The survey found that Secret Beach, Gold Beach, Bandon State Natural Area and Agate Beach were considered some of the most ...

Coquille River Lighthouse under construction Sept. 6, 1896. Bandon Historical Society Museum Roger Straus, who first visited Bandon 25 years ago on his honeymoon, is also key to Schoeppner’s ...

I love this old picture of the Coquille River Lighthouse. A similar picture in Dow Beckham's book about Bandon reports that the lighthouse "had a booming fog signal trumpet serviced by a redwood ...

In 1857, crews erected a light at the mouth of the Umpqua River, and four years later it collapsed into the river. In 1896, the Coquille River Lighthouse was constructed on a jetty, but that didn ...

Here you’ll find a collection of the lighthouses we’ve visited around the USA. For more information, be sure to check out each lighthouse’s article, as most do have links.

The Heceta Head lighthouse north of Florence and the Coquille River lighthouse at Bandon are closed to visitors, but you can still get to the base to take in the sights on the Oregon Coast.

Of the nine original lighthouses on the Oregon coast, seven are open to the public and most are still active working lighthouses. The lighthouses are, starting from the north, Tillamook Rock, a ...

Put into commission in February 1896 on the north jetty of the Coquille River, at the edge of the Pacific Ocean, the now 120-year-old lighthouse guided mariners until 1939.

Coquille River Lighthouse, first lighted in 1896 and 40 feet tall, sits just north of Bandon on Oregon's South Coast and makes a good stop as part of a visit to Bullards Beach State Park.

Because we have been hearing so much about the foghorn in recent weeks, I decided to share the history of this aid to navigation, which dates back to 1896. I ...

Beverly Beach, nearly 7 miles north of Newport and one of the largest campgrounds in the state park network, and Bullards Beach, which boasts the Coquille River Lighthouse about 3 miles north of ...