Neahkahnie Mountain coastal overlook
— — the long blue drop to the Pacific.
Not only on a wall.
“A 1,680-foot headland rising straight from the sea inside Oswald West State Park. The Highway 101 pullouts catch the long view south to Manzanita and Nehalem Bay. Tillamook stories and old Spanish-treasure legends both attach here. Wind comes off the water hard enough to lean into. From the studio.
Neahkahnie Mountain coastal overlook, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
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The place, in three passes.
Neahkahnie Mountain rises to 1,680 feet on the northern Oregon coast, inside Oswald West State Park in Tillamook County. The headland drops almost directly to the Pacific, making it the highest point on the northern Oregon coast and one of the most dramatic stretches of Highway 101. The summit trail begins from a small pullout about a mile south of the highway's high point and climbs roughly 900 feet over 1.5 miles through Sitka spruce and salal to an open ridge overlooking Manzanita and Nehalem Bay.
The headland faces open ocean with no shelter to the west, and the wind off the Pacific is steady enough that hikers on the ridge often lean into it. Pacific fog moves through in long banks; the summit clears and refills in the same afternoon. Bald eagles and turkey vultures use the updraft off the cliffs. Gray whales pass close to shore on their migration north in spring and south in late autumn, visible from the pullouts at the high point of Highway 101.
Two layered histories attach to the headland. The Nehalem-Tillamook peoples knew Neahkahnie as a place of spiritual weight, and the name itself is interpreted as the place of the supreme deity in their language. A second, persistent legend speaks of a Spanish or Manila galleon wrecking on the beach below in the late sixteenth or early seventeenth century, with beeswax cargo later recovered for over two centuries along the Nehalem spit — the so-called Beeswax Wreck, now associated with the 1693 loss of the Santo Cristo de Burgos.