ASTORIA, Ore. - Even if you've been to the Astoria/Warrenton area before, there's a good chance you haven't seen everything there is to see.

I was just there a few months back while I traveled the coastline for a special Beach Week series (that's me in the picture below - sitting on the biggest anchor I've ever seen in my life outside the maritime museum in Astoria). 

At the time, I thought I had made a pretty good run at checking out the notable attractions (like the Peter Iredale shipwreck, Fort Stevens State Park, the sea lions at E. Mooring Basin and the Goonies house), but there was a lot that I missed.

Or so I discovered when I ran across a mention of some free, self-guided audio tours and accompanying maps that were recently launched on the Astoria-Warrenton Area Chamber of Commerce's Web site.

What a cool idea - and what great tools to take along if you plan on spending time visiting these towns on the north Oregon coast.  I just might have to go back.

There are two different tours available for download to your iPod or MP3 player - one features local historical attractions and another shows you where movie scenes from Free