Cape Meares and the area

Cape Meares Lighthouse is the shortest on the Oregon Coast, standing only 38 feet high, but since it is situated on a headland 217 feet above the Pacific Ocean, it doesn't need to be tall. Cape Meares if the farthest north of the three capes for which the Three Capes Loop is named. A local attraction is a strangely shape tree called the Octopus Tree. You can walk north from Cape Meares to a parking lot at the south end of the Bayocean spit. That itself is worth a walk. You won't find much if any traces of the resort community that was built here in the early part of the 20th century. It mostly got washed into the Pacific.

Across the bay are some delights for the tummy. Get fresh oysters in Bay City. Enjoy the famous Tillamook Cheese at the factory or a wider variety at the smaller Blue Heron French Cheese store a little to the south.