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CAPE LOOKOUT, A NEW STATE PARK
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Top, left: .looking down and seaward from the brink
o this precipitous cliff S50 feet above the ocean afford
this view Wells cove on the north side of Cape Lookout.
Top, right: Fred Zimmerman, Capital Journal writer,
views the rain forest from the base of this centuries
old Sitka spruce near eight feet in diameter and towering
sbout 200 feet above the thicket that forms ground
cover. Lower, left: Mrs. Louise Maxwell views wreckage
of an army plane that crashed against the ridge of Cape
Lookout obscured by fog August 1, 1943. Out of a crew
of 10 there was but one survivor. Lower, right: Growth
in the rain forest covering the northern slope of Cape
Lookout never receives more than intermittent sunlight.
Fronds of aword ferns shown here reach a length of five
feet In this deeply shaded, humid environment.
Cap
Easy
e Lookout Park Now
Drive From Salem
By BEN MAXWELL
Lookout State park, 12, Since Jury 1,
miles southwest of Tillamook
and until this year difficult to
reach by car, is now easily
accessible at a distance of 8?
miles from Salem. Picnic fa
cilities are there now and a
large, over-night camping area
to in the making for next
year's usage.
Those who have visited
1,392-acre Cape Lookout park
and ascended the cape over an
easy, scenic trail leading
through a rain forest and
ultimately, at the top, to spec
tacular views are not hesitant
to say that this newly opened
area Is unequalled, by any
other ocean front Oregon park
for primitive, rugged gran
deur. The late S. H. Boardman,
former state superintendent of
parks, acquired the Cape
Lookout area from the United
States Lighthouse service after
long negotiations and passage
of a bill by congress enabling
the secretary of commerce to
make the conveyance to the
state highway commission.
CCC boys working under
Boardman's direction con
structed five and a half mile
trail from Jackson creek to
the extremity of the cape Ib
lona.an location called for
walking grades and a
wide trail through what may
well be Oregon's most perfect
rain forest.
Here Sitka spruce have a
diameter of seven and more
feet at the base and towers
hundreds of feet above a
thicket of prickly salmon
horrv roni- sslal. huckleber
ries and wax myrtle. Im this
humid environment so dense
tuut, hprfa that sunlicht is in
termittent grow great sword
ferns, many with fronds five
feet tn length. On moist banks
are smaller, fine leaved ferns
in great abundance.
1951, boys
from MacLaren School for
Boys at Woodburn have occu
pied a camp site at Jackson
creek and under airecuon 01
state park authorities re-worked
cape trails, stabilized dunes
on Netarts bay peninsula wttn
fence, grass and boom, com
pleted clearing the over-night
camping area and built fire
placea and tables for the pic
nic area. Their program it now
practically completed and T.
Vernon Merrick, acnooi 1Q-
imnistrative assistant, states
that after September the camp
will.be re-located in Zcola
state park where a comparable
project will be undertaken, (
At near mid-distance to the
tip of the cape the trail em
erges at an elevation of SCO
feet to afford a splendid vista
of mountains, beach and ocean
to Sand Lake and beyond to
distant capes. A little further
along the trail enters a region
so deeply shaded by wind
swept conifer of shrubby
proportions that no unoer-
growth survives.
Near this point scraps of
aluminum appear and soon the
hiker reaches a plaque erected
by the highway commission
two years ago to comeisorate
nine men who died here Au
gust 1, 1943, when their four
motored army plane crashed
during dense fog. Lt. Wilbur
Perei of New Orleans was a
sole survivor.
Presently the trail emerges
on the north side of the cape
where cliffs drop almost per
pendicularly 550 feet into a
sem-circular sea 'basin. Look
ing northward Three Arch
rocks are visible some nine
miles away.
At the tip of the cape (not
reached by this writer who
attained the northly vista men
tioned above) it is possible to
view Cape Madras, Cape Fal
con and under favorable con
ditions Tillamook Head 40
miles to the northward.
Here, in season and nesting
on rock shelves in the clifot
below,, are California luurres
In great numbers. Cormorants
are there, too, and an occa
sional merganser.
Soma xars ago as observer
So smooth
it leaves jott
breathless
HAMBURG (OATS
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near the tip of the cape noted
beach stones, agates and bits
of charcoal is a kitchen mid
den revealed where large
spruce tree 250 years or old
er hand uprooted. Found also
was a chert arrow head two
and a half Inches long. This
relic associated with the shell
seen in the ancient kitchen
midden posed a problem that
ha not yet been solved. It
appear unlikely that sborgi-
nes carried shell fish to dis
tantly from the sea and over
ueh difficult terrain for feast
ing. Nor is there reason for
supposing that the cape was
lifted from beach to its present
elevation m a recent geologic
period.
In addition to a pleasant
trail through a deep rain for
est, and spectacular view
points Cape Lookout state
park offers mystery for those
versed in anthropology and
geology.
Dog were first domesiicaied
in neolithic times.
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