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Yaquina Bay Lighthouse
Yaquina Bay Lighthouse is located three miles north of Newport on
highway 101. It is located 162 feet above sea level and it is
93 feet tall. It is the tallest lighthouse on the Oregon Coast.
Yaquina Bay Lighthouse was buildt in 1871 and was only operational
for three years, as Yaquina Head Lighthouse made it obsolete in
1874.
The Yaquina Bay Lighthouse is the only existing lighthouse in the Oregon in which
the living quarters are housed in the same building as the light itself.
It was listed by the National Register of Historic Places in 1970
and is owned by Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.
The lighthouse in open to the public. To get current visitors information,
please call (541) 574-3100. Entrance fee is $7 per vehicle, or use a
Oregon Pacific Coast Passport.
Below is text from Yaquina Bay Sign on US 101.
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 on March 7, 1778. At noon he named Cape Foulweather.
On account of the heavy weather he was compelled to stand out at 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 an interest that led to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 and the dispatch of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
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