One of the few locations we’ve traveled prior to now 12 months has been the bucolic Astoria, Oregon (learn half one on this story). With many outdoors points of interest, we managed to soundly go to the area with aspect journeys into Washington’s Long Beach Peninsula (our suggestions right here and right here).
Without additional ado or fanfare, listed here are extra recommendations on your personal street journey:
Hanthorn Cannery Museum (And Geocache)
Website: https://canneryworker.org/
A small, however fascinating, museum positioned on Pier 39 on the sting of downtown, the Hanthorn Cannery Museum pays tribute to the fish processing trade and the Bumble Bee Seafood Corporation (a significant employer through the city’s heyday). The self-guided museum is housed inside three industrial freezer rooms that had been as soon as packed stuffed with frozen tuna and now home outdated canning gear, picket gillnet boats, and life dimension banners of the ladies who as soon as manned the manufacturing strains. The Hanthorn Cannery Museum is open 9am-6pm each day and doesn’t cost admission (donations are appreciated and the small reward store sells new and used objects on the respect system). If you geocache, you’ll discover a container hidden in plain sight.
High Life Advenventurs Zip Line Tours
Website: https://highlife-adventures.com/
The guided course tour at High Life Adventures takes friends on an eight zipline journey over seasoned timber, ponds, and a seven-acre lake. While we haven’t skilled this vacation spot (as a result of COVID), we did pop over to have a look. We’re crossing fingers summer season climate and safer journey situations welcome us again for the total expertise, full with lunch or dinner and a beer on the High Life Zip N’Sip Restaurant within the lodge constructing (or on the picnic space close to a gaggle campfire).
Youngs River Falls
Website: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/oregon/youngs-river-falls
Less than ten miles from downtown Astoria, Young’s River Falls is an easy-to-find 50-foot waterfall on Youngs River. A brief stroll all the way down to the riverbank isn’t properly fitted to people with restricted mobility, strollers, or a proclivity to journey on their very own shoelaces (me), however the decrease vantage level brings you previous a small cave and to a rocky swimming seaside/picnic spot. We suspect this is perhaps a well-liked native swimming gap within the warmth of summer season (and when the water wasn’t gushing with springtime rain, as we skilled throughout our current go to).
Ship Out Fish and Chips
Website: None (92351 Lewis and Clark Rd.)
We found Ship Out Fish and Chips by means of a mix of likelihood and curiosity. The first “indoor” restaurant we’ve been to in almost a 12 months, patrons place their order from the outside meals truck and might dine both on the surface patio or within the lined greenhouse/eclectic reward store. Look for goldfish within the wishing fountain, tiny birds scouting for crumbs, and an assortment of playing cards and boardgames to move the time. We cut up an order of fish and chips and clam chowder and that was fantastic too.
Tapiola Park Playground
Website: https://www.astoriaparks.com/tapiola_park_.aspx
If you’ve gotten elementary-age youngsters, the Tapiola Park playground will win you severe parenting factors. A big picket playground is the primary attraction, however you’ll discover baseball fields, basketball courts, picnic shelters, restrooms, and a skate park. The playground is inside strolling distance of a Dairy Queen, if you happen to really feel like a candy deal with to spherical out the day.
Photo Credit: Astoria Parks Department
Where to Stay
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But Wait, There’s More!
Just throughout the long-lasting Astoria–Megler bridge and on the Washington aspect of the Columbia River, are two straightforward locations for households seeking to incorporate social research into your day.
Middle Village – Station Camp
Website: https://www.nps.gov/lewi/planyourvisit/stationcamp.htm
Maintained by the National Park Service, Middle Village – Station Camp is a self-guided strolling tour on what was as soon as an energetic dwelling and Columbia River buying and selling submit for the Chinook folks. Before the positioning was visited by Lewis and Clark on their well-known expidition, over ninety ships from Europe and New England are documented to have crossed the Columbia River Bar to commerce with Native Americans.
Fort Columbia Historical State Park
Website: https://parks.state.wa.us/506/Fort-Columbia
Fort Columbia Historical State Park is a 618-acre, day-use historic park positioned inside Lewis and Clark National and State Historical Park. Decommissioned in 1947, Fort Columbia was as soon as an energetic coastal protection web site (constructed between 1896 and 1903, renovated throughout World War II). While the interpretive middle is presently closed resulting from COVID, guests are in a position to stroll the park grounds, previous barracks, dormitories, a hospital, officers’ houses, artillery batteries, and two 6-inch, rapid-fire, World War II-era weapons (amongst six nonetheless in existence).
Happy Trails!