Some facts you may not know about Tillamook County:   

• Tillamook County is home to the world’s largest wooden structure, the Naval Air Station, which is housed in a former World War II blimp hangar.
• The Octopus Tree, featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not; is located in Tillamook County.
• Some of the Oregon Coast's best kayaking and crabbing are in Tillamook County.
• Cape Lookout State Park includes nearly every geologic and natural feature found on the Oregon Coast.
• Three Arch Rocks near Oceanside was declared a National Wildlife Refuge in the early 1900s by President Theodore Roosevelt.
• Munson Falls, less than 10 miles from Tillamook, is the highest waterfall in Oregon's Coastal Mountain range.
• Tillamook County offers five estuaries, four bays, oceanic wildlife, coastal rainforests and an extensive watershed system flowing from Oregon's Coastal Mountain range.
• Tillamook County bays and ocean beaches have the largest area of clam beds of any Oregon county.
• Each August, the county hosts the Tillamook County Fair, which is host to the most unusual auto speed contest in North America — the world-famous championship Pig-n-Ford races. You have to see it to believe it! To learn more, visit the Tillamook County Fair.

For more information about what to do after your visit to the Tillamook Cheese Visitor's Center, visit the Oregon Coast Visitors Association.