Ecola State Park on the Oregon coast preserves a shoreline with deep Indigenous history and later national and state significance. The area was used by the Tillamook and Clatsop from at least 1100 CE, with archaeological sites showing long settlement and food gathering at places such as Ecola Point and Bald Point. In January 1806, members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition named nearby Ecola Creek while searching for a beached whale, and William Clark climbed Tillamook Head. The modern park was created in 1932 after land transfers in the 1930s, later expanded, and also contained a World War II radar facility. Today it remains one of Oregon’s most visited coastal parks.