Cape Perpetua

This 2700 acre park on the Oregon Coast is a great place for some day hiking. It is located 3 miles south of Yachats Oregon. There are ten trails to choose from that range up to 10 miles. We chose the ten mile hike. 

We parked along road 55 just off highway 101. A half mile hike south took us through the campground and up to the visitors center. From there we chose the Cooks Ridge Trail. We hiked up through forests of Spruce, Hemlock and Fir to a junction with Cummins Creek Trail.

 Along the way we saw this monster of a stump. Ancient and weathered, we marveled at its immense size and beauty.

Western Trillium finds a ray of sun to brighten up the forest floor beneath old growth forests. 

The Oregon Oxalis is everywhere  and like the Western Trillium brightens the forest floor in Spring.

This opening in the forest sits above a large open meadow on the south side of a hill overlooking Cummins Creek and the Pacific Ocean

English Daisy

 The Yellow Monkey Flower

Woodland Flox and English Daisy?

At the bottom of Cummins Creek Trail we took the Oregon Coast Trail North to the visitors center.



This trail travels the entire length of Oregon. Most of it is on the beach made possible by the Oregon Beach Bill of 1967 making public property of the beaches. Of the 382 miles, 150 miles are on pavement. This one mile section follows the original wagon trail that predated Highway 101.

Cape Perpetua and the Pacific Ocean and...well... me.

Smiths Fairybell lines the path from the visitors center back to our car