![]() ![]() Bretherton, who assumed her duties in 1903. Apr.-Oct., $2 adults) also holds the distinction of having had Oregon’s first female lighthouse keeper, Mabel E. Built in 1870, the beacon stands 256 feet above sea level and can be seen some 23 nautical miles out at sea. An understory of salmonberry and bracken fern help evoke the look of a southeast Alaskan forest.Ītop the weathered headland is Oregon’s oldest, most westerly, and highest lighthouse in continuous use. Gales of 100-mph winds (record winds have been clocked at 184 mph) and horizontal sheets of rain have given some of the usually massive Sitka spruces the appearance of bonsai trees. The vegetation along the five-mile state park road down to the beach attests to the severity of winter storms in the area. With its exposed location, Cape Blanco really takes it on the chin from Pacific storms. It has been theorized that perhaps they were referring to fossilized shells on the front of the cliff. ![]() Somehow, the Spaniards who sailed past it in 1603 viewed the cape as having a blanco (white) color. Below, driftwood and 100-foot-long bull kelp on slivers of black-sand beach fan out from both sides of this earthy red bluff. From the vantage of Cape Blanco, dark mountains rise behind you and the eaves of the forest overhang the tidewater. 101, is Cape Blanco State Park, whose remoteness gives you the feeling of being at the edge of the continent-as indeed you are here, at the westernmost point in Oregon. Recommendations from the African Diasporaįour miles north of Port Orford, west of U.S.Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Arrow Icon Arrow icon.Little, Brown and Company Arrow Icon Arrow icon.Hachette Nashville Arrow Icon Arrow icon.Grand Central Publishing Arrow Icon Arrow icon. ![]()
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