This is part of our Oregon State Park challenge! Check out our progress here.

This is a park in two parts.

The first is foresty, woodsy, and great for a nice stroll or a picnic. It wasn’t mealtime when we came, but we did find a cache or two.

One of them had a hummingbird nest in its tree!

This is (oddly) one of the least well-maintained state parks we’ve visited. “Go pose on those picnic table ruins!”

For the other cache, we went over the river and through the woods…

The second part is the beachy, gravel-sandy, oceany part. You can tell when you’re close by the driftwood and bare feet.

I took it upon myself to climb this rock. What I didn’t think about was (a) I was wearing flip-flops, and (b) there were two short people that wouldn’t want me to go alone.

Will got the farthest up of the three of us, and I made him stop out of my nervousness.

Then we gave them a mission: to build a dam across the entire stream. They worked at it for about an hour.

It’s a lovely place. Stop by if you’re in the area!