Heceta Head Lighthouse Trail

Half a mile uphill to the light station, then a trail on around the headland to the keeper’s house.

Heceta Head State Scenic Viewpoint

Sweet Creek Falls Trail

Eleven waterfalls in a Coast Range canyon, much of it seen from boardwalk and catwalk above the creek.

Access advisory

Sweet Creek Road, Siuslaw National Forest

Kentucky Falls Trail

Upper and Lower Kentucky Falls on one wooded walk in the Coast Range, best after rain.

Siuslaw National Forest, near Mapleton

Amanda's Trail #1386

A steep historic descent from the top of the cape to a grotto and a concrete statue.

Cape Perpetua

Whispering Spruce Trail

A quarter-mile loop to the stone West Shelter, with a hundred miles of coastline in view.

Cape Perpetua summit, Whispering Spruce Trailhead

Cummins Creek Loop

Old-growth spruce and a ridge above the sea, south of Yachats.

Cummins Creek Wilderness

Rock Creek Wilderness

Roadless spruce and alder. No maintained trails; the walking is bushwhacking.

Highway 101 between Yachats and Florence

Drift Creek Wilderness

Valley-bottom old growth along Drift Creek, reached by steep and faint routes.

Horse Creek North Trailhead, east of Waldport

Honeyman Dunes

Climb the sand from the campground for the long view south over Cleawox.

Honeyman State Park