|
Grant's Getaways - South Slough Estuary from Travel Oregon on Vimeo.
Once you travel the Cape Arago Highway that skirts a lonesome and lovely section of the Southern Oregon coast, it may become a road once taken that you’ll never want to leave! It leads you past so many intriguing sights that you may well wonder, "Why have I never come this way before."
Fourteen miles southwest of Coos Bay, drop in at Sunset Bay State Park and meet Oregon State Park’s Manager, Preson Phillips, who told me: "It’s one of those trails that just keeps beckoning you on – it’s just a matter of how much you want to hike or do at the time." Make time to wander Sunset Bay State Park, a jewel of a campground that offers 139 sites for tent, trailer or R.V. – plus eight yurts. People who come to camp enjoy a spectacular beachfront that seems framed for the movies – it has been a special destination park since 1942.
If you own a spirit of adventure, you’ll no doubt relish the hiking trail that leads little more than a mile to nearby Cape Arago State Park. Many visitors are surprised to find a front row seat of sorts – a wooden balcony that overlooks Shell Island. Marty Giles, who owns an eco-tourism business called, Wavecrest Discoveries is often on hand to explain the behavior of hundreds of seals and seal lions that just plain loaf across the rocky island and Simpson Reef.
Read more about this week's adventure here.
3.16.09 Walk on the Wild Side
3.23.09 Whitewater Steelhead Fishing
3.30.09 Visitor Friendly Hatcheries
4.06.09 Marine Science in Newport
4.13.09 Secrets in the Sand
4.20.09 The Trail of Ten Falls
4.27.09 Eco-Pub
5.04.09 Tillamook Forest Center
5.11.09 Razor Clamming
5.18.09 Stub Stewart State Park
5.26.09 Rowena Crest Wildflowers
6.01.09 Nestucca River Back Country Byway
6.08.09 Crabbing & Clamming
6.16.09 Three for One Oregon Coast Vacation
6.22.09 Dinosaur of a Fish
6.29.09 Mary's Peak
7.06.09 Up, Up, and Away!
7.13.09 Country Golf
7.20.09 Ocean Coho Fishing
7.27.09 Thompson’s Mills State Heritage Area
8.03.09 High Cascade Canoe
8.10.09 Metolius River
8.17.09 Scapoose Bay Kayaking
8.28.09 Buoy 10 Fishing
9.04.09 Digging into Oregon's Past
9.11.09 Tree Climbing
9.18.09 Linn County Covered Bridges
9.25.09 Black Rock Mountain Biking
10.2.09 Becoming an Outdoors Woman
10.9.09 Wildwood Recreation Area
10.16.09 Fishing for Kings
10.23.09 Oregon Birding Trail
|
|
|