Pacific Pines State Park – state parks quest #18
Tiny Pacific Pines State Park offers something critical for recreation in Washington State: public access to the beach.
Tiny Pacific Pines State Park offers something critical for recreation in Washington State: public access to the beach.
Where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean, Cape Disappointment is a blend of stunning oceanfront scenery, atmospheric coastal forest, and millennia of history. Hike over the headlands, wander among wind-bent Sitka spruce, ponder centuries of human activity, or just settle down on a piece of driftwood and watch the sun sink below the watery horizon.
Salmon swimming in the trees? What, you think that’s not normal around here?
The promise of a sunny weekend enticed us to load the car and head to the mouth of the mighty Columbia River.