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From exploring tide pools teeming with life to witnessing Oregon's tallest lighthouse, there is something for every visitor at Yaquina Head. Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area extends out from the Oregon coast, one mile into the Pacific Ocean.
Standing 93 feet tall on the west westernmost point of the basalt headland, Oregon's tallest lighthouse has been a bright beacon of the night, guiding ships and their supplies along the west coast since the light first lit in 1873.
The Yaquina Head Light, also known early in its existence as the Cape Foulweather Lighthouse (though Cape Foul Weather is 4 miles to the north) is a lighthouse on the Oregon Coast of the United States, established in 1873. It is located in Lincoln County, near Newport at Yaquina Head.
We invite you to visit the Yaquina Head Lighthouse, where all of these experiences await you. You might tour this historic structure, or you might just stand and savor the sight of Oregon’s tallest lighthouse framed by the majesty that is the Central Oregon coast.
The historic Yaquina Head Lighthouse (1872) is Oregon's tallest, but just one in a string of lighthouses strategically planned along the Pacific Coast to allow mariners to sail the rocky coastline after dark.
While other lighthouses on the Oregon Coast feature small museums about the history of the area, the Yaquina Head Lighthouse offers a significantly sized interpretive center and natural area which shouldn’t be missed.
The Yaquina Head Lighthouse rises 162 feet above the ocean beach. The 93-foot tower of the lighthouse is the tallest on the Oregon Coast, and the light can be seen nineteen miles out to sea. The U.S. Lighthouse Board had long identified the Newport area as a location for a lighthouse to ensure that the coast had regularly spaced lights.
At ninety-three feet, Yaquina Head is the tallest tower on the Oregon coast and is a shorter sibling to Pigeon Point Lighthouse, California and Bodie Island Lighthouse, North Carolina, which were built at the same time. The tower’s light shines 162 feet above the ocean and can be seen nineteen miles out to sea.
The most striking attraction of the Central Oregon Coast, Yaquina Head Lighthouse sits within the boundaries of the 100-acre Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area (YHONA) two miles away from Newport. Oregon's tallest and oldest active lighthouse is positioned 162 feet above sea level on a basalt headland jutting about 1 mile out of the ocean ...
A silent and majestic sentinel, Yaquina Head Light Station stands watch over offshore fishing boats, surfers, and nesting sea birds at Yaquina Head, Oregon. The historic Yaquina Bay Lighthouse is believed to be the oldest building in Newport and is Oregon's last remaining wooden lighthouse.