You’ll find this lighthouse in the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area. However, you can have a great experience touring the surroundings and the lower room of the lighthouse even if you opt not to climb to the top. With 114 stairs, it is a long way to climb, but if you do, you’ll have gorgeous views, and you might spot a few migrating grey whales. You can take a guided tour of the lighthouse and even climb the spiral stairway to the top. Built in 1873, it uses its original lens, though the light is automated now, flashing its signature pattern all day long.
Standing 93 feet tall at 162 feet above sea level, the Yaquina Head Lighthouse, on the tip of a narrow strip of land, is still active and working, its light visible for 19 miles offshore. Yaquina Head LighthouseĪfter seeing the shortest lighthouse on our list, you’ll reach the tallest as you make your way south on the Oregon coast. You can visit it as a stop on the Three Capes Scenic Route.
Though decommissioned in 1963, the lighthouse still stands as part of the Cape Meares State Scenic Viewpoint and is open for tours between April and November.
The keeper used a kerosene lamp, later replaced by oil, inside the lens to flash its signature combination of white and red light. The Cape Meares Lighthouse started operating on January 1, 1890. All building materials, including the large Fresnel lens, which weighed over a ton, were brought on a ship and pulled up on the high cliff using a hand-operated crane built from spruce trees found on the cape. When built, this lighthouse was so isolated, it didn’t even have a wagon road leading to it. Though only 38 feet high, the lighthouse stands 217 feet above the ocean on the edge of the cape. The northernmost Oregon lighthouse open to visitors, the Cape Meares Lighthouse is the shortest on the coast. If you time your visit right, you can tour them to learn about their history and understand the way they work. Seven of the original lighthouses of the Oregon coast are open to the public. Automated, with no need for keepers, a few are still operating, and seafarers rely on them as backup navigation systems. No longer needed for navigation, historic lighthouses now stand as witnesses of a past era. Now they acted like navigation systems, signaling ship captains their location on the shore. With this innovation, the lighthouses could each have a signature pattern. The elaborate system of lenses extended the light’s visibility to around 20 miles and allowed it to form individual patterns. Introducing the Fresnel lens in the mid-1800s brought a dramatic improvement. Visible about eight miles at sea, it didn’t always allow enough time to bring the ships to safety. The earliest lighthouses had one white light warning seafarers that a shore was close. Lighthouses helped their captains navigate these dangers, guiding them to safety. However, these same landscape features present threats to ships getting close to the shore. They feel as though Rue is watching over the cottage and looking for her daughter.Sea stacks and jagged reefs, capes protruding into the ocean featuring sandstone cliffs, and shifting sand dunes make the Oregon coast the stunning shoreline we love. While a few strange things have happened at the cottage indicating an otherworldly presence, guests and staff don’t feel threatened and report the apparition never does anything scary or harmful. There’s an unmarked grave on the hillside by the lighthouse, and it has remained undisturbed for all of this time. People say that one of Rue’s daughters drowned, and after Rue died she came back to the lighthouse and stayed, forever looking for her daughter. Rue is thought to have been the lightkeeper’s wife, though no one has been able to confirm it because no list was ever kept of the women and children who stayed in the cottage. This bed and breakfast is loved by all who come to stay, and it’s rumored that one special woman never left, even after she died: a resident ghost named Rue. Guests love to take a walk down the path that leads from the Light Keeper’s home to the lighthouse or beach and imagine what the solitary life of the lighthouse keeper must have been like. A post shared by Lori Ann Norton on at 11:34pm PDT
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