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About Brookings-Harbor pilot. (Brookings, Curry County, Oregon) 1946-1978 | View Entire Issue (June 25, 1953)
State Parks Draw Tourists to Oregon | hunters. and w here overnight cam ping is perm itted. The forest , creek; Starvation creek; Viento. ser\ ice m aintains a lookout on the O rd erin g a small brook; and Wy- Brookings Harbor Pilot very top of the peak, highest jgant on Perham creek. Overnight THURSDAY. JU N E 25. 1953 P°lnt in the north Oregon coast camping privileges are obtainable parii's Dell park. John B. Yeon range. Forest waysides are m a in -'a t Dabney, Benson and Viento F’ark. Bonneville park and Seneca tained by the parks division, also parks. * Editor’s N ote: This is first of erside re tre a ts and historic sites. along several miles of both the Touts M emorial park, which in series of five articles concerning M ayer S ta te park, atop Rowena cludes the area around Mitchell One ot the most historic sites in Wilson River and Sunset high Oregon s five sta te park districts. crest west of The Dalles, offers Point tunnel. ways. * ! his first article covers sta te park the Oregon country is included in another inspiring viewpoint at an A panoram ic view of valleys to elevation of 747 feet above the In addition to the sta te park areas in the P ortland headquar Champoeg Memorial S ta te park, southeast of Newberg. Here a m u the south, north and east is the Columbia river. Picnic facilities areas described, the landscape di ters district. seum recalls the days of steam rew ard for a visit to Bald Peak vision ot the highway departm ent Over 5*4 million people visited boating on the W illam ette river e m aintained at Zibe Dimmick m aintains roadside picnic areas at S ta te park north of Newberg. This m forest wavside .. ........... “ m im e areas at Oregon sta te parks in 1952 and and a monument lists the names 18 the highest point in tin Che-1 Hood lin e,' » „ ’the M t u 7 “ ? P S p rin g , and W ildcat C iw k the num ber is increasing from ol all those who voted for Ameri- halem m ountains and picnicking 'w in This area „ h : Hood high- along U.S. 26; near Hood River year to year. F or the first tim e an governm ent on May 2, 1843. facilities are m aintained. folk of li.sM t it e r e*S' R° " ''" a alonK *'■ S 30 »'«< “ < lait year, overnight camping fa 110 years ago. The parks divi I illamook river and F arm er creek W illam ette Stone S ta te park cilities were added to a num ber sion has begun the planting of a O ther undeveloped areas along on U. S. Highway 101, all in the tour miles west of Portland s busi ol state parks and again this year labeled arboretum which will in the Columbia gorge include the Portland h eadquarters district. the S tate P arks division looks for clude most ot the native Oregon ness center, is the site of the I routdale-Sandy River parking (Next article Salem S ta te ward to accom m odating some 50,- trees in a grove on the south edge crossing of the W illam ette m eri area. Rooster Rock park. Shep- dian and the east-w est line used P ark d istrict) 000 people who like camping holi of the park. There is a Consider for all governm ent land survevs days in the great outdoors. able demand tor the restoration of in the states of Oregon and W ash S tate park use from the P o rt part of the town of Champoeg. ington. A m ark er connotes this land area, of course, is the g re a t point. Along the coast are several sta te est and within the P ortland head- The Columbia River highway is •¡n.ii t»>i district are 28 sta te parks, parks containing some of the choicest viewpoints and beach •med with a series of sta te parks six roadside picnic area s and six- parks with overnight camping areas. Foremost of these is Ecola, many of which are perhaps best privileges. The Portland area park just north of Cannon Beach, con knoun by natives and visitors which received the g reatest p a t taining over 1100 acres and a alike. Improved facilities for pic ronage last year was Crown Point shore frontage of six miles. Sea nicking are found at Dabney where over 341,000 visitors stop lions and birds inhabit the off along the Sandy river; Guy W. ped to see the panoram a of the shore seastacks and small herds falbot, containing L atourell “falls; Columbia gorge spread before ot elk and deer roam the park at Benson, near M ultnom ah falls; them from the Vista House. An will. No better place along the Ainsworth, at the foot of St. coast may be found for a surfside 1 etei s dome; Lindsey, on Lindsey other viewpoint park. Bradley, on picnic. the lower Columbia river had a Over 2100 acres are contained in count of over 156,000 visitors. The S ta te park, noith coastal park with greatest Short Sand Beach north of M anzanita, at Cape F a l patronage last year was Ecola 71 con. This park also contains most with 134,460 visitors. Within easy driving range of of N eahkahnie m ountain, steeped Portland are a great variety of in legend of buried treasu re and state park areas ranging from offering the m o t o r i s t views surl-washed, sandy beaches to riv- stretched for miles along T illa mook and Clatsop beaches, A beach, agate caves, creeks, bath .Jr ¡ng, fishing and clam m ing are ail ♦ 1 Screened Sand, and Gravel found in the park, in addition to overnight camping privileges. N ear W heeler and Brighton is the Nehalem Sand Spit park w here clam ming at low tide is just about tops. An undeveloped park area at Cape Meares, just to J the east of the lighthouse, is a * Top Soil p m D irt lovely forested area containing an Drainage R ock unusual spruce tree some ten feet in diam eter. Phone 2341 N e w M o d e l R -1 3 0 S ta k e . Three Destined to some day be t i l » ' light duty stake models, 7 ’/ i and B'b- Leonard Real E state most unusual and outstanding o l foot bodies. G VW ratings, 4,200 to coastal sta te parks is Cape Look 8,600 lot. Famous ComfoVision cab. out, west of Tillamook. The divi sion is just startin g to develop this area with picnic and overnight camping facilities in the oiling. Cape Lookout is a point of land that extends some two miles into the sea and on its south side has We carry a CO M PLETE line of Gas Appliances, Wedgwood. a sheer drop of 700 feet. It is Tappan. O’Keefe & M erritt, and anticipated that most of the cape Caloric ranges - General w ater will I k * kept in its n atu ral sta te heaters Servel R efrigerators — with trails leading through the forested areas for the enjoym ent Coleman furnaces. of the public. Tanks for rent, sale or lease. Off the Sunset highway near Crescent City Phone 111 Necanicum junction is Saddle At Jet. 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