Tag archive for ‘Port Orford’

  • Discovery on the docks

    7/30/11 • (0)

    The Port of Port Orford is home to a commercial fishing fleet that lands more than 4 million pounds of live seafood each year. Visitors are welcome to watch the working dock in action. Built above the high-water mark, the Port Orford dock is one of the country’s few dolly docks. Industrial cranes lift boats …

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  • Highlights of Port Orford Jubilee

    6/25/11 • (0)

    Friday, July 1 9:30 a.m. Opening Ceremony, Driftwood Elementary School, 1202 Oregon St. Saturday, July 2 8 a.m. Glass float treasure hunt, float tags returned to business’ to collect prize, Battlerock and Buffington parks. 8 a.m. Geo-caching challenge, visitor center for instructions. Sunday, July 3 9 a.m. Saltwater Open Beach Golf. Tee off Hubbard Creek …

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  • Port Orford’s Dolly Dock

    4/30/10 • (0)

    By Gail Elber The small port at Port Orford has something you won’t find elsewhere in Oregon: a ‘dolly dock,” where boats are hoisted into and out of the water each day. Only six of these docks remain in the world, and only two are on the West Coast. (Los Angeles has the other one.) …

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  • Jurassic junket

    4/30/10 • (0)

    Dinosaurs still roam the South Coast in Oregon’s rain forest. Well, not real dinosaurs, but try telling that to your 4-year-old. Life-size replicas of dinosaurs that once prowled the earth can be seen near Arizona Beach, south of Port Orford, at the Prehistoric Gardens. The popular stop along U.S. Highway 101 is the creation of …

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