Ecola State Park
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Ecola State Park
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 View of Haystack Rock from Ecola State Park |
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| location | Clatsop County in Oregon (USA) | |
| surface | 527 ha | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 56 ' N , 123 ° 58' W | |
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| administration | Oregon Parks and Recreation Dept. | |
The Ecola State Park is a State Park in Clatsop County in northwestern US state of Oregon . The 527 hectare park is located between Cannon Beach and Seaside . The park is part of the Lewis and Clark National Historic Park .
geography
The park extends 14 km along the Pacific coast . In the southern park area there are two sandy beaches, Crescent and Indian Beach , with a total of five kilometers in length with numerous tide pools , the northern section around the 366 m high Tillamook Head headland consists of rocky coast. The lighthouse Tillamook Rock is located on a rock about 1.6 km off the coast . The lighthouse was built in 1881 and was in operation until 1957. In the northeast, the park borders the 245 hectare Elmer Feldenheimer Forest Preserve , whose land was donated in 1978.
Flora and fauna
The area is wooded with a dense rainforest with old Sitka spruce and West American hemlocks . Elk and other deer live in the jungle . California sea lions and numerous species of sea birds live on the rocks off the coast of Ecola Point . In spring, the migration of gray whales is easy to watch from Tillamook Head .
history
On January 3, 1806, the members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in their winter quarters at Fort Clatsop received meat from a stranded whale as a gift from the Clatsop Indians , which offered a welcome change from the constant deer meat. On January 6th, Captain William Clark set out with twelve men to look for the stranded whale and to get more meat and oil for fuel. They reached the whale carcass not far from Tillamook Head. Clark named a stream Ecola Creek after "Ekoli", the Chinook word for whale. The whale had already been cannibalized by the Killmucks Indians, but the expedition was able to buy 150 kilograms of meat and a few liters of whale oil from them and returned to Fort Clatsop on January 10th.
In 1932, a group of citizens donated 91 hectares of land to build the state park. In 1935, Civilian Conservation Corps workers built many of the park's facilities. The warehouse for the workers was on the site of today's parking lot. During the Second World War, a radar station was built at Tillamook Head, the ruins of which can be reached on one of the hiking trails.
Tourist facilities
There is a fee to visit the park. The park has several picnic areas and sanitary facilities. The beaches are ideal for beach walks, the beach of Indian Beach is a Mecca for surfers. The park is crossed by nearly 8 miles of the Oregon Coast Trail, and there are also numerous hiking trails such as the Tillamook Head Trail . The Clatsop Loop Trail is a four kilometer long, partly steep circular route that leads through the jungle to the top of Tillamook Head. There are boards on it with information about nature and the history of the state park. There are primitive huts at Tillamook Head as overnight accommodation for hikers. Apart from these huts, there are no overnight accommodations in the park.
Ecola State Park in the movie
Many of the outdoor shots of the film The Goonies were shot on the grounds of the park in 1985, as well as the final scene of the film Dangerous Surf from 1991, parts of the film Kindergarten Cop and the parts of the film Twilight - Bis (s) zum, which are set on First Beach in La Push Dawn .
literature
Jan Bannan: Oregon State Parks: A complete Recreation Guide. Seattle, Mountaineer Books, 2nd Edition 2002, ISBN 978-0-89886-794-7
Web links
- Oregon State Parks: Ecola State Park
- Ecola State Park on the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lighthousefriends.com: Tillamook Rock, OR. Retrieved August 16, 2011 .
- ↑ BASELINE SOCIOECONOMIC PROFILES OF COASTAL COUNTIES IN THE WASHINGTON-OREGON PLANNING AREA, p. 172. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 16, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Ecola State Park, Cannon Beach, Oregon. Retrieved August 16, 2011 .
- ^ Interpretive Plan for the Nehalem Bay State Park Group, p. 70. Retrieved August 16, 2011 .
- ^ Ecola State Park on the Lewis and Clark Trail. Retrieved August 18, 2011 .
- ↑ State Parks larger then 100 acres that have been given to state of Oregon. Retrieved August 18, 2011 .
- ↑ NeahkahnieVisions' photos. Retrieved August 16, 2011 .
- ^ Lewis and Clark National Historical Park: Ecola State Park. Retrieved August 16, 2011 .
- ↑ Interpretive PLANFOR the Nehalem Bay State Park Group 69. Accessed 18 August 2011 .
- ^ Ecola State Park, beauty worth exploration. Retrieved August 16, 2011 .
- ↑ imdb: Twilight - Bite zum Dawn: Filmorte. Retrieved August 16, 2011 .
