Fort Columbia State Park

Fort Columbia was built along the shores of the Columbia River from 1896 to 1904, as a part of the “triangle of fire” that included Fort Canby and Fort Stevens in protecting the mouth of the Columbia River. Declared surplus after WW2, it was transferred to the custody of Washington State in 1950. In the 1960s Battery 246 at the fort was outfitted as a Civil Defense Emergency Operating Center for the governor in case of emergency.
Fort Columbia is now managed as a state park, with interpretive signs, and makes a great stop along the coast.