Haystack Rock Facts | Facts about Haystack Rocks

How tall is Haystack Rock?

Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach is a sea stack about 235 feet tall.

Tufted puffins nest on Haystack Rock in spring and summer.

Haystack Rock appears in the 1985 movie "The Goonies."

Cannon Beach is named after a cannon that washed ashore from a shipwreck in 1846.

Haystack Rock is a protected marine garden.

Haystack Rock formed from ancient lava flows.

Climbing Haystack Rock is prohibited.

Cannon Beach has held a sandcastle contest since 1964.

Members of the Lewis and Clark expedition traveled near Cannon Beach in 1806 to see a beached whale.

Oregon's 1967 Beach Bill made the state's beaches public.