by Danielle Denham | Dec 8, 2020 | Adventures, Featured, Interesting, News, Oregon Coast, Things To Do
The weekend of December 13th-15th is set to bring the highest waves of the year to Coastal Oregon and Washington, with some places expecting 9-10 ft. high tides and 14-20 ft. ocean swells. While incredibly beautiful to watch, extreme caution should be exercised while...
by Danielle Denham | Aug 10, 2020 | Adventures, Beaches, Family Fun, Featured, History, Interesting, Oregon Coast, Photography, Photos, Things To Do
On October 25, 1906, the sailing vessel Peter Iredale was bound from Salina Cruz, Mexico to Portland, Oregon when she ran into trouble trying to enter the mouth of the Columbia River in thick mist and a rising tide. Heavy winds drove the ship aground near Fort...
by Danielle Denham | Feb 4, 2020 | Adventures, Featured, Interesting, News, Oregon Coast, Things To Do
The weekend of February 8th-10th is set to bring some of the highest waves of the year to Coastal Oregon. So just what is a "King Tide"? According to the Oregon King Tides Photo Initiative, "In Oregon, we are using the term ‘king tides’ to refer to the highest winter...
by Danielle Denham | Jan 5, 2020 | Architecture, Conservation, Education, History, News, Photography, Photos, Stories
I don't know when or why this obsession first came about. If I try to trace it back, maybe it was my first glimpse of Lower Eight Mile School, sitting alone and desolate in a field somewhere west of The Dalles. One Room Schoolhouses are Important Oregon History...
by Tyler James | Oct 19, 2017 | Featured, Stories, Western Oregon
From a room stacked with the unclaimed remains in canisters of patients through the 1970s to the hospital's closed and crumbling corridors, this old abandoned insane asylum in Oregon is downright creepy. The Oregon State Hospital, formerly known as the Oregon State...
