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
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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. Hwys 101 and 199
M ountain park, favorite with
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