The West (Day 14)- Fort Stevens State Park, OR

Through Astoria and over the bridge to Fort Stevens State Park we go. ♫

Fort Stevens sits at the mouth of the Columbia River, on the southern side (yesterday we were just on the other side of the border).

Fort Stevens is listed on the National Registrar of Historic Places.

It was an active military site from 1863 until 1947.

It is the only Civil War era earthen fort on the west coast.

In June of 1942 it was attacked by a Japanese sub, making it the first military base to be attacked by an enemy in the contiguous United States.  

These canons are fiberglass replicas.  

All of the weapons were removed in 1947.

Hello Squirrel. 

This is the steam plant.

You can actually do an underground tour of the World War II command center.

How cool would that be?

The real reason we are here is to do a bike ride, the fort was just a bonus.

Starting at the military site there are miles of bike paths throughout the state park.

We have looked at several Oregon biking route maps and this route was not on it.  Granted it was only about 7 miles total, but it it is a multi-use path (completely off of the road) so I think it should be included.  It makes you wonder what other multi-use paths like this are out there.

We will just have to find them ourselves!

We thoroughly enjoyed biking in Fort Stevens State Park.  The weather couldn't have been more perfect, sunny but in the lower 70s.

Eric has to work just a little harder than me, since he has precious cargo.