Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment

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 station on the Northwest Coast, with 50 crewmembers assigned.

Type: Military installation
Description: Coast Guard search and rescue station
Also known as: “U.S. Coast Guard - Station Cape Disappointment”
Address: 322 Coast Guard Road, Ilwaco, WA 98624

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cape Disappointment Light and Waikiki Beach.

Cape Disappointment Light

Lighthouse

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The Cape Disappointment Light is a lighthouse on Cape Disappointment near the mouth of the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington. Cape Disappointment Light is situated 1,500 feet southwest of Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment.

Waikiki Beach

Beach

Cape Disappointment 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. Waikiki Beach is situated 2,800 feet west of Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment.

North Head Lighthouse

Lighthouse

Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 3.0.

North Head Lighthouse is an active aid to navigation overlooking the Pacific Ocean from North Head, a rocky promontory located approximately two miles north of Cape Disappointment and the mouth of the Columbia River, near Ilwaco, Pacific County, in the U.S. state of Washington. North Head Lighthouse is situated 2 miles northwest of Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ilwaco and Seaview.

Ilwaco

Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ilwaco is a city of about 1000 people in southwestern Washington State. It is on Baker Bay, at the mouth of the Wallacut and Chinook Rivers, behind Cape Disappointment.

Seaview

Suburb

Photo: Lumpytrout, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Long Beach is a beachfront city in southwestern Washington State. It is the largest city on the Long Beach Peninsula, claimed to be the longest continuous beach in the United States. Seaview is situated 4 miles north of Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment.

Chinook

Village

Chinook is a census-designated place in Pacific County, Washington, United States. The population was 457 at the 2020 census. Chinook is situated 5 miles east of Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment.

Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment

Category: military base
Location: Pacific, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

46.27921° or 46° 16′ 45″ north

Longitude

-124.04843° or 124° 2′ 54″ west

Elevation

52 feet (16 metres)

Open location code

84RQ7XH2+MJ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 875740629

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=military

GeoNames ID

7267676

Wikidata ID

Q3497436

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In Other Languages

“Coast Guard Station Cape Disappointment” goes by many names.

French: “station des garde-côtes du cap Disappointment”
French: “Station des garde-côtes du cap Disappointment”

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