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Field Trip: The Hobbit Trail
May 24 @ 12:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Saturday, May 24, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Field Trip: The Hobbit Trail
Leader: Lecia Schall
Location: 91892 Oregon Coast Hwy, Florence, OR
Enjoy mystical spruce and trees, on the Hobbit Trail. We will wander through magical pathways through giant rhododendron and evergreen huckleberry, down to sand dunes to aptly named Hobbit Beach. Options will be to continue northward along the beach or retrace your steps until the trail forks and heads up the cape to Heceta Head, where leather polypodium sprawl under massive Sitka spruce.
The trail to Heceta Head Lighthouse offers coastal views, incredible forest scenery that seems straight out of a storybook, and then you can enjoy the history of this cute Oregon lighthouse.
The parking area is located on the side of Highway 101 (there is a small gravel pull-off that has a small hiking sign by it). We will meet there and cross the highway to get to the trail. We will go to Hobbit Beach first. Later we might head left to Heceta Head Lighthouse. Since both trails are extremely short, combining them makes for a nice 3.2-mile hike. To reserve your spot contact sc*********@***il.com.