Amanda's Trail Hike

Overview

Amanda’s Trail connects the coastal community of Yachats with the Cape Perpetua Scenic Area and also represents a section of the Oregon Coast Trail. The trail is a memorial to the forced relocation of Native Americans to the vast Siletz Reservation, and then their subsequent relocation from that reservation when white settlers began to claim coastal lands. Amanda De Cuys was a blind Coos woman who was captured along with others of her tribe and force-marched 80 miles up the coast to the Alsea Sub-agency of the vast Coast Indian Reservation at Yachats. Amanda had been living with a white man and had a daughter by him: the daughter was left with her father, but the latter refused to marry her mother. You can begin the hike on the rocky coast at the south end of Yachats; for a stretch, the path runs right alongside Highway 101. You will cross the highway and then enter private forest on an easement. After paying your respects at the Amanda Statue, hike up the steep slope to admire the expansive views from the historic Cape Perpetua Stone Shelter at the top of Cape Perpetua's old shield volcano. From the parking area on Yachats Ocean Road above Agate Point, head south, looking first for a spouting horn, which is only active when the tide is high. After making a turn on the road, you’ll see a churn below with ledges of volcanic rock. Waves thunder into this cul-de-sac and send up fountains of spray when the tide is coming in. As you approach Highway 101, veer off to the right and pick up a path, marked by Oregon Coast Trail signs, which reaches the highway and then proceeds along its west shoulder. (You can also begin the hike about half a mile north from the designated trailhead at the Yachats Ocean Road Picnic Area. Park in the pullout on the right shortly after turning off onto Yachats Ocean Road. Walk down to the beach and then make your way south along the rocky shoreline. At the churn, you’ll have to turn up to the road.) The path crosses Surfside Drive, Gender Drive, and a footbridge. At Windy Way Street

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