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Local Attractions

Fort Clatsop National Memorial - This is the site where the 33 member Lewis and Clark Expedition wintered from December 7, 1805, until March 23, 1806. The facility includes the reconstructed fort, a visitor center/museum, historical exhibits, canoe landing, spring and picnic area joined by trails through the wetlands and rainforest (young Sitka spruce and western hemlock) of the park. During the summer months, living history demonstrations depict fort activities.

Goonies House - The Goonies is a favorite movie from the 80s and many of its scenes were filmed in and around Astoria. We see many fans of the film visiting our community each week, some making the journey just to see the “goondocks” themselves and others adding it on to a trip to the Northwest or Astoria.

Astor Column - In a wooded park and towering above Astoria, Oregon’s highest hill, the Astoria Column presents a spectacular view of the city and surrounding rivers, bay, forest, mountains and Pacific Ocean. The first words of most visitors are, “Oh, Wow!” The Astoria Column commemorates the westward sweep of discovery and migration. Built in 1926, it is 125 feet high and has 164 steps winding to the top.

Liberty Theater - The Liberty Theater in downtown Astoria, Oregon, is one of the best examples of the 1920s vaudeville-motion picture palace in the Pacific Northwest. Liberty Restoration, Inc., a private, non-profit organization is restoring this magnificent structure to its original elegance and equipping it to be a state-of-the-art performing arts center. Our institutional partners are Portland State University and Clatsop Community College.

Fort Astoria - A small park with partial replica is located at the intersection of 15th and Exchange streets, where John Jacob Astor’s fur traders originally constructed their fort. A mural recreates the vista from the Fort in 1813 as a backdrop to the recreated stockade building on the Fort Astoria Park property.

Columbia River Maritime Museum - Explore marine transportation from the days of dugout canoes, through the age of sail, to the present. Watch a dramatic 12-minute film introducing the history of life and commerce on the Columbia River and including the dangerous work of the Bar and River Pilots. Walk the bridge of a World War II warship, marvel at the 44-foot motor lifeboat plowing through a wave in a rescue mission. Participate in four interactive and hands-on exhibits, including taking the helm in a tugboat wheelhouse. You can board the Lightship Columbia, a National Historic Landmark, that once guided ships to safety at the mouth of the Columbia River.

This is a museum of national distinction, designated the official Oregon State Maritime Museum in recognition of its quality, and recently expanded and improved in a $6 million renovations

Flavel House Museum - This historic 1885 Queen Anne Style Victorian Home and its period furnishings enable visitors to imagine what life was like in Astoria at the turn of the last century. Its decorative exterior, with hipped roof, balconies and verandas and its three-story octagon tower, has been restored to original form and the mansion’s large rooms with their elegant woodwork are accented by furnishings and decorations of a century ago.

Fort Stevens State Park- The original fort was constructed during the Civil War. Visitors can learn its history at the Museum and explore abandoned gun batteries. A large and lovely state park with picnic facilities, nature trails, miles and miles of Oregon beaches, lakes, boating, camping, swimming and more than nine miles of paved bicycle paths. The campground is open year-around with over 600 campsites for campers, recreational vehicles and tents. Visitors can view the remains of a shipwreck at Peter Iredale beach and watch oceangoing ships navigate the bar from the viewing platform at the South Jetty.

Heritage Museum - Features permanent exhibits interpreting Clatsop County’s history, including natural history, geology, Native American artifacts, early immigrants and settlers of the region, and important nautical events. The building contains over 10,000 cataloged historic photographs.

Upper Town Firefighters Museum - Houses an extensive collection of firefighting equipment dating from 1877 to 1963. On display are hand-pulled, horse drawn and motorized vehicles, fire fighting equipment, photos and memorabilia. Astoria’s history with disastrous fires is told in photographs and with artifacts. Upper town Firefighters Museum was built in 1896 to serve as part of the new North Pacific Brewery. In 1928 the site was rebuilt by the City of Astoria for service as Upper town Fire station #2.

Young's River Falls - Young's River Falls were discovered by a Lewis & Clark hunting party about six miles from Fort Clatsop and documented in the journals of Patrick Gass for March 1, 1806 : “our hunters discovered falls, which had about 60 feet of a perpendicular pitch”. The western fork of Young's River falls about 65 feet, and is surrounded by a beach, undeveloped picnic area and a swimming hole used by the locals in the summer. The falls can be viewed from the parking area, or reached by a brief hike down the trail.

Haystack Rock - Haystack Rock - a dedicated, protected Marine Garden - rises 235 feet out of the sand and the sea at the low tide line in Cannon Beach Oregon. Haystack Rock and the area around it are abundant with sea life. Care must be taken to avoid trampling this delicate life. The Rock is also home to many birds, including tufted puffins, gulls, and cormorants. Volunteer interpreters and protectors of the Rock and the life that it supports are on the beach during morning low tides during the summer.

