Neah Bay / Cape Flattery
Cape Flattery
Cape
Flattery, to Neah Bay's west, is the northwesternmost
point in the contiguous U.S. and has a new lookout at the
end of a trail, where visitors can see the rugged coastline
and Tatoosh Island and the Cape Flattery Lighthouse, which
is today unmanned.
Neah Bay is also home to a new 190-slip marina in Neah Bay, opened in spring 1997, to provide fishermen and boaters safer and permanent moorage.
The development, which includes parking and rest rooms with showers, is the culmination of the tribe's 32-year effort to provide a modern facility capable of supporting the fishing fleet and stimulating new economic opportunity by providing moorage for trawlers, commercial fishing boats and luxury cruisers.
Neah Bay is also home to a new 190-slip marina in Neah Bay, opened in spring 1997, to provide fishermen and boaters safer and permanent moorage.
The development, which includes parking and rest rooms with showers, is the culmination of the tribe's 32-year effort to provide a modern facility capable of supporting the fishing fleet and stimulating new economic opportunity by providing moorage for trawlers, commercial fishing boats and luxury cruisers.
Neah Bay
At the end of State Route 112,
Neah Bay is the home of Makah Indian Reservation, the
Makah Cultural and Research Center museum, a new marina and
a U.S. Coast Guard station.
The Makah Tribe's 10,000 square-foot museum, built in 1979, displays thousands of artifacts archaeologists dug up in the 1980s from a 3,000-year-old Indian fishing, village discovered eight miles south of the reservation on the Pacific Ocean near Cape Alava.
The permanent gallery exhibits 300-500 year old artifacts recovered from a Makah village at Ozette, Washington There are 18 showcases, 3 diaramas and full-sized replicas of canoes and a longhouse.
The showcases interpret Makah culture and history through artifacts, text and photographs.
It is the largest archaeological collection held by any tribe in the U.S. Artifacts from another ancient fishing village at the mouth of the Hoko River dig are also on display.
Hours are 10 AM - 5 PM daily, Admission is $5.00 adults; $4.00 students and seniors; free for children 5 and under. More Information 360-645-2711 or visit www.makah.com
The Makah Tribe's 10,000 square-foot museum, built in 1979, displays thousands of artifacts archaeologists dug up in the 1980s from a 3,000-year-old Indian fishing, village discovered eight miles south of the reservation on the Pacific Ocean near Cape Alava.
The permanent gallery exhibits 300-500 year old artifacts recovered from a Makah village at Ozette, Washington There are 18 showcases, 3 diaramas and full-sized replicas of canoes and a longhouse.
The showcases interpret Makah culture and history through artifacts, text and photographs.
It is the largest archaeological collection held by any tribe in the U.S. Artifacts from another ancient fishing village at the mouth of the Hoko River dig are also on display.
Hours are 10 AM - 5 PM daily, Admission is $5.00 adults; $4.00 students and seniors; free for children 5 and under. More Information 360-645-2711 or visit www.makah.com
Northwesternmost point of the Olympic Peninsula
From the tribal center, a 10 mile unimproved road goes around Mukkaw Bay and south to Anderson Point and Portage Head. There are still Some concrete bunkers at Portage Head. A seven-mile unimproved road takes you Out to a newly improved Cape Trail that leads out to the point of Cape Flattery - the northwesternmost point of the contiguous United States. Cape Flattery, named by the British captain James Cook in 1778, is the northwestern-most point in the contiguous United States. Cook said the point of land "flattered us with the hopes of finding a harbour"-thus Cape Flattery. A Cape Trail goes through very dense growth of forest to the edge Of the cape where viewing Platforms have been constructed. The Makah Tribe has done a marvelous job with the three-quarter-mile trail making it user-friendly It has been widened in places, and a cedar walkway and steps added where needed. However, it descends to the sheer cliffs near the end and coming back up takes a little effort and a lot of breath. Three viewing platforms are located on the trail. The first looks out to the south, the second to the north and the third has a marvelous view of Tatoosh Island and its lighthouse. A half-mile off shore, Tatoosh lsland's lighthouse was built in 1857. Below, the bluff are Hole-in-the-Wall Cove and Lookthrough-Rock Arch. Tatoosh was named by the British explorer John Meares in 1788 who wished to recognize the principal chief, Tatooche or Tutuzi, then in Neah Bay. The Spanish captain Quimper apparently tried to honor the same chief calling it Isla de Tutusi.
From the tribal center, a 10 mile unimproved road goes around Mukkaw Bay and south to Anderson Point and Portage Head. There are still Some concrete bunkers at Portage Head. A seven-mile unimproved road takes you Out to a newly improved Cape Trail that leads out to the point of Cape Flattery - the northwesternmost point of the contiguous United States. Cape Flattery, named by the British captain James Cook in 1778, is the northwestern-most point in the contiguous United States. Cook said the point of land "flattered us with the hopes of finding a harbour"-thus Cape Flattery. A Cape Trail goes through very dense growth of forest to the edge Of the cape where viewing Platforms have been constructed. The Makah Tribe has done a marvelous job with the three-quarter-mile trail making it user-friendly It has been widened in places, and a cedar walkway and steps added where needed. However, it descends to the sheer cliffs near the end and coming back up takes a little effort and a lot of breath. Three viewing platforms are located on the trail. The first looks out to the south, the second to the north and the third has a marvelous view of Tatoosh Island and its lighthouse. A half-mile off shore, Tatoosh lsland's lighthouse was built in 1857. Below, the bluff are Hole-in-the-Wall Cove and Lookthrough-Rock Arch. Tatoosh was named by the British explorer John Meares in 1788 who wished to recognize the principal chief, Tatooche or Tutuzi, then in Neah Bay. The Spanish captain Quimper apparently tried to honor the same chief calling it Isla de Tutusi.