by CoastView | Nov 2, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Best of 2021, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Mines, November 2024, Parks, Washington
Point of Arches and the adjacent Shi Shi Beach represent a unique wilderness shoreline located at the western edge of the Olympic National Park, about 24 miles (39 km) north of La Push and 9 miles (15 km) south-southwest of Neah Bay, Washington. The archaeological...
by CoastView | Sep 5, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Best of 2021, California, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Rivers
Soquel Creek runs through Capitola, a community adjacent to Santa Cruz on the north coast of Monterey Bay, about 75 miles (120 km) south of San Francisco and 26 miles (42 km) north of Monterey, California. Soquel Creek has a drainage area of about 25,600 acres (10,360...
by CoastView | Aug 21, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Best of 2021, Chemical Pollution, Communities, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use
Tin City is a historical mining community on Cape Prince of Wales, located at the mouth of Cape Creek and adjacent to Cape Mountain on the Seward Peninsula, about 103 miles (166 km) northwest of Nome and 6 miles (10 km) southeast of Wales, Alaska. Cape Prince of Wales...
by CoastView | Aug 15, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Best of 2021, Canneries, Coastal Features, Communities, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Land Use, Oregon, Parks, Rivers
Cape Kiwanda is a sandstone headland with an elevation of 240 feet (73 m), protected by a basalt island known as Haystack Rock lying 0.5 miles (0.8 km) to the southwest, about 18 miles (29 km) south-southwest of Tillamook and 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of Pacific City,...
by CoastView | Jul 28, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Best of 2021, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Rivers, Shipwrecks
Camp Castaway is a historical site on North Spit of Coos Bay, a sandy, vegetated peninsula separating the estuary of the Coos River from the Pacific Ocean, about 3.8 miles (6 km) west of North Bend and 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Charleston, Oregon. The spit was the site...
by CoastView | Jul 27, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Best of 2021, Canneries, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Islands
Larsen Bay is a small village and historical salmon cannery on Larsen Bay, an embayment that extends 6 miles (9.6 km) off of Uyak Bay on the west coast of Kodiak Island, about 125 miles (202 km) southeast of King Salmon and 58 miles (94 km) west-southwest of Kodiak,...
