by CoastView | Jun 15, 2025 | 2025, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Headlands, Historical, June 2025, Land Use, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Fort-Columbia.mp3 Fort Columbia, a historic military facility situated on Chinook Point, defended the entrance to the Columbia River from 1896 to 1947 and is now a state park, about 7 miles...
by CoastView | Jun 8, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, June 2025, Land Use, Lighthouses, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Westport.mp3 Westport is a community located on Point Chehalis, a peninsula between South Bay and the Pacific Ocean that partially encloses Grays Harbor from the south, about 53 miles (85 km)...
by CoastView | Jun 1, 2025 | 2025, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, June 2025, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Blyn.mp3 Blyn is a small community where Jimmycomelately Creek flows into Sequim Bay on the northern coast of the Olympic Peninsula, about 13 miles (21 km) southwest of Port Townsend and 7...
by CoastView | May 18, 2025 | 2025, Beaches, Biodiversity, Coastal Features, Historical, Land Use, May 2025, Natural History, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Elwha-River.mp3 The Elwha River starts from a perennial snowfield at an elevation of 4,763 feet (1,452 m) in the Olympic Mountains and flows generally north for 45 miles (72 km) to Angeles...
by CoastView | May 4, 2025 | 2025, Coastal Features, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, May 2025, Parks, Rivers, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Dismal-Nitch.mp3 Dismal Nitch is a cove on the north shore of the lower Columbia River, historically significant as the last campsite of the Lewis and Clark Expedition before they sighted the...
by CoastView | Apr 20, 2025 | 2025, April 2025, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Coastal Features, Communities, Developments, Embayments, Historical, Land Use, Natural History, Rivers, Washington
Listen to the article here https://coastview.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Hoquiam-River.mp3 Hoquiam River drains a 62,720‐acre (25,382 ha) watershed with three main tributaries converging into a single channel that trends south for 2.5 miles (4 km) before joining...
