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This sea stack rises right off the beach at Neskowin, where Newkowin Creek meets the Pacific Ocean. A scrubby Sitka spruce woodland crowns the rock, those trees sometimes offering a perch for bald eagles. To south looms Cascade Head, and immediately to the south a low tide offers glimpses of a 2,000-year-old drowned or "ghost" forest, one of several along the Oregon Coast. It is generally accepted that these trees found themselves in the ocean as a result of sudden subduction caused by an earthquake. The tree remains only became visible after the fierce winter storms of 1997 and are better viewed at low winter tides. A user path leads to the top of the rock. The story is that Proposal Rock got its name when a 19th century sea captain rowed his fiancée out to the rock and asked for her hand in marriage.

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