Cape Meares News

Storm season on the coast is in full swing, and that means serious extra care for safety should be the high priority as you head to check out the oceanic madness.

Conditions for Rockaway Beach, OR at 1:11 pm PST Current Conditions: Light Rain, 57 F Forecast: Mon - Rain/Wind. High: 61 Low: 47 Tue - Rain/Wind. High: 52 Low: 40 Full Forecast at Yahoo! Weather Umpqua River Lighthouse Our lighthouse tour has included the Tillamook Head, Cape Meares, Yaquina Head, Yaquina Bay and Heceta Head lighthouses.

The lens inside the Cape Blanco lighthouse, built in Paris in 1935 by Henry LePaute and still in use.

A famous feature along the Three Capes Loop is the Cape Meares lighthouse. Four villages, three capes, one lighthouse, numerous oddball attractions and 25 miles of nearly hidden beaches: this is the Three Capes Loop of the north Oregon coast.

As the majority of the Oregon coast pulls out of the dark and out from beneath the downed branches, this week is back to normal for many, and just another week for many more on the central coast who really didn't receive much grief from the major tempest.

Cape Meares Lighthouse is short on stature but long on style. Cape Meares is the northern anchor point for one of the most scenic detours on the Oregon coast, the Three Capes Scenic Drive off U.S. 101 in Tillamook County.

They are the stuff legends are made of, and often ghost stories appear through these lore.

The worst of the storm set to hit the Oregon coast hasn't even arrived yet, but already power is out in various parts of the Oregon coast, wind gusts have caused sizable damage, and flooding is creating problems.