TILLAMOOK, Ore. — The Tillamook Rock Lighthouse off the northwest coast of Oregon is for sale for $6.5 million. The island’s isolation, impossible boat landings and extreme weather as well as the ...

Tillamook Rock Lighthouse was built on a bare stone pillar hammered constantly by the Pacific Ocean. Construction crews had to leap from boats onto the rock and be winched up through crashing waves.

CANNON BEACH, Ore. (AP) — The Tillamook Rock Lighthouse off the northwest coast of Oregon is for sale for $6.5 million. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports investors had paid $50,000 in 1980 to buy the ...

The sea is a dangerous mistress, changing and untamable. Her storms have claimed ships and sailors by the score, making those stout enough to brave her temper a rare bunch. From the shores, jutting ...

Cannon Beach, Oregon — The Tillamook Rock Lighthouse off the northwest coast of Oregon is for sale, for $6.5 million. The island's isolation, impossible boat landings and extreme weather as well as ...

TILLAMOOK, Ore. (KOIN) — The Tillamook Rock Lighthouse is the subject of local folklore and tales of the dead, its secrets guarded by the treacherous seas surrounding its darkened doorways, battered ...

The four men and one woman, age 29-58, had camped three nights on the exposed basalt outpost and spent their days cleaning up the stone fortress to ready it for sale. They also collected artifacts to ...

Alexander K. Pesonen, former head keeper at Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, became North Head Lighthouse’s first keeper in 1898, but he is more often remembered because of his wife, Mary. Sometime in the ...

Regular visitors to the Oregon coast will no doubt be familiar with Ecola State Park, but few are as familiar with its wild side. Nearly 600,000 people visited Ecola in 2018 – a popular destination at ...

FILE - Tillamook Head Lighthouse is shown on July 30, 2010, from Ecola State Park, near Cannon Beach, Ore. The lighthouse off the northwest coast of Oregon is for sale for $6.5 million. The island's ...

CANNON BEACH, Ore. (AP) — The Tillamook Rock Lighthouse off the northwest coast of Oregon is for sale for $6.5 million. The island’s isolation, impossible boat landings and extreme weather as well as ...