"Heceta Head Lighthouse is one of seven lighthouses along the Oregon coast. The lighthouse is a part of 117-acre Devil's Elbow State Park, 13 miles north of Florence on U.S. Highway 101. It was erected in 1894. The tower is 56 feet high with the light 205 feet above sea level. Heceta Head was named by the Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1862 to commemorate the discoveries of Spanish explorer Don Bruno de Heceta, Lane County." Oregon Department of Transportation Photo 7881