Cool and Unusual Things to Do in Cannon Beach - Atlas Obscura

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Cannon Beach, Oregon

Haystack Rock

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Cannon Beach, Oregon

Crescent Beach

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

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Seaside, Oregon

Tillamook Rock Lighthouse Columbarium

Lighthouse-cum-columbarium where "Nor'easters" and grandma go to die.

4 miles from Cannon Beach

Nehalem, Oregon

Neahkahnie Mountain

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

10 miles from Cannon Beach

Camp 18 Restaurant

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

16 miles from Cannon Beach

Seaside, Oregon

Elsie Cemetery

This small, rural pioneer cemetery is full of interesting grave markers.

18 miles from Cannon Beach

Warrenton, Oregon

The Wreck of the Peter Iredale

100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide.

19 miles from Cannon Beach

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Summer Radio Road-Trip

Follow along on our 2,200-mile adventure with NPR's 'All Things Considered.'

Upper Hoh Road, Olympic National Park, Oregon.

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