Cape Lookout (Oregon)
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 Cape Lookout from the north; the spit of Netarts Spit in the middle of the picture on the left, the Netarts Bay behind |
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| Coordinates | 45 ° 20 ′ 20 ″ N , 124 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ W | |
| Waters 1 | Pacific Ocean | |
Cape Lookout is a rocky, high and steep headland on the Pacific coast in the northwest of the US state Oregon .
It is located in southwest Tillamook County , approximately 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Tillamook . The headland, like many other islands and headlands on the north coast of Oregon, consists of basalt that cooled down about 15 million years ago when it flowed into the ocean. It extends almost at right angles to the main coastline more than 2 km to the west into the sea, is about 900 m wide at its beginning and tapers to only about 300 m at its end, with a rather large (300 × 400 m) Bay halfway on its north side. Immediately north of the headland is Netarts Bay, a 2 km wide lagoon behind a 7 km long spit that still runs north , the Netarts Spit.
The almost completely forested headland, dominated by hemlocks and huge Sitka spruces , is part of Cape Lookout State Park , which also includes the Netarts Spit to the north and is itself part of the Siuslaw National Forest .
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A four-kilometer high - altitude path leads through the forest and occasionally directly along the cliff edge, which is more than 120 m high, to the tip of the headland, which is also about 120 m above sea level. The path through the Pacific cloud forest is not easy, often wet and slippery, and secured in the worst places by planks in the form of a stick dam . From the cape itself there is a broad view to the west of the Pacific, to the north of Cape Meares and Neahkahnie Mountain in Oswald West State Park and to the south of Cape Kiwanda and Cascade Head . This is also the best place - apart from a boat - to see the gray whales migrating from Baja California to the Bering Sea and back, as they have to go around the far-reaching headland. Up to 20,000 whales migrate from Alaska to Mexico each year , and on good days up to 30 can be seen drifting by the Cape in an hour.
The north coast of Cape Lookout above the Netarts Spit is a very popular place among hang-gliders and paragliders .
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Web links
- Oregon Parks and Recreation Department: Cape Lookout State Park , accessed February 5, 2013.
- Cape Lookout Hike , accessed February 5, 2013.
- Grant's Getaways: Cape Lookout Whale Hike (video) , accessed February 6, 2013.