Cannon Beach, Oregon - The Land of Better Living: Being, in Fact, a Truthful Exposition of As

The Land of Better Living: Being, in Fact, a Truthful Exposition of As

Remote enough to be restful, but not so remote as to be lonely, Cannon Beach is coming more and more to be the Mecca of those who in their vaca¬ tions love nature more than men. Realizing the inherent wonder of the place and the bright future which it holds as a vacation-land, Clatsop County is rapidly extending its road system more fully to tap Cannon Beach.

Cannon Beach is a series of stretches of glorious sands, backed by splen¬ did forests and broken by magnificent cliffs, with great black basalt crags rising from creaming breakers. Even its sands sing the love of life, for they have a peculiar quality which causes the shuffling walker to set up a droning music with his heels.

Here is a wild coastline, tapped with fine roads. Here are cottages and comforts bordering a strand so bizarre and yet so beautiful that many count it quite the acme of the Pacific beaches.

Minor Beaches

Clatsop County has 30 miles of ocean frontage. Seaside is the center city. Geographically and commercially, it is the pivot point of the Clatsop coast line. From Fort Stevens to Seaside is one long, sweeping beach, broken only by the mouth of the Necanicum River, immediately to the north of Sea¬ side itself.

Minor beach centers dot the coast from Fort Stevens south. There is Delaura Beach, with its picturesque sand dunes. There is Columbia Beach, with its camp grounds and grove, its glade and lake and incomparable Scotch Broom. Then Sunset Beach, with the Astoria Golf and Country Club links, and still farther south Del Rey Beach.

All of Clatsop's beaches present more than most coastline holiday resorts. The sands teem with husky razor clams. The rocks are black with rich mus¬ sels. Sea fishing can be enjoyed everywhere, in the surf, or from the rocks.

While the North Pacific beaches have long been summer resorts, the Clatsop beaches have rapidly taken on the tone of year-round watering places. The summer will always be the season of their greatest popularity, but more and more they are being favored as winter resorts as well.

This is due to their exceptionally mild winter climate. The mercury rarely falls to freezing on the Clatsop Coast. The healthfulness of the winter climate calls to many convalescents. Outdoor recreation is enjoyable there twelve months of the year. The golf links are always green and fresh and there is never a week in the entire calendar when devotees of the game do not throng the beachside courses.