Cape Disappointment - In 1848 a lighthouse was recommended to be located at Cape Disappointment in what was then the Oregon Territory. $53,000 was appropriated in 1852. After the lighthouse was designed, a first-order Fresnel lens was ordered. When the lens arrived it was found to be too large for the tower. Rebuilding the tower took an additional two years. The first lighthouse in the Pacific Northwest was finally lit in 1856. In addition to the light, the station was equipped with a 1600-pound bell powered by a striking mechanism. The keeper's residence was about a quarter mile away.

The lighthouse had several shortcomings. The fog bell was sometimes inaudible due to the roar of ocean waves. It was discontinued in 1881 and moved to West Point Light in Seattle, and eventually to Warrior Rock Light near Portland. Also, the light was not visible to ships approaching from the north. This problem was corrected by building a lighthouse at North Head, two miles from Cape Disappointment. The first-order lens was moved to North Head and a fourth-order lens installed at Cape Disappointment.

The lighthouse was electrified in 1937. In 1956, the Coast Guard intended to close the station, but retained the light when the Columbia River bar pilots protested. The light was automated in 1973. The red and white flashing light was deactivated in 2008. An observation deck has been built for the Coast Guard to monitor traffic and bar conditions. The grounds are open to the public through Cape Disappointment State Park.

Local Pub's & Micro Breweries

Wet Dog Cafe & Astoria Brewing Co - The Wet Dog Cafe was founded in 1995. The brewery was added in 1997 under the name Pacific Rim Brewery. The name of the Brewery was changed to Astoria Brewing Company in 2005 to commemorate Astoria’s First Brewing Company, which was established in 1872. The Wet Dog was named after…the original owner’s dog…he loved the water and was always WET.

Our Brew Master uses only the finest ingredients to create our exceptional beers. Each beer is handcrafted using a wide range of hops and grains, thus creating unique flavors. It takes approximately 2 weeks for grain, water, and hops to become our tasty brews. We keep our four-barrel system busy producing over 400 barrels annually. Our brewery is currently under construction increasing our capacity to an eight-barrel system to be ready and operating in 2008 allowing us to produce over 800 barrels a year.

The riverfront deck is open during the summer months through the fall, offering patrons a fantastic view of the Columbia River.

Fort George Brewery - Located at 15th and Duane Streets, Fort George Brewery is taking local brewing to a whole new level. In a way the brewery sits on sacred ground, this spot is where the first settlement on the West Coast was located.

The lead brewers in the project are Chris “Nimz” Nemlowill, the former brewer at Astoria’s Wet Dog, and John Harris of Bill’s Pub in Cannon Beach. They actually were both brewers at Bill’s for a short time where they started tossing around ideas of starting their own.

Mt St Helens - Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is 96 miles (154 km) south of Seattle and 53 miles (85 km) northeast of Portland, Oregon. Mount St. Helens takes its English name from the British diplomat Lord St Helens, a friend of explorer George Vancouver who made a survey of the area in the late 18th century. The volcano is located in the Cascade Range and is part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, a segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire that includes over 160 active volcanoes. This volcano is well known for its ash explosions and pyroclastic flows.

Mount St. Helens is most famous for its catastrophic eruption on May 18, 1980, at 8:32am PDT[1] which was the deadliest and most economically destructive volcanic event in the history of the United States. Fifty-seven people were killed; 250 homes, 47 bridges, 15 miles (24 km) of railways, and 185 miles (298 km) of highway were destroyed. The eruption caused a massive debris avalanche, reducing the elevation of the mountain's summit from 9,677 feet (2,950 m) to 8,365 feet (2,550 m) and replacing it with a 1 mile (1.6 km) wide horseshoe-shaped crater.[2] The debris avalanche was up to 0.7 cubic miles (2.9 km3) in volume. The Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument was created to preserve the volcano and allow for its aftermath to be scientifically studied.

As with most other volcanoes in the Cascade Range, Mount St. Helens is a large eruptive cone consisting of lava rock interlayered with ash, pumice, and other deposits. The mountain includes layers of basalt and andesite through which several domes of dacite lava have erupted. The largest of the dacite domes formed the previous summit, and off its northern flank sat the smaller Goat Rocks dome. Both were destroyed in the 1980 eruption.

Shaken by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, the north face of this tall symmetrical mountain collapsed in a massive rock debris avalanche. Nearly 230 square miles (600 km2) of forest was blown down or buried beneath volcanic deposits. At the same time a mushroom-shaped column of ash rose thousands of feet skyward and drifted downwind, turning day into night as dark, gray ash fell over eastern Washington and beyond. The eruption lasted 9 hours, but Mount St. Helens and the surrounding landscape were dramatically changed within moments.