Name: Eliza B/Moderngypsy
box name: Cape Perpetua
County: ? (sorry)
Nearest Town: Yachats
Hike: easy-ish
directions: easy

From Highway 101 in either direction, park at the lot just across from
the driveway for the Visitor's Center. (The small lot is slightly north
of the driveway, and has big informational signs on the north side.)
You'll need to pay the day use fee of $5 unless you have a NW Forest
Pass (recommended). Though it looks small from here, the park is
actually huge, and you'll likely spend some time here once you have the
stamp in your logbook, so it's worth the fee. :)

Go north, past the informational signs, along the highway. (There's a
dirt path and a steel fence so you don't get slammed into by the traffic
or anything.) Go past the wonderful lookout of the cape and cove, and
follow the signs at the next clearing area that lead to the trails.

You'll be following the signs to Devil's Churn, an amazing little area
that isn't viewable from the road, where water rushes down a long
channel into a cave at the end and hisses/moans/roars, giving it its
name. You can do this by either following the 2.8 mile trail (almost
all paved and certainly marked), or by diverting south at the place
where the trail branches to a sign about local wildlife. Go down the
stairs and go around the cape on the rocks below to see some wonderful
tidepools. (Good with kids, but only advisable at low tide, of course.)

When you get to Devil's Churn, you'll find some cement stairs leading
back up to the main trail. Go up the first set of nine, then the next
set of three, and the set of two afterward. At the second bench on a
switchback, sit down.

To your left is a stone retaining wall built by the CCC. Count eight
stones from your waist going left up the top edge of the wall, and
you'll find a stone that juts out with a hole behind it.

The letterbox is in the hole. Please be careful when putting it back so
that it doesn't fall all the way to the bottom. (It shouldn't -- the
box is bigger than the hole, but it may be bigger by the time you get
there, of course.) You'll recognize the stamp from the signs in the lot
where you parked.

Follow the trail back, and do hit the Visitor's Center before you go.
The day we were there, there was a resident pod of California Grey
Whales making an appearance in the waters, visible from the center,
which made all of the hike worth it. :)