United States Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment, situated near Cape Disappointment, Washington, at the mouth of the Columbia River, is the largest United States Coast Guard search and rescue sta
A 47' MLB in heavy surf
Cape Disappointment; the Pacific Ocean is in the foreground, and the mouth of the Columbia is to the right
47' MLB CG-47206 practicing in heavy surf near Cape Disappointment with students from the National Motor Lifeboat School (2011)
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The Columbia Bar is a system of bars and shoals at the mouth of the Columbia River spanning the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington. It is one of the most dangerous bar crossings in the world, earnin
Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment
…colocated with the station is the oldest lighthouse on the Northwest Coast of the United States, Cape Disappointment Light, marking the north side of the Columbia River Bar. Less than two miles (3 km) to the northwest is North Head Light, which provides a beacon for the northern approaches to the Columbia River Bar. The…
South Jetty of the Columbia River under repair in 2022. Repairs on the south jetty stretched from 2019 to 2025.
Described as "the longest jetty in the world" in the 1894 volume of The Overland Monthly.
Panorama of the Columbia River's mouth from near the Cape Disappointment Lighthouse