Salishan Coastal Lodge

Park staff are ready at the Whale Watching Center to answer your questions and help you spot gray whales. Located along the seawall in scenic Depoe Bay, the center is a perfect spot for you watch whales as they blow, dive, spyhop and breach. Whale watching takes place year-round on the Oregon Coast! During the busiest weeks, thousands of gray whales migrate past our windows on their way to and from the waters of Alaska and Mexico. We keep watch all year long, you never know who might swim by. Many species including humpback whales, orcas, dolphins, porpoise and even blue whales have been spotted from our windows.

The ocean beach attracts tide pool enthusiasts and beach combers as well as surfers, sail boarders, crabbers, clam diggers, kite flyers, photographers, and artists and has also been the object of marine and geological research projects.

Founded in 1970, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology fosters creativity, intellectual inquiry and education. By helping others discover more about their core creative selves and their connections to nature, the Sitka Center works to fulfill its mission of expanding the relationships between art, nature and humanity. The Sitka Center offers workshops, residencies and community events, while maintaining a facility appropriate to its needs in harmony with its inspirational coastal environment near Cascade Head and the Salmon River estuary. Literally a center at the edge – where land meets sky, saltwater meets freshwater – the Sitka Center is a place where a diverse group of people and ideas converge, co-mingle and depart transformed.

Oregon’s spectacle of natural nirvana on display in every direction: An unfair cache of shoreline, forest, mountain, desert and natural fireworks. No place is that bounty more alive than where the vast edge of Oregon dances with the wide open sea. A meeting of parallels, each otherworldly to the other. Where centuries of mapping and exploring have only laid bare more mystery to unfold. Communication occurs differently here. Another language is needed. One of curiosity, study, sharing and consideration. Only then can we become fluent in the highest forms of expression: appreciation and understanding. Speak in a common vernacular of protection and preservation. This is Oregon’s other border, where there is no hard state line. Just an open invitation to come see, come learn, come hear. The coast is calling. OREGON COAST AQUARIUM.

The Jennifer Sears Glass Art Studio is a city-owned facility contracting with the Lincoln City Glass Center as Artists in Residence. The artists of the LCGC operate the facility, working with the public making blown glass and creating their own works of art. The primary artists are Kelly Howard and Jon Myers. Lincoln City Glass Center is made up of the four owners including James Benson, Dan Millen, Jon Myers and Kelly Howard. The production and teaching staff includes: Kelly Howard, Jon Myers, Steve Hagan, Jolene Boyce, Daniel Hogan, Lion and Anjali Singh.

We invite you to visit the Yaquina Head Lighthouse, where these questions and more will be answered. You might tour this historic structure, or you might just stand and savor the majesty of Oregon’s tallest lighthouse. The 93 foot tower is located on a narrow point of land jutting due west nearly 1 mile into the Pacific Ocean north of Newport, at Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area. Winds and rain have buffeted this lighthouse since its beginning in 1872. It took approximately one year, and over 370,000 bricks to construct Oregon’s tallest lighthouse. The light has been active since Head Keeper Fayette Crosby walked up the 114 steps, to light the wicks on the evening of August 20, 1873. At that time the oil burning fixed white light was displayed from sunset to sunrise. Today, the fully automated first order Fresnel lens runs on commercial power and flashes its unique pattern of 2 seconds on, 2 seconds off, 2 seconds on, 14 seconds off, 24 hours a day. The oil burning wicks have been replaced with a 1000 watt globe. The nightly vigil of watching the light is gone as are the resident keepers and their quarters, but the staff of the Bureau of Land Management, who are now responsible for the tower, would love to guide you through the lighthouse with tales of yesteryear.

Come visit Lincoln City Outlets located on the beautiful Oregon Coast in Lincoln City. We have over 50 iconic brands available for your shopping experience. Be sure to visit customer service for your free coupon book and save even more.