Tom Schweich  

Junction: Washington Highway 20

Intersection: Race Street, to Mount Angeles Road and Hurricane Ridge Road

Port Angeles

Port of Astoria

US Highway 101 circles around and climbs toward the Astoria-Megler Bridge without actually entering the town of Astoria.

Seaside

Cannon Beach

Haystack Rock

Composed of basalt, Haystack Rock was formed by lava flows emanating from the Grand Ronde Mountains 10 to 17 million years ago.

Nehalem

Garibaldi

Tillamook

Hebo

Yaquina Head

Newport

Yaquina Bay Lighthouse

OREGON HISTORY

YAQUINA BAY

The old Yaquina Bay lighthouse established in 1871 is the earliest aid to navigation, standing within the range of the first recorded landfall made from a ship to the shores of the Pacific Northwest. Captain James Cook made this landfall in March 7, 1778 at noon He named Cape Foul-Weather. On account of the heavy weather he was compelled to stand out to sea at night and only approach the land in the afternoon so that he was unable to find any harbor along the Oregon coast. News of Cook's voyage to the Pacific Northwest stimulated the American interests in this region and aroused in Thomas Jefferson and interest that led to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the dispatch of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Yaquina Bay

Yaquina Bay Bridge

Seal Rock State Wayside

Seal Rocks, view to the north.	Seal Rocks, view to the south.	Seal Rock, a basalt flow resting on Pliocene beach deposits.

Alsea Bay Bridge

Alsea Bay Historic Interpretive Center

Waldport

Junction: Oregon Highway 34 “Northeast Alsea Highway”

Yachats

Luna Sea Restaurant, Yachats, Oregon (2009).

Cape Perpetua

Devil's Churn Observation Site

Junction: Forest Road 5553, to campground and top of Cape Petpetua.

Cape Perpetua Interpretive Center

Cape Cove and Captain Cook Trailhead

Heceta Head Lighthouse

Florence

Reedsport

Umpqua Lighthouse State Park

The hill is pretty steep at this end of Newmark St. If I had a big rig, I would use a more gentle route, to be found either to the north or the south.

Coos Bay

Bandon

Face Rock	Location code for use in case of emergency

Cranberries along Croft Lake Road.

New River is a dynamic, ever-changing system influenced by biological, climatological, geo-physical, and fluvial processes. The river and adjacent lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are in a special management category known as the New River Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC). The New River ACEC is managed to maintain biodiversity and quality habitats for native communities of plants, birds, animals, and fish. It also provides protection to cultural sites and affords educational, interpretive, and recreational opportunities to the visiting public in a manner consistent with the primary goals of protecting natural and cultural resources.

BLM’s vision of the New River area includes protecting or enhancing habitats for a diversity of wildlife and plant species. Varied ecosystems such as meadows, forests, wetlands, coastal lakes, open sand dunes, and the New River estuary will continue to support this biodiversity. This includes a more stable meandering river with greater riparian vegetation. BLM also envisions a visiting public that will appreciate and enjoy the varied ecosystems protected at New River in a way that will not degrade the naturalness of the setting or the quality of the visitor experience. BLM will manage the ACEC primarily for non-motorized public use that is compatible with the semi-primitive natural setting evident throughout most of the area.

In 1983, BLM designated 686 acres of federal lands along New River as an Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) to protect this unique natural area. In 1989, a land acquisition plan was completed, and over the next eight years, BLM acquired an additional 670 acres of private lands from willing sellers, bringing the current total land base of the ACEC to 1,356 acres.

The primary resource values for the New River ACEC include:

• River area and uplands contain important habitat for the American and Arctic Peregrine Falcon, Bald Eagle, Aleutian Canada Goose, and Western Snowy Plover – all federally listed species.
• Botanical species habitat supported in the New River area include silvery phacelia, western bog lily, pink sand-verbena – all federally proposed or candidate species.
• Plant Communities – Includes natural meadows, wetlands, sand dunes, and other habitat types supporting many unique plant species.
• Wildlife Habitat – Upland areas provide supporting habitat types and act as a buffer which supports the integrity of the river habitat areas.
• Historic/Cultural – Numerous, extensive prehistoric camps and villages border the river.”

Langlois

Port Orford

Gold Beach

Brookings

Crescent City

Orick

Trinidad

Arcata

Eureka

Loleta

Alton

Scotia

Dyerville (Site)

Leggett

Laytonville

Willits

Calpella

Cloverdale

Healdsburg

Along Mill Creek Road is a Wakabayashi et al. (2010) sample locality for a high-grade metamorphic block of Franciscan Formation.

Terra Linda

Mill Valley

San Francisco

San Jose

• US Interstate 280, west through San Jose and then north to San Francisco.
• US Interstate 680, east and north through San Jose to Concord to US I-80 at Cordelia Junction.

Gilroy

• California Highway 129, west along the Pajaro River, through the Pajaro Valley, and the town of Pajaro, to California Highway 1.
• San Juan Highway, south through the San Juan Valley to San Juan Bautista.

Salinas

• Alta Street
• Old Stage Road, vearing north of the highway and east of Salinas, eventually reaching San Juan Bautista.

Gonzales

Soledad

California Highway 146 goes east to Pinnacles National Monument.

Greenfield

Jolon Road roughly parallels US Highway 101 from near King City through the countryside and back to US Highway 101 near Bradley.

King City

• California Highway 198, east to Coalinga, across the San Joaquin Valley and into the Sierra Nevada.
• Lockwood San Lucas Road, west, across the Salinas River, then southwest through the hills to Lockwood.

Also known as "Jolon Road," makes a nice alternative to US Highway 101 if you want to get off the highway for a bit. Also, it is the way to Mission San Antonio de Padua.

Bradley

McKay

San Miguel

Paso Robles

The magnitude 6.5 temblor ruptured a hot springs aquifer and as much as 1,000 gallons per minute of sulfurous water is pouring out of the ground at the City Hall parking lot.

The rupture was caused by the quake because it started the same day. It first appeared as a steaming spring about 4 inches high and 24 inches in diameter in the Paso Robles City Hall Parking lot (P. Rafferty, pers. comm.).

Atascadero

Santa Margarita

Cuesta Pass

San Luis Obispo

View of San Luis Obispo from Bishop's Peak

The City of San Luis Obispo serves as the commercial and cultural hub of California’s Central Coast, as well as being the county seat of San Luis Obispo County. One of California’s oldest communities, the city was was first incorporated in 1856. With a population of 44,000, the City is located eight miles from the Pacific Ocean and is midway between San Francisco and Los Angeles at the junction of Highway 101 and scenic Highway 1. A well-known state university and my alma mater, California Polytechnic State University, is located on the north edge of town.

Pismo Beach

• California Highway 166, west to Guadalupe.
• California Highway 176, southeast along the Sisquoc River, and then through Foxen Canyon, on the way to Los Olivos.

Santa Maria

Las Cruces

Follmi et al. (2005) examined phosphogenesis and organic carbon preservation in the Monterey Formation to revisit the Monterey hypothesis that increased carbon deposition reduced atmospheric carbon and led to cooling of the Earth's climate. Follmi et al. (2005) reject the hypothesis because the rate of carbon deposition was quite modest, among other reasons.

Santa Barbara

Ventura

Warrick and Barnard (2012) studied sedimentation at the mouths of the San Lorenzo and Santa Clara Rivers after substantial flood events. They found that the amount of sand delivered to the littoral cells was substantially different between the two rivers.

Oxnard