Exploring Hidden Gems of Ft Stevens State Park Oregon – ExploreTraveler
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In this video, we’re visiting Ft Stevens State Park in Oregon and finding a shipwreck!
This state park is home to some amazing natural attractions, and the shipwreck is one of the highlights. If you’re visiting Oregon, be sure to visit Ft Stevens State Park and check out this amazing attraction!
00:00 Introduction & Ship wreak
02:56 The Bunkers
05:14 Wildlife Viewing Bunker
06:46 The Jetty
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Transcript:
so today I’m in the Northern Western tip of the state of Oregon at Fort Stevens State Park [Music] I’m hiking out towards the beach trying to find an old shipwreck sometimes it’s kind of a famous thing for this location so I’m trying to check it out I’m going to kind of show you as I walk up to it and give you a glimpse of what it looks like and before we go too much further I just want to thank everybody for watching our videos here on YouTube and possibly Facebook make sure to like share our content it helps you get around
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so I did a little research on Fort Stevens and it’s kind of one of the very few places outside of Alaska that even had any interaction with foreign forces at World War II it’s quite reinforced [Music] its waves look
honestly pretty big for Oregon I mean we’re not in Hawaii or anything
dad said there are some Riptides going on
thank you it’s definitely been here a while
I’d say it’s kind of a front piece but it’s kind of hard for me to tell
so this is the Shipwreck that’s left here at Fort Stevens there’s some actually there’s a couple piece spread out
like
moving down the beach here it’s just a beautiful walk I can see my people take their dogs out here
yeah it’s pretty nice okay so now I’m at another main point of interest it’s called battery Russell basically this is the old kind of artillery
location, where they could fire upon ships out of the ocean [Music], see
we wear very well abandoned
very thick I mean
dark in here I don’t think this goes any further [Music] mine is at one time Frozen concrete
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kind of a lonely place to be stationed back in the day foreign ER
curious [Music] do you know what else did you do this is where the cannon would have been held here and pictures of what we’ve got it’s a very very large probably a Howitzer is okay [Music] this guy rusted metal and concrete mix this is this place was definitely meant to last I mean look at these rooms they’re actually quite big some are small but
I actually lived here [Music] like definitely had the capability of doing so okay another one of those stairs that go back up
okay so I just came back out
inside the second cannon all right so we’re going towards obviously a wildlife viewing bunker we’re still at Fort Stevens this area is used protected habitat for waterfowl I think there’s some limited hunting allowed during a very specific season but it’s
so limited that I’m sure there’s a waterfowl during the breeding season anyway
this is obviously another part of the bunker system Fort Stevens had during its Heyday would have been the early 1900s
this area it’s kind of probably behind me but it opens up into the Columbia River
Sugar Pines that’s where I came from over there
swash Lake
and that is
all right so I’m out and it’s called the South jetty
it’s kind of what it looks like there’s a little weather station there
kind of the claim restoration work [Music] which they claim because I never know what they’re really up to
it’s just over here
a little lookout tower and climb up
usually
it’s a beautiful day it’s I mean it’s windy but here on the coast that’s normal but it’s uh just a rough takeaway
still, at Fort Stevens, this is uh March Park and I think it’s an example of a place where people can go to it’s not very crowded not consider this place but I would see you know a full handy now it’s accessible but it is uh there’s a couple area right so if you’ve got some
blocking capability you’re probably still doing a little bit I will bring a little chair where you can sit down because [Music] is like a lighthouse out there
so we’re at the South jetty going to try to see what other places we can find
if you look right here that is the entryway to the Columbia River they’ve got it blocked off with this restoration project.
