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...
by CoastView | Jul 12, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Chemical Pollution, Communities, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, Islands, Shipwrecks
Cathedral Rocks is an island 0.3 miles (0.5 km) west of Cathedral Point on the northern shore of Makushin Bay, on the west coast of Unalaska Island in the Eastern Aleutians, about 98 miles (158 km) northwest of Nikolski and 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Dutch Harbor,...
by CoastView | Jul 11, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Developments, Headlands, Historical, Lighthouses
Tree Point is a historic lighthouse on the east shore of Revillagigedo Channel on the Southeast Alaska mainland, about 42 miles (68 km) northwest of Prince Rupert, and 48 miles (77 km) southeast of Ketchikan, Alaska. The light is currently an active and important aid...
