Hwy 101 mile marker 300.
Port Orford Heads State Park offers a museum, as well as an actual
lifeboat on display. It's a 36 foot wooden craft for which restoration is planned. A hiking trail winds around the outer edges
of the headlands, offering remarkable views to the South and to the North. You are about 100 feet above the ocean.
Site Resources: museum, 36ft lifeboat in its own pavillion, picnic tables, restroom
Oregon Parks link:Port Orford Heads S. P. No fee required.
Entrance on 101 |
SIgn in park |
36 foot Coast Guard ship |
This walkway winds around the entire peninsula |
Some photos taken at Port Orford Head
View from the trail |
Here's a view looking out over the ocean from the hiking trail that winds around the entire headlands. |
This view is looking South through the trees. |
View to the South |
View to the North |
And here's a view to the North. At the tip of the distant peninsula is Cape Blanco. |
Copyright © 2013 J.A.