If you want a rustic, realistic coastal trail experience near Fort Bragg (or want a more natural, realistic walk from Glass Beach), I highly recommend the near-social trail that extends north from Glass Beach along the bluff tops to the…
9 Best Day Hikes in Olympic National Park
Olympic National Park is definitely unique – sea stacks and tide pools give way to temperate rain forests, which melt into alpine valleys and steep-sided mountains. This is perfect environment for seaside strolls, forest hikes, waterfalls, and high-alpine hiking in…
Hiking Point Arena-Stornetta National Monument
If there is a more beautiful place on the California coast than Point Arena-Stornetta National Monument, I can’t imagine what it would look like. The trail through Point Arena-Stornetta takes day hikers through clifftop meadows of waving grasses and wildflowers…
Hiking the Clatsop Loop in Ecola State Park
The Clatsop Loop Trail in Ecola State Park, Oregon, is certainly a trail of diversity. Starting out are views of surfers on the nearby beach, with sea stacks a short distance away. Then the hike winds upward through a true…
Cape Kiwanda: Sand Dunes & Rock Formations
It’s crowded, it’s dangerous, it was cloudy, and it’s about as touristy as the Oregon Coast gets. But somehow I totally enjoyed visiting Cape Kiwanda along the Tree Capes Scenic Loop off of US-101 south of Tillamook, OR. Maybe it’s…
Cape Perpetua: Where the Volcanos Met the Ocean
If you’re going to visit just one beach in Oregon, I highly recommend it be Cape Perpetua. Why? Well, it’s already overrun, so one more visitor (or ten more visitors) won’t make much difference. Second, you get bragging rights to…
Floras Lake Beach – An Sand Beach with English Cliffs
The Southern Oregon Coastline isn’t all rocks and sea stacks. In fact, Floras Lake Beach is very much as sandy as the east coast. It’s also nearly empty of people, unlike the more northerly sand beaches. Still, it offers sights…
The Natural Bridges of Samuel H. Boardman
Perhaps one of the most scenic areas of the Oregon Coast (which is pretty nice anywhere you end up) is the Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor, just north of Brookings, and about 10 miles north of the California boarder. …
Sneak Peak: A Land of Volcanos and Oceans
So if anyone’s been wondering where I’ve been (or why I haven’t been) on social media over the last month, we just got back from a 3 week adventure to the Pacific Northwestern US! It was pretty amazing, filled with…
Pictures from Holden Beach – May 2016
So I just spent a week and a half at peaceful Holden Beach, North Carolina… We rented a house (review coming soon!), rode bikes, walked the beach