Nice place to walk around. Nothing too special. Bunch of birds and geeks around.
Very beautiful place to take pictures at. Education cuts 60000 to 100000 per year but parking lot is free after 4pm
DISCOVERY PASS is required but you can park your car outside of the park for free. It is not too far to walk from there to the trail.
Almost all the way to the waterfall you go downhill, so when you want to go back to you car, you have to climb stairs.
The place is good. We had children and older people with us - everyone was able to make it. The waterfall looks interesting - you can actually get all the way to the water but it is hiking thru the forest.
If there is no guards, you can go all the way down and swim around the waterfall. It takes some time to get there but experience is unforgettable!
We are visiting this place every year, you can not get tired of Mt Rainier
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HISTORY
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The second recorded journey by a European to what is now Cannon Beach was made by William Clark, one of the leaders of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in early 1806. The expedition was wintering at Fort Clatsop, roughly 20 miles (32 km) to the north near the mouth of the Columbia River. In December 1805, two members of the expedition returned to camp with blubber from a whale that had beached several miles south, near the mouth of Ecola Creek. Clark later explored the region himself.
From a spot near the western cliffs of the headland he saw "...the grandest and most pleasing prospects which my eyes ever surveyed, in front of a boundless Ocean..." That viewpoint, later dubbed "Clark's Point of View," can be accessed by a hiking trail from Indian Beach in Ecola State Park.
Clark and several of his companions, including Sacagawea, completed a three-day journey on January 10, 1806, to the site of the beached whale. They encountered a group of Native Americans from the Tillamook tribe who were boiling blubber for storage. Clark and his party met with them and successfully bartered for 300 pounds (140 kg) of blubber and some whale oil before returning to Fort Clatsop.
There is wooden whale sculpture commemorating the encounter between Clark's group and the Tillamooks in a small park at the northern end of Hemlock Street.
In 1846, a cannon from the US Navy schooner Shark washed ashore just north of Arch Cape, a few miles south of the community. The schooner hit land while attempting to cross the Columbia Bar, also known as the "Graveyard of the Pacific." The cannon, rediscovered in 1898, eventually inspired a name change for the growing community. In 1922, Elk Creek was redubbed Cannon Beach (after the name of the beach that extends south of Ecola Creek for 8 miles (13 km), ending at Arch Cape) at the insistence of the Post Office Department because the name was frequently confused with Eola. Elk Creek itself was renamed Ecola Creek to honor William Clark's original name.
The cannon is now housed in the city's museum and a replica of it can be seen alongside U.S. Highway 101. Two more cannons, also believed to have been from the Shark, were discovered on Arch Cape over the weekend of February 16, 2008.
If you visit this place in the March, when sun is just getting hot, you can see how the steam above that wet part of the sand. Great place for photography, long walks and just relaxing. It feels like california for some reason however, it is much closer to to Washington State than Cali ;D
Make sure you have a camera on you when you visit Cannon Beach
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Annual cultural events
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The city hosts an annual sand castle-building contest in June.
The city also hosts an annual Fourth of July parade. Parades in recent years have featured a military flyover and a "Lawn Chair Brigade".
"Spring Unveiling" is an annual arts festival, held on the first Sunday in May, hosted by the city's galleries.
There is an annual late fall festival called the Stormy Weather Arts Festival, held in November, where artists from the Pacific Northwest showcase their artwork in the local galleries. Artwork is available for purchase in an auction held at the end of the event.
We were visiting Los Angeles with my friend. We had no plans to stay there for a night but plans changed so we were looking in google for cheap place to stay at. This hotel had a nice deal - only $60 per night for 2. We reserved a room.
Their web page had pictures of nice room with modern furniture in it. It looked like perfect place for teenager / young adult or youth. When we moved in, we realized that reality is not as good as pictures...
The room was freshly painted but you can still see that building is old (not retro, OLD). Furniture looks modern but cheap quality. There are 3 showers and 3 restrooms on the floor so each room has only sink and little table and TV in it.
Breakfast was simple, made of cheapest food that you can ever find.
HOWEVER, the building looks cool - something you may see in old films. First floor lobby has iMacs and x-boxes for gaming and internet browsing. A little movie theatre is available for free as well.
After all, if you are young and looking for cheap prices - this place is for you. I would not recommend this hotel for family vacation but people in their 14-27 may stay there and have fun. For 60 dollars it is clean place and good location.
Great place for Parkour, Hide-and-seek game and camping. We visited this place with a group of teenagers and had awesome time there. If you bring some food wit you, you can spend the whole day there with your friends playing games on the field and exploring old buildings. A few trails available there as well.
HISTORY
Designed as part of the massive modernization program of U.S. seacoast fortifications initiated by the Endicott Board, construction on Fort Casey began in 1897. In 1901, the big guns on disappearing carriages, which could be raised out of their protective emplacements so that the guns were exposed only long enough to fire, became active. However, the fort's batteries became obsolete almost as soon as their construction was completed. The invention of the airplane in 1903, and the subsequent development of military aircraft made the fort vulnerable to air attack. In addition, the development of battleships designed with increasingly accurate weaponry transformed the static strategies of the nineteenth century into the more mobile attack systems of the twentieth century. Most of Fort Casey's guns and mortars were removed during World War I, when they were mounted on railcars to serve as mobile heavy artillery. Some of these weapons were returned to the fort after the war, and were scrapped during World War II as 16-inch guns and other weapons at other forts superseded them.
The two 10-inch guns on disappearing carriages currently mounted at Fort Casey were transferred from the Philippines in the 1960s, along with two three-inch guns. The 10-inch guns are M1895MI (No. 26 and No. 28 Watervliet) on disappearing carriages M1901 (No. 13 and No. 15 Watertown) at Battery Worth, Fort Casey (originally at Battery Warwick, Fort Wint, Grande Island, Philippines). The three-inch guns are M1903 (No. 11 and No. 12) on barbette carriages M1903 (No. 6 and No. 7) at Battery Trevor, Fort Casey (originally at Battery Flake, Fort Wint).