Tag: outdoors

Coos County Odyssey 2025

Coos County Odyssey 2025

Register for Coos County Odyssey 2025

The virtual “race” starts on January 1 and goes through April 15.  It’s a fun way to achieve your fitness goals in the new year.  You can choose from many types of actual exercise to calculate your virtual miles, and this 3rd Odyssey has new milestones to reach in your 253-mile route around Coos County.  Participate as an individual or form teams with friends, family or colleagues to motivate each other to achieve your goals. The entry fee is $20 (plus a processing fee).  All proceeds go to the Coos County Friends of Public Health for the Nurses’ Purse Fund, which helps families in need in Coos County.  

Let’s get moving in 2025!  

When you register, you can join a team (like the Striders and Friends), register as an individual, or start your own group or team.

After you have signed up for Coos County Odyssey a good way to start the year will be to take a FIRST DAY HIKE. See the list of nearby first day hikes HERE.

To the Bogs and Back–Bandon 2024

To the Bogs and Back–Bandon 2024

Saturday, October 19, 2024 (10:00 AM)

To help us know how many to expect at the hike, please register here

Visit the Bogs…and More

Join us for an in-town hike on the wilder side of Bandon. Follow sidewalks, quiet streets and pathways on a 2.5-mile loop that leads from the Bandon History Museum to a good vantage point to see some cranberry bogs during harvest season. Museum volunteer Jim Proehl will share some “History Minutes” along the way. Expect a sojourn in a cemetery as part of this October hike. Extend the walk by picking up one of several “Healthy, Historic Hike” maps at the museum and following another route through historic Bandon. 

Park in the museum parking lot and if that fills up, park in the public lot at Face Rock Creamery or on adjacent streets.

You’ll visit the site of this History Minute:

See a brochure and map about the hike.

Harvesting Cranberries
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We got lucky on last year’s hike, and watched a live harvest. We can’t promise that this year, but it’s always possible!

Register Here

Location and Time

We will meet at 10:00 in Public Parking lot of the Bandon Historical Society Museum. If the lot is full you can find additional parking behind the Face Rock Creamery  Map Link to Museum and additional parking area.

Directions – The museum is on the corner of Highway 101 and Fillmore Ave.

Blacklock Point from Airport Road, Saturday, July 27

Blacklock Point from Airport Road, Saturday, July 27

Requires Registration–Registration Form

This hike is just over 5 miles long, across fairly level terrain, with great views along the way.

For this hike we’ll start at the Cape Blanco State Airport (see directions below), and hike parallel to the runway for a while before heading North, and then looping around toward the shoreline, where we’ll have some of the hike’s best views. Then we’ll continue to Blacklock Point, returning by a shorter trail.

There will be a short option that starts along the same path as the rest of the group, but skips the longer loop, proceeding directly to Blacklock Point. That is an out and back hike, totaling 4 miles altogether.

The differences are shown on the map below.

Dress in layers, windbreaker with a hood is highly recommended.  Bring water and something to eat (lunch or a snack.). There are no restrooms at the trailhead, but there are several well protected areas along the way.

Plan on 3 hours for this hike, depending on how clear the day is (there are lots of photo opportunities on a clear day, which could slow us down).

Hike Guidelines

  1. Hike groups will be limited to about 15 people. That’s to make it easier to keep track of everyone as we reach turns.
  2. You will be asked to complete a registration form so that we can control the number.

Location and Time

Meet at 10:00 on Saturday, July 27 at the trailhead just outside of the Cape Blanco Airport Entrance. For those of you heading south on 101, you will turn on Airport Road, about 20 miles south of Bandon. Then follow Airport Road for about 3 miles. If you’re heading North, the turn on Airport Road is about 7.2 miles from Port Orford. Airport road is directly across from Pacific High School.

There are two parking areas. The one on the left isn’t as obvious, but if there are a lot of cars, we may need to use it.

Remember to complete registration form.

Coos County Odyssey 2024–and 2024 First Day Hikes

Coos County Odyssey 2024–and 2024 First Day Hikes

Register for Coos County Odyssey 2024

The virtual “race” starts on January 1 and goes through April 15.  It’s a fun way to achieve your fitness goals in the new year.  You can choose from many types of actual exercise to calculate your virtual miles, and this 3rd Odyssey has new milestones to reach in your 229-mile route around Coos County.  Participate as an individual or form teams with friends, family or colleagues to motivate each other to achieve your goals. The entry fee is $25 (plus a $2.50 processing fee).  All proceeds go to the Coos County Friends of Public Health for the Nurses’ Purse Fund, which helps families in need in Coos County.  

Let’s get moving in 2024!  

When you register, you can join a team (like the South Coast Striders), register as an individual, or start your own group or team.

Nearby First Day Hikes

Enjoy one of the Oregon State Parks First Day hikes on January 1, 2024

Bullards Beach State Park 1:00 PM

Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park 9:00 AM

Shore Acres State Park 10:00 AM

William M. Tugman State Park 1:00 PM

Umpqua Lighthouse State Park 10:00 AM

With a little bit of planning it may be possible to do two of these hikes.

Click on the hikes for more details