Port city is the oldest city in the state of Oregon and was the first American settlement west of the Rocky Mountains
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Open all year though fully accessible for only four months during summer, owing to the very heavy winter snowfall
Overview
Astoria, at the mouth of the Columbia River, is the oldest American settlement west of the Rockies. Lewis and Clark spent the winter of 1805-06 at Fort Clatsop, southwest of town. It has Victorian houses on the hillside, a working waterfront, and a growing art scene, and is best known as the setting of the 1985 film The Goonies.
Highlights
- Astoria Column: a 125-foot tower on Coxcomb Hill, with a spiral staircase and views of the river and Pacific
- Columbia River Maritime Museum: Columbia Bar shipwrecks and lifesaving history
- Oregon Film Museum: in the old Clatsop County Jail seen in The Goonies
- Flavel House Museum: a Queen Anne mansion of 1886
- Astoria Riverfront Trolley: runs along the waterfront in season
- Lewis and Clark National Historical Park: the reconstructed Fort Clatsop
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