Synopses & Reviews
This complete coastal guide describes hiking trails, campgrounds, museums, towns, and lighthouses from Washington's Long Beach south to California's Redwoods.
The expanded and revised Fourth Edition includes a 32-page color travel guide to coastal highlights, a guide to the Oregon Coast Trail, a color wildflower guide, a catalog of campgrounds, and a chart of the best inns and quaint hotels on the Oregon Coast.
About the Author
William L. Sullivan is the author of eighteen books and numerous articles about Oregon, including a "Oregon Trails" feature column for the Eugene Register-Guard and the Salem Statesman-Journal.
A fifth-generation Oregonian, Sullivan began hiking at the age of five and has been exploring new trails ever since. After studying at Deep Springs College in the California desert, receiving an English degree from Cornell University, and studying linguistics at Germany's Heidelberg University, he earned an M.A. in German literature from the University of Oregon. He has been happily married to the artist Janell Sorensen for nearly 40 years.
In 1985 Sullivan set out to investigate Oregon's wilderness on a 1,361-mile solo backpacking trek from the state's westernmost shore at Cape Blanco to Oregon's easternmost point in Hells Canyon. His journal of that two-month adventure, published as Listening for Coyote (1-minute video), was chosen in by the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission in 2005 as one of the 100 most significant books in Oregon's history.
With the completion of the popular 5-book series of 100 Hikes guides to Oregon's trails Sullivan has hiked nearly every public trail in Oregon. Now he is rehiking many of those trails, keeping his guidebooks up to date. Each new edition features a dozen new trails, updated information on museums and rental cabins, and a 16-page color section that includes a wildflower identification guide. All of his 100 Hikes books are updated every year or two to keep pace with changes due to storm damage, fires, construction, and changing fee systems. Titles in that series include 100 Hikes in Northwest Oregon & SW Washington, 100 Hikes in the Central Oregon Cascades, 100 Hikes in Southern Oregon, 100 Hikes/Travel Guide: Eastern Oregon, and 100 Hikes/Travel Guide: Oregon Coast & Coast Range.