Coastal erosion is chewing away at one of the Northwest’s most popular recreation areas. It’s threatening the main campground and other amenities at Cape Disappointment State Park, which has the ...

Major projects at Cape Disappointment State Park are being postponed by a year. ILWACO, Wash. — Pacific County’s most popular state park will remain open this fall and winter after all. The planned ...

One of Washington’s most popular parks has 10 fewer campsites as the camping season begins. The sites at Cape Disappointment State Park were destroyed by a storm in mid-January. Park ranger Josh Bell ...

Cape Disappointment State Park gets its nonalluring name from an 18th-century English explorer who, sailing past what’s now Washington’s southwest tip at the mouth of the Columbia River, missed the ...

The breeze sings, the sea glistens, and treachery lies all around. I peek beyond a thicket of brush at what was long ago dubbed the Graveyard of the Pacific, a stretch of ocean that has struck fear ...

In 1788, British trader John Meares sailed along the Pacific Coast, searching – as so many European explorers did – for the mouth of a great river. He arrived at a promising spot, previously ...

A wooden bridge crosses a creek in the forest along the North Head Trail at Cape Disappointment State Park. Cape Disappointment is home to a fascinating variety of attractions, and one hike in the ...