Cannon Beach, OR

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Popular coastal tourist destination famous for Haystack Rock, a 235 ft sea stack that juts out along the Pacific Coast

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Open all year though fully accessible for only four months during summer, owing to the very heavy winter snowfall
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Overview

Cannon Beach is a small artsy beach town famous for Haystack Rock, a 235-foot sea stack, and named by National Geographic in 2013 as one of the world's 100 most beautiful places. It has a walkable downtown of galleries, shops, and restaurants, a wide sand beach, and a kite festival and sandcastle contest in June. It got its name from a cannon that washed ashore from the shipwrecked USS Shark in 1846.

Highlights

  • Ecola State Park for cliff views and Indian Beach
  • Lewis and Clark history: William Clark and a party crossed Tillamook Head in 1806 to get blubber from a beached whale near Ecola Creek
  • Nearby: Oswald West State Park and Arch Cape

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