Note: No hikes on this day.

Arrive To: Check in beginning at 3 in the hotel lobby. Orientation is at 5 p.m. in the meeting room upstairs of the hotel restaurant, (north end of complex).

Dinner: Dinner at 6 PM.

Lodging: Driftwood Shores Resort

Meals Included: Dinner

Geology lecture, Heceta Head Lighthouse hike, China Creek Trail, Hobbit Trail, and Washburne Beach hikes

Note: Morning hike to lighthouse is 1 mile over good path with steady incline. Afternoon hike is a loop through a rainforest, down a shore pine hillside, and along a flat beach. Afternoon hike is 4 miles total.

Breakfast: Hot breakfast served in the hotel meeting room.

Morning: Geology lecture in the conference room. Short 2-mile hike to historic lighthouse at Heceta Head.

Lunch: Box lunch at Washburne Campground; sandwiches, cold cuts. chips, dessert and fruit.

Afternoon: 4-mile loop hike through coastal rainforest and along open beach. Naturalist guides will make stops to explore local flora and fauna.

Dinner: Buffet served in conference room.

Evening: Natural History of the Oregon Coast lecture.

Lodging: Driftwood Shores Resort

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Note: Cape Perpetua hikes total 6.5 miles over steep rainforest ridges and along rocky shorelines. Trails are uneven and often rocky, but not loose or dangerous. Elevation gain is almost 1,000 feet. There is an option for a total 8 mile hike.

Breakfast: Hot breakfast served in the hotel meeting room.

Morning: Field Trip north 25 miles to Cape Perpetua Natural & Scenic Viewing Area Spectacular headland with hike options. 7.5-mile old-growth forest and ocean headland hike with a naturalist guide or two 2-mile hikes with naturalist guide along ocean headland and up to ancient spruce tree.

Lunch: Box Lunch in Field

Afternoon: Continue hiking around Cape Perpetua. 7.5-mile hikers will continue walk with naturalist while short-hikers will continue their walk with naturalist guide. Following hikes the entire group will travel to the top of Cape Perpetua for a 1/2-mile walk along scenic vista trail.

Dinner: Dinner at resort.

Evening: Free evening

Lodging: Driftwood Shores Resort

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Note: Morning hike is loop trail of 3.5 miles to a lakeside campsite through a thick rainforest. Trail is up-and-down with some steps. Afternoon hikes are in dune environment on good trails. Loops of less than 2 miles in length. Total day mileage is less than 6.

Breakfast: Breakfast served in conference room.

Morning: Siltcoos Lale Trail: 3.5-mile loop trail through beautiful rainforest to dunal lake.

Lunch: Box lunch in field

Afternoon: Waxmyrtle Creek Trail along the Estuary and Lagoon Trail easy and flat trails; about 2 miles total. Gorgeous views of estuary and wildlife including migratory birds, ospreys, eagles and otters and nutria! Lagoon Trail, Siltcoos Estuary Trail at Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area; emphasis on western snowy plover endangered species; raptors (bald eagles, osprey, northern harriers, etc) and herons and egrets.

Dinner: Buffet served at the hotel in conference room.

Evening: Evening lecture to be determined.

Lodging: Driftwood Shores Resort

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Incredible Sweet Creek Trail. Ride on the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area.

Note: Morning hikes through amazing rainforest alongside cascading stream with 13 waterfalls along 1-mile trail. Slight elevation gain on rocky trail. Total mileage for morning is 3 miles. Afternoon ride through the Oregon Dunes.

Breakfast: Hot breakfast served in hotel meeting room.

Morning: Incredible hike! Sweet Creek Trail; 2 miles and 13 cascading waterfalls along salmon stream in beautiful forest! This is one of the prettiest trails in the state!

Lunch: Picnic lunch in the field.

Afternoon: After lunch, Ride over the spectacular Oregon Dunes the largest coastal dunes in the Western Hemisphere!

Dinner: Buffet dinner in the hotel meeting room.

Evening: Wrap-up gathering in hotel conference room.

Lodging: Driftwood Shores Resort

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Individual departures. Check out time is Noon. Happy Trails and Safe Trip!!

Breakfast: Buffet; variety of cereals, protein dish, pastries, yogurts

Morning: Check out by Noon. Travel safe!

Meals Included: Breakfast