Cannon Beach is famous for Haystack Rock, colorful tidepools and diverse birdlife. It is a picturesque small-town village by the sea, one of America’s best art towns with a ton of character. There are abundant hiking trails and panoramic coastal views. In 1805, William Clark of the Lewis and Clark expedition traveled south to Cannon Beach from their camp at what is now Astoria, Oregon. Here he saw “the grandest and most pleasing prospects which my eyes ever surveyed, in front of a boundless ocean.”