Day, October through April (check website for summer hours) $4 adults, $2 children ages 6 to 17 Estimated touring time: 1 to 1.5 hours
Located in the building that was once the Clatsop County Jail (1914 through 1976) and featured in the opening scene of “The Goonies,” this museum attracts visitors from around the world every year. The official “Goonie Gallery” is located in an old jail cell, chock full of Goonies memorabilia.
Don’t miss: Quiet on the set please! Learn what it takes to make a major motion picture. You can actually film your own movie, choos- ing from three different sets. Re-enact famous scenes or just make something up. Don’t forget to visit the props department or the loca- tion scout’s area along the way. Gallery Three is where Post Produc- tion occurs – you’ll edit your film, readying it for release – in this case, to the Internet.
CANNON BEACH HISTORY CENTER AND MUSEUM 1387 S. Spruce St., Cannon Beach, (503) 436-9301,
www.cbhistory.org Open 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesdays through Mondays Free admission Estimated touring time: 30 minutes to 2 hours
The Center features temporary and permanent exhibits that will appeal to history fans, natural scientists and artists alike. Learn about the ge- ologic formation of Haystack Rock some 2,000 years ago or marvel at tide pool critters. Archival photos tell the town’s story from the time of the early indigenous inhabitants (the Tillamooks) to the present day.
Don’t miss: You’ll chuckle at film footage that shows a real 1940s family in their Cannon Beach home, “broadcast” on a vintage televi- sion set in black and white. Or take in a demonstration of what’s in- volved in de-rusting old cannons – like the two that were recently found and are being restored.
FORT STEVENS MILITARY MUSEUM 100 Ridge Road, Hammond, (503) 861-1671,
www.visitftstevens.com Open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily Free admission Estimated touring time: 2 hours (self-guided walking tour)
Fort Stevens was built in 1862 during the Civil War and remained op- erational until the end of World War II. Today, Fort Stevens is a 4,200- acre park. Inside, in the old war games building, there’s a Military Museum housing a stirring collection of photos and exhibits such as weapons, equipment, uniforms and more depicting periods in the Fort’s history. Put a quarter in a slot and watch how a disappearing rifle works. Outside, much of the park landscape is historic, dotted with eight concrete gun batteries and the remains of a large fortifica- tion which constituted a critical component of the nation’s defense for decades.
Don’t miss: Explore the different concrete batteries; they all had a specific role to play in the Fort’s defense – for example, the six 10- inch rifles on the West Battery were designed to penetrate the exterior armor of enemy ships. Incidentally, not one shot has ever been fired
during combat from Fort Stevens. While many of the Fort’s buildings were demolished, the hospital still stands (an estimated 50 men died of influenza there during WWI), as does the guardhouse, the post chapel and fire station. The old bakery, central power plant and laundry look ghostly, especially when the fog rolls in from the Pacific Ocean.
SEASIDE MUSEUM 1570 Necanicum Drive, Seaside, (503) 738-7065,
www.seasidemuseum.org Open 8 a.m. to noon Mondays through Saturdays, closed holidays $3 adults, $2 seniors, $1 students, free for children 6 and younger Estimated touring time: 1 hour
Historic offerings span more than 2,000 years, when archeological digs conducted by the Smithsonian Institution in the 1970s upturned artifacts dating from 700 B.C. There’s a worthwhile Native Ameri- can exhibit, and photographs from museum archives chronicle every- thing from logging operations to folks at work and play in this early destination spot – Oregon’s first seaside resort town.
Don’t miss: Take a few minutes to tour Butterfield Cottage, origi- nally built in 1893 and restored as a 1913 beach cottage and rooming house. There’s an exhibit with a diorama of the Salt Cairn, showing how the Corps of Discovery expedition retrieved salt from the ocean in the Seaside area to preserve food for their journey home.
FORT CLATSOP 92343 Fort Clatsop Road, Astoria, (503) 861-2471, ext. 214,
www.nps.gov/lewi/planyourvisit/fortclatsop.htm Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily (until 6 p.m. mid-June through Labor Day), closed Christmas
$3 adults (16 and older), free for children 15 and younger Estimated touring time: 1.5 to 2 hours, longer if you choose to hike the trail
Step back in time 200 years with a visit to a replica of the fort built by the Lewis and Clark Expedition. As the Corps of Discovery’s winter encampment, Fort Clatsop sheltered 33 people against the relentlessly wet coastal winter weather from December 1805 through much of March 1806. The Visitor Center features an exhibit hall, a theater showing the ori- entation film “A Clatsop Winter Tale” and a museum store. An inter- pretive center has a number of interactive exhibits.
Don’t miss: Kids will get a kick out of trying to pack a canoe with- out tipping it, going on a treasure hunt and finding out what the Corps ate during their rainy winter at Fort Clatsop. During December and March, trained volunteers help visitors spot migrating gray whales. Check out the display on shipwrecks, “The Graveyard of the Pacific.” In peak visitor season, rangers clad in period buckskins give demon- strations of things like muzzle loading and shooting, hide tanning and candle making.
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