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South Aerial Guide Overview - Tour One
The City of Newport - Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area
The Yaquina Head Area is accessible from Lighthouse Drive situated off Highway 101 in the northern end of Newport. Lighthouse Drive heads west to the park entrance and then leads west out to the Interpretive Center, further moving onto the parking lot overseeing the Yaquina Head Lighthouse. The Interpretive Center is a very nice facility with a variety of interpretive displays covering different aspects of the Yaquina Head Area including its geological and natural history. Also covered in the center is information about the Yaquina Head Lighthouse and the wildlife found along the coastline and in the interior portions of the headland. The Interpretive Center has information displayed on the local wildlife seen recently and posts a daily schedule of interpretive events going on at the park facility. The Interpretive Center houses a gift store offering a variety of apparel merchandise, interpretive books and other media products on the Yaquina Head Area and on the Yaquina Head Lighthouse. A trail from the center leads south under a highway tunnel to the Ocean Bluff Observation Deck overlooking the southern end of the park. The deck area affords scenic views of the oncoming waves cascading along Agate Beach as well of distant visuals of the jetties at Yaquina Bay in Newport. At this Ocean Bluff Viewpoint, the Lighthouse Trail starts west along the cliffs and works its way out to the Cobble Beach and its Observation Deck, finally ending at the viewpoints surrounding the Yaquina Head Lighthouse. The Cobble Beach Deck offers the visitor the opportunity to observe Harbor Seals hauled out at Seal Island as well as the nesting seabirds on the offshore rocks raising their young chicks during spring and summer. The other trail accessible from the Ocean Bluff Viewpoint is the Quarry Cove Trail leading east along the headland crest and ending at the Quarry Cove Intertidal Area. The intertidal area features wheel chair accessible trails along the tide pools created by the BLM from a former on-site rock quarry.
Photo overlooking the Interpretive Center located at the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area featuring interpretive information about various geological and natural history aspects of the Yaquina Head Area as well as the local wildlife found within the headland.
Photo overlooking the southern end of the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area featuring the Quarry Cove tide pool area and intertidal zone, the Quarry Cove and Lighthouse nature trails along the cliff’s edge and the Interpretive Center and Gift Shop.
Photo looking west over the main intersection at Highway 101 and Lighthouse Drive providing the connection point for entering into the BLM Park Facilities situated at the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area and for gaining access to the Interpretive Center and the Yaquina Head Lighthouse from Lighthouse Drive.


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