HUG POINT Viewpoint on Hwy #101 (EXPLORED-Thank you!)

            Cannon Beach, Oregon Coast

Hug Point State Recreation Area is a state park on the northern Oregon Coast in the US state of Oregon. The park is open to the public and is fee-free. Amenities at the park, which is 5 miles south of Cannon Beach along the US Route 101, include picnicking, fishing and a Pacific Ocean Beach. Hug Point, the cape for which it is named, lies in the park.

Late 19th century coaches, that used the beach as a highway "had to 'hug' this particular point even at low tide to get around it", hence the name Hug Point.

The 43-acre (17 ha) park has a large parking area, public restrooms, and a sloping walkway to the beach. Erosion has formed caves in sandstone cliffs along the headland's south side, which is also the site of a seasonal waterfall. The Oregon Coast Trail passes though the park along the beach.

Roadbed around the Head: 

The primitive roadbed was chipped into the head by unknown persons around the turn of the 20th century to facilitate access to Arch Cape, which at the time was accessible only by driving a horse-drawn or motorized vehicle on the beach. 

This sometimes necessitated driving directly into the surf—an inconvenience in a stagecoach or wagon, but a real hazard in motorcars, which were far easier to get stuck and were disabled and immobilized by relatively small waves.

A persistent rumor claims that the roadbed was made by a man whose brand-new Maxwell car got stuck and was submerged by the incoming tide in the 1920s; however, photographic evidence shows the road was there well before 1920, and Oregon popular historian Ralph Friedman interviewed a stage driver who remembered using it before World War I.
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Taken on: July 21, 2024

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