. That’s no knock against the 1,040-acre reserve, a place of quiet beau...

5 Charming Small Towns To Visit Along The Oregon Coast Feb.7.2021 I love the Oregon Coast and the drive along Highway 101. The beaches vary between long stretches of packed sand you can drive on to epic, rocky cliffs with crashing waves. You will also see plenty of sea stacks, which are large stacks of rocks that were once part of the coastline. The most iconic is Haystack Rock, located on Cannon Beach. As you work your way south along Highway 101, you won’t find crowded, large, resort bea...

Cannon Beachs Silver Point Interpretive Overlook | N. Oregon Coast Stunner - Video Published 02/04/21 at 3:57 AM PDT By Oregon Coast Beach Connection staff (Cannon Beach, Oregon) – Those inescapably beautiful and cajoling viewpoints just south of Cannon Beach: they’re likely one of the most popular on the entire Oregon coast. Everybody stops there, especially those jetting through on their first time, drawn there abruptly by the ease of pulling off the road and the near-explosion of scene...

Tucked away in Cannon Beach, a quiet hike meanders through old-growth forest Updated Feb 02, 2021; Posted Feb 02, 2021 Towering trees, massive ferns and rough-skinned newts populate the Ecola Creek Forest Reserve, a 1,040-acre community forest that protects part of the watershed in Cannon Beach on the Oregon coast.Jamie Hale/The Oregonian Facebook Share If you made a list of the best natural attractions in and around Cannon Beach, you’d have to get pretty far down before mentioning the Ecol...

Just how long has the Yellowstone Hotspot been around? Release Date: February 1, 2021 The Yellowstone hotspot—the source of heat that powers Yellowstone’s vast volcanic system—has long been thought to have initiated about 17 million years ago.  A growing volume of evidence, however, suggests that it has been around much longer. Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This weeks contribution...

Cannon Beach is drawing tourists this winter, but business doesn’t necessarily follow OregonLive.com 1/31/2021 Jamie Hale, oregonlive.com © Jamie Hale/The Oregonian/Jamie Hale/The Oregonian/oregonlive.com/TNS Karen Dials, of Hillsboro, shops at Geppettos Toy Shoppe in Cannon Beach during the coronavirus pandemic. The winter sun sank behind Haystack Rock on a Friday in January, turning the horizon a brilliant gold. A crowd of people swarmed in the deep purple shadow, their...

Looking Back at the Mystery of the Unusual Gooey Beach Balls Along Oregon, Canadian Coast Published 01/14/21 at 9:06 PM PDT By Oregon Coast Beach Connection staff (Oregon Coast) – Mysteries abound on the Oregon and Washington coast, especially if you’re simply walking around these beaches. The average beachcomber glances at all sorts of stuff they don’t know what to make of, and some make note of it while others don’t. (All photos courtesy Haystack Rock Awareness Program) Latest Coas...

Reedsport to Brookings, places to stay; winter deals (Oregon Coast) – One thing that becomes immensely fun if you get deep into photography is shooting the beaches at night. Yet weather on the Oregon coast – big surprise – doesn’t always cooperate with that. The startling truth about that is - so what? One of the more lovely design elements of the region is the mists and fog that envelope the area. The same can be true of night photography here. The other miraculous and even jaw-droppi...

Two Oregon Coast Attractions Reopen Friday | Online Lectures Resume Published 01/01/21 at 3:05 PM PDT By Oregon Coast Beach Connection staff (Seaside, Oregon) – Since a handful of Oregon coast counties have been upgraded from extreme risk to high risk, some reopenings around the region will happen. For lovers of aquariums, only one facility opens back up, however, but another famed history museum in Astoria swings open its doors. Meanwhile, Cannon Beachs Friends of Haystack Rocks lecture ...