by CoastView | Mar 15, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Coastal Features, Headlands, Land Use, Mines, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
Lone Ranch Beach is a sand and gravel deposit at Cape Ferrelo situated between Lone Ranch Creek to the north and Ram Creek to the south in Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor, about 22 miles (35 km) south of Gold Beach and 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Brookings,...
by CoastView | Mar 13, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Natural History, Parks
Gilman Glacier starts at an elevation of roughly 6,000 feet (1,828 m)in the Fairweather Range of the Saint Elias Mountains and flows generally northwest for 7.5 miles (12 km) to Johns Hopkins Inlet in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, about 105 miles (169 km)...
by CoastView | Mar 9, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Embayments, Land Use, Natural History, Oregon, Parks
Netarts Spit is in Cape Lookout State Park and extends north for 6 miles (10 km) from Cape Lookout, forming Netarts Bay, an estuary of 2,179 acres (883 ha) for several minor streams draining the western flank of an unnamed peninsula separating Tillamook Bay from the...
by CoastView | Mar 8, 2024 | 2024, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Land Use, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Hoh River starts from the terminus of the Hoh Glacier at an elevation of roughly 4,200 feet (1,280 m) on the northeast flank of Mount Olympus in Olympic National Park and flows generally west-southwest for 56 miles (90 km) draining a watershed of 191,360 acres (77,441...
by CoastView | Mar 4, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Beaches, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
Dinglestadt Glacier has two land terminating lobes that straddle a watershed divide in the Kenai Mountains, with a minor lobe descending southeast for 4 miles (6 km) from an elevation of roughly 3300 feet (1006 m) to a tidal delta on the western shore of McCarty...
by CoastView | Feb 27, 2024 | 2024, Alaska, Coastal Features, Embayments, Glaciers, Land Use, Natural History, Parks
McBride Glacier starts from a series of cirques at elevations near 5500 feet (1676 m) on the southern flank of the Takhinsha Mountains in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve and flows generally south for roughly 10 miles (16 km) to McBride Inlet which connects to...
