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Keeping watch on Axial Seamount
Three hundred miles off the Oregon Coast, an underwater volcano is stirring. Scientists are predicting Axial Seamount, located ...
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An uncertain future for Oregon kelp forests
When Alanna Kieffer talks about seaweed, it’s with a sense of stewardship, a deep care for the Oregon ...
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Vote for the Readers’ Choice Awards in February
Over the past few weeks, Coast Weekend readers have sent in thousands of nominations for the best of ...
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Sunrise, sunset, ship in the river
The annual Coast Weekend Photo Contest issue is here, and with it what I called on the cover ...
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A tree grew in Tillamook Bay
I remember it from the backseat window. The old, leaning tree between Garibaldi and Rockaway Beach, barely visible ...
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Nominations open for Readers’ Choice Awards
For a town of 10,000 people, Astoria has a remarkable roster of places to see and explore. There ...
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Cast a vote for readers’ best images
Between windstorms and rain squalls, even the shortest days of winter on this grand coast offer scenes that ...
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Gray whales on the rebound
Twice a year, the gray whales migrate, southbound to sheltered lagoons in the Sea of Cortez and then ...
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Enter this year’s Coast Weekend Photo Contest
One highlight of the past year for me has been the chance to wander the coast with a ...
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To live with earthquakes
To live on the Oregon Coast is to live with the possibility of earthquakes. Those familiar words, “Cascadia ...