Waikiki Beach
Waikiki Beach is a beach in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Green Mountain stands 623 m to the southeast, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Battery Guenther, a historic site 0.2 miles away. JCT ASTORIA-MEGLAR BRIDGE TO FOWLER STREET IN RAYMOND passes 2.1 miles off. 166 named places lie within 25 miles, 21 of them named summits.
The story
Cape Disappointment State Park (formerly Fort Canby State Park) is a public recreation area on Cape Disappointment, located southwest of Ilwaco, Washington, on the bottom end of Long Beach Peninsula, the northern headlands where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean. The state park's 2,023 acres (819 ha) encompass a diverse landscape of old-growth forest, freshwater lakes, freshwater and saltwater marshes, and oceanside tidelands. Park sites include Fort Canby, the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center, North Head Lighthouse, and Cape Disappointment Lighthouse. Cape Disappointment is one of several state parks and sites in Washington and Oregon that are included in Lewis and Clark National Historical Park.
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How to reach it
- 2.1 mi off the JCT ASTORIA-MEGLAR BRIDGE TO FOWLER STREET IN RAYMOND
- 9.2 mi off the JCT SR 101 VIC POINTE ELLICE TO JCT SR 4 VIC NASELLE
- 9.5 mi off the Pacific Coast, National
- 13.3 mi off the JCT 101 VIC LONG BEACH TO COAL CREEK RD VIC LONGVIEW CITY LIMITS
Overlooks nearby
166 named places within 25 miles
- Ilwaco Community Park: 2.3 mi
- Lewis & Clark Memorial Park: 4.8 mi
- Veterans' Field: 4.8 mi
- Culbertson Park: 4.8 mi
- Charlie Davis Park: 5.3 mi
- Battery Guenther: 0.2 mi
- Battery Harvey Allen: 0.3 mi
- Battery 247: 0.4 mi
- Battery O'Flyng: 0.6 mi
- Observation Station: 1.6 mi
- McKenzie Head: 0.4 mi
- McKenzie Head: 0.4 mi
- Dilly Hill: 3.8 mi
- Megler Mountain: 8.3 mi
- Bear Mountain: 11.5 mi
- Grey Whale Skeleton: 4.6 mi
- World's Biggest Frying Pan: 4.7 mi
- World's Longest Beach Sign: 4.9 mi
- Old growth spruce: 5.6 mi
- 155mm GPF Gun: 6.8 mi
- Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center: 0.3 mi
- Columbia Pacific Heritage Museum: 2.0 mi
- World Kite Museum: 4.5 mi
- Cranberry Museum: 6.1 mi
- War Games Building: 6.8 mi
- California Condor: 2.0 mi
- Ocas: 4.7 mi
- Clark's Tree: 6.2 mi
- Lewis & Clark at Dismal Nitch: 9.6 mi
- Comcomly Canoe: 13.4 mi
- Knappton Water Access: 11.8 mi
- Teal Slough Natural Resources Conservation Area: 12.4 mi
- Lewis and Clark National Historical Park: 13.6 mi
- Twilight Eagle Sanctuary: 19.0 mi
- Gearhart Ocean State Park: 19.0 mi
- North Head: 1.5 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 2.3 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 18.2 mi
- Pigeon Bluff: 18.2 mi
- Pacific City: 0.2 mi
- Knappton: 11.7 mi
- Frankfort: 14.5 mi
- Ford Stevens Memorial Rose Garden: 6.8 mi
- Garden of Surging Waves: 12.6 mi
- Columbia Beach: 8.2 mi
- Seaside Beach: 20.7 mi
- Dismal Nitch Rest Area: 9.7 mi
- Cullaby Lake County Park: 15.4 mi
- Youngs River Falls: 19.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Waikiki Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Mountain | SE 137° | 623 m | 24.8 mi |
| Davis Point | SSE 154° | 540 m | 24.8 mi |
| Sister Green Mountain | SE 143° | 521 m | 23.6 mi |
| Twin Peaks | SSE 159° | 467 m | 24.7 mi |
| Elk Mountain | E 82° | 459 m | 24.5 mi |
| Clark's Mountain | S 169° | 382 m | 22.5 mi |
| Altoona Hill | E 91° | 369 m | 20.5 mi |
| Megler Mountain | E 98° | 323 m | 8.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:20 | 18:49 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 20:26 | 21:13 |
| September equinox | 07:04 | 18:36 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:57 | 15:42 | 16:33 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 43 | 45 | 48 | 52 | 55 | 59 | 59 | 57 | 51 | 45 | 42 |
| Precip in | 12.0 | 7.8 | 8.7 | 6.8 | 3.5 | 2.6 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 2.7 | 8.2 | 11.4 | 12.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Long Beach EXP STN, 6 mi away.
Mean tidal range 6.02 ft at the nearest NOAA station.
NOAA CO-OPS station Cape Disappointment, WA, under a mileaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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