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The Wreck of the Peter Iredale
100-year-old shipwreck you can walk up to at low tide
Category Unusual Monuments
The Peter Iredale was a four-masted steel barque sailing vessel that ran ashore October 25, 1906, on the Oregon coast en route to the Columbia River.
It was abandoned on Clatsop Spit near Fort Stevens in Warrenton about four miles (6 km) south of the Columbia River channel. The wreckage is still visible, making it a popular tourist attraction as one of the most accessible shipwrecks of the Graveyard of the Pacific. No one was able to remove the boat, so it just stayed there. Over the last 101 years it has slowly deteriorated.
One can still see a very large piece of the ship and during low tide one can walk right up to it.
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- Address Warrenton, Oregon, United States
- Cost Free.
- Wikipedia: Peter Iredale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Iredale
Located at Clatsop Spit near Fort Stevens.
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