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On The Road – frosty – 3rd Annual National Park/COVID Challenge – Oregon – US 101 Pacific Coast Highway

by WaterGirl|  March 27, 20245:00 am| 15 Comments

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This post is a combination of some of the sights in Northern California as well as the southern Oregon Coast. The first thing that stood out to me was the tsunami warning signs. They were probably posted after the 2011 Fukushima earthquake in Japan (although I didn’t look it up). I thought Oregon’s were a little more dramatic with the stick figure running for the hills. Every time the road descends there’s an “Entering” sign and when it climbs there’s a “Leaving” sign. There are so many dips in Oregon I thought they should just call the whole coast a hazard. If you’re not caught in the tsunami you’ll be hit by the traffic escaping it!

We stopped at a couple of overlooks when we got to Oregon, where we were camping at Humbug Mountain State Park and Beverly Beach State Park. Very scenic!

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California tsunami warning

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Oregon tsunami warning

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Port Orford, looking south to Humbug Mountain

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Humbug Mountain State Park

The beach at Humbug Mountain. This was a short walk from our campsite.

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Devil’s Punchbowl, just north of Beverly Beach

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Bottom of Devil’s Punchbowl, walkable from the beach

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Devil’s Punchbowl in the middle distance, taken from Cape Foulweather, named by Captain Cook in 1778. The curving lines of rocks are ring dikes created by lava invading cracks in the bedrock 15 million years ago. All of these headlands and the offshore “seastacks” are basalt, harder and resistant to erosion, which flowed from 300 miles inland.

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      Snarlymon

      March 27, 2024 at 6:24 am

      Definitely on my bucket list. PCH in California is one of my favorite places but I’d love to see more up north.

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      eclare

      March 27, 2024 at 6:26 am

      Those people in the first Devil’s Punchbowl photo really give some perspective!

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      There go two miscreants

      March 27, 2024 at 7:19 am

      @eclare: Your comment made me scroll back up to look! I missed them the first time — the first picture of the Punchbowl had me thinking it was much smaller.

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      eclare

      March 27, 2024 at 7:22 am

      @There go two miscreants:

      Oops!  I should have written second photo.  Yeah I thought it looked much smaller too.

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      OzarkHillbilly

      March 27, 2024 at 7:43 am

      Port Orford, looking south to Humbug Mountain

      Wow. They named a mountain just for me. I’m gonna have to pay it a visit.

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      Albatrossity

      March 27, 2024 at 8:12 am

      Very nice shots of a nice part of the country!

      Did you learn why they named it Humbug? That might be an interesting story!

      And hopefully folks are heeding WaterGirl’s words from Monday and sending in their On The Road pics and commentary. This is a great part of Balloon Juice, and I look forward to it every morning!

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      Xavier

      March 27, 2024 at 8:40 am

      IMO there are three places in the US that are head and shoulder above the rest: the Maine coast, the Oregon coast, and southern Utah.

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      Chris T.

      March 27, 2024 at 9:39 am

      Coastal Oregon is beautiful, but actually living there seems a bit, well, brutal to me: much of it is so remote (for good reasons) and both wild weather and tsunami—is this word its own plural?—can be so damaging.

      It’s still a great vacation / holiday trip though!

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      frosty

      March 27, 2024 at 10:49 am

      @Albatrossity: I agree, I hope WG is getting some OTR submissions. i have two more from this trip, then there’s 2023 I could post. I don’t want OTR to be just my pix! And yours. I like to see all the others too.

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      stinger

      March 27, 2024 at 11:27 am

      Same here, about the people showing the relative size. Great travelogue, thanks!

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      StringOnAStick

      March 27, 2024 at 11:54 am

      I’ve seen waves raging inside the Devil’s Punchbowl at high tide, so timing is everything!

      The Oregon coast is so scenic, so much in the way of dramatic rocks and sea stacks.  Lots of nice lighthouses too, because of all those rocks.  I’ll try to put together a post on some of the lighthouses.

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      Dan B

      March 27, 2024 at 12:41 pm

      The tsunami warning signs have been in place long before Fukushima.  I don’t remember how long.  The sad thing is that many roads may be impassable so the warnings may not be effective.

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      Sister Golden Bear

      March 27, 2024 at 1:39 pm

      The Oregon coast is amazingly beautiful. FYI, the tsunami warning signs have been there since at least 2006, when I drove it.

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      JustRuss

      March 27, 2024 at 3:49 pm

      We have a friend who grew up about 200 yards from the Punchbowl.  Her family still owns the house, we’ve rented it a few times, one of my favorite places.

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      way2blue

      March 27, 2024 at 6:02 pm

      And just for fun, a M5.7 earthquake offshore Port Orford today.  Weakly felt onshore to be sure…

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