Oregon Coast ~ Heceta Head Lighthouse

The Heceta Head is one of the most iconic lighthouse views along the Oregon Coast. If you’re traveling from Eugene to Florence, THIS is the view that assures a visitor that ‘you’ve arrived’ and will soon be feeling the sand between your toes. The entrance to Devil’s Elbow (i.e. Heceta Head beach) is the second tunnel on the journey along HWY 126. Once you get through the tunnel (and after honking your horn a few times!) you’ll see an immediate entrance to this Oregon Coast location on your left.

This was the beach that I walked on in my youth. I spent years trekking all over beach, the trails, the lighthouse, and the near-by Hobbit Beach finding agates and checking out the tide pools at low tide.

Despite my long-standing realtionship with this particular wedge of the Oregon Coast, I’d never actually captured a sunrise view of this Oregon Beach. But this year, from an empty pullout just up the highway, we caught an amazing rainbow of a morning of Heceta Head Lighthouse.

Check out the Heceta Head Lighthouse at dawn in this capture . . .

In my youth, I remember my long-pasted grandfather painting this lighthouse decades ago from a perch somewhere near Heceta Head Bed & Breakfast (pictured and glowing below and to the right).

Not to be surpassed, the views just kept coming on this particular morning. To our left, we caught sight of the moon rising along the horizon . . .

On mornings like this, it amazes me that even after a lifetime of looking at Heceta Head Lighthouse and playing on her beaches, I had yet to see her in all her glory. But on this morning . . . I saw it all:)

If you’re spending the night in Florence, Oregon, be sure to make it to the beach before the sun rises for these views.

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