Cape Perpetua Scenic Area Photo Gallery by Ruth Moorhead at pbase.com

Cape Perpetua Scenic Area

Volunteering as Information Center hosts at the Devil's Churn at Cape Perpetua, along Hwy. 101 at about the middle of the Oregon coastline, we got to see the Cape in a variety of ways. The main habitats here are Sitka spruce forest and rocky (at the Cape) coastline, which puts on quite a show if the waves are high. The Cape Perpetua Scenic Area is part of the Siuslaw (say sigh-YOU-sla) National Forest, which is the only one on the west coast of the 48 lower states to touch the Pacific Ocean--which is why it found its way into the Oregon coastal parks gallery. It's not a state park, but it is a park with coastal features.

Western Hemlocks!
The Giant Sitka Spruce
			The Spouting Horn

	Tall, Straight Young Spruces
Sword Fern
Mme. Spider's Work, Wet		Five-finger Fern

Evergreen Huckleberry
			Shore Pines, Cape Perpetua	Salal

	Devil's Churn, with "Sea Milk"	Sitka Spruce Stands Watch
		Gull Bathing	Salal, Gaultheria shallon










	Spouting Horn...Plus an Extra
	Leathery Polypody, Polypodium scouleri			An Erodium, or Crane's Bill

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