THE TRAVEL CENTER
"Plan Your Own Adventure!"

The only way to really know a coast trail is to travel one!
Our Travel Center Gives You Access To Information that Allows You to Be Your Own Travel Agent and Plan
Coastal Adventures for Yourself!

It Will Grow and Expand it with a focus on
Providing Hard-to-find, Unusual, and Basic Information
And LINKS to get you down the coastal trail!

WEATHER
If you want to know what the weather is right now or will be over the next few days around the world then you've come to the right place.  Decide whether you want to go to the coast, and if you do, then what clothing and equipment you'll need to "weather the weather whatever the weather."
 The Weather Channel
 

GENERAL RECREATION (Federal)
If you want to know about hiking and other opportunities for outdoor recreation on federal public lands then you've come to the right place.  Decide where you want to travel
along the National Coast Trail and begin your search.
Click on  Recreation.Gov  to begin!
 

CAMPING
If where you want to eat and sleep is a coastal campground along the west coast here's some basic information and links.
We'll be expanding this section Winter 2000 to include coastal areas along the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, and those of the Great Lakes as well.

General Information and Reservations
 Washington State Parks
 Oregon State Parks
 California State Parks
 

Federal Campgrounds
 US Forest Service & US Army Corps of Engineers Lands
 

ACCOMMODATIONS

Hotels, Motels, and other Lodging
 Oregon Coast Travel Guide - Lodging

Hostels
Hostels provide budget-minded travelers with a unique place to call
home for a night. Here you can cook, perhaps do laundry, socialize with others, usually sleep in a dormitory bunk bed, take a shower, and get information for tommorrow's adventure. They usually open in the late afternoon, lock their doors at a reasonable hour, and close by mid-morning of the next day, unless located in a major metropolitan area. They're all over the world and coastal areas seem to be especially well-populated with them. Some are simple, some are quite unique! For example the hostels along the California coast include a pioneer home, a former military hospital, lighthouse keeper's quarters, late nineteenth century cottages, and a former library! Hostels can be used by all age groups, and some hostels offer a private room to accomodate families or couples seeking privacy. Anyone may use hostel facilities, but if you become a hostel member then you pay less for each nights stay.

In the United States you may join through
 Hostelling International - American Youth Hostels

 REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK HOSTEL

In Canada through
 Hostelling International - Canada
 

TRANSPORTATION

Ferry Service

 Washington State Ferry System

 British Columbia Ferry System - B.C. Ferries

 Blackball Transport
(Ferry Between Port Angeles, WA and Victoria, BC)
An important transportation link in the National Coast Trail to connect WA to AK through BC.

Alaska Marine Highway [http://www.[http://www.state.ak.us CLICK alaska
home page to hot topics to ferry schedules}

Bus Service

Boat Service

Plane Service
 

TOURS

"Antarctic Coast Trail"
"Polar Journeys Aboard The World's Most Powerful Icebreakers"
 Quark Expeditions

Coastal Trails of Great Britain, Ireland, France, Italy, and Greece!
"Explorations along Coastal and Country Footpaths in the British Isles and Continental Europe."
 British Coastal Trails, Inc.
 

EQUIPMENT RENTALS

TOURIST INFORMATION

Oregon Coast

Washington Coast
 Long Beach Peninsula Visitor Center

California Coast

 

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