by CoastView | Aug 4, 2024 | 2024, California, Coastal Features, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Lighthouses, Parks, Shipwrecks
Point Cabrillo is a sandstone headland marked with a lighthouse, between Point Arena and Cape Mendocino, about 6.7 miles (11 km) south of Fort Bragg and 1.3 miles (2 km) southwest of Caspar, California. The point was named in 1870 by the U.S. Geological Survey for the...
by CoastView | Aug 3, 2024 | 2024, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Parks
Thor’s Well is at Cook’s Chasm, a fissure in the rock approximately 400 feet (122 m) long and 60 feet (18 m) wide between Captain Cook Point and Cape Perpetua, about 20 miles (32 km) north of Florence and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Yachats, Oregon. The...
by CoastView | Jul 30, 2024 | 2024, California, Communities, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Lighthouses
Trinidad Head is a prominent headland joined to the mainland by a narrow isthmus adjacent to the town of Trinidad and protecting Trinidad Bay, about 48 miles (77 km) south of Crescent City and 18 miles (29 km) north of Eureka, California. The bay is one of the few...
by CoastView | Jul 23, 2024 | 2024, California, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical
Bodega Head is a granitic promontory at the north end of Bodega Bay in Sonoma County, approximately 40 miles (64 km) northwest of San Francisco and 20 miles (32 km) west of Santa Rosa, California. The headland and Doran Beach form a natural harbor protected from open...
by CoastView | Jul 21, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Parks
Cape Lookout is a narrow basalt headland about 2 miles (3.2 km) long with vertical sea cliffs 800 feet (244 m) high in Cape Lookout State Park and the Siuslaw National Forest, about 26 miles (42 km) north of Lincoln City and 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Tillamook,...
by CoastView | Jul 15, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Headlands, Historical, Land Use, Oregon, Parks
Hug Point is a headland in Hug Point State Recreation Site on the northern Oregon coast, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the community of Arch Cape and 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Cannon Beach, Oregon. The name dates to the late 19th century when this remote section of...