Day Hiking: Oregon Coast
 New in 2007! This comprehensive hikers' guide from
The Mountaineers Books focuses on the beaches
and headlands of Oregon's 326-mile coastline.
Whether you're out for just a day or trekking the border-to-border Oregon Coast Trail, this guide can help you discover shifting sand dunes, primeval forests, rocky capes, secret beaches, formal gardens, offshore rocks covered with nesting seabirds, lookouts for spotting whales, and tidepools teeming with life.
Henderson has created another indispensable guide. Journeys for the adventuresome,
beachwalks for the day tripper —
she provides it all!
— Oregon Coast Magazine
 Oregon's hikeable coastline
- Details for 120 hikes easily accessible from U.S. Highway 101.
- Distance, difficulty, terrain descriptions for each hike.
- Tells when to go, what to take, and how to stay safe.
- Generously illustrated with maps and photos.
- Filled with nature notes to deepen and enrich your trip.
Why hike at the Oregon coast? If you like to hike, the proper question is, why not? The Oregon coast’s combination of accessibility and remoteness, its combination of walkable sandy beaches and hikeable forested headlands, is unique in the country. It’s incredibly varied. Tidepools, secluded beaches, old growth forests, shifting sand dunes: All are part of the Oregon coast hiking experience.
 And it’s accessible. From Portland and other population centers in western Oregon, the beach isn’t more than an hour or so by car. It rarely snows at the coast in winter, so its trails are hikeable year-round. Even in the stormy winter months there are always opportunities to sneak in a beach walk during a sun break or, with rain gear, a hike in the coastal forest during a drizzle.
The Oregon coast you glimpse from your car window traveling down U.S. Highway 101, with its outlet malls and sea-view motels and golf courses, is just one Oregon coast. But there’s another Oregon coast, a timeless realm of primeval forests and undulating sand dunes, secret beaches and towering headlands, elk and eagles and hermit crabs scuttling across tide-filled rock pools, of seafoam-scudded beaches. The Oregon coast has not been spared development, and more is coming. Fortunately there remain long and short stretches of wildness where the ocean’s roar drowns all other sounds, where the views haven’t changed much in thousands of years. That Oregon coast is the subject of this book.
 To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.
— Rachel Carson, Under the Sea Wind
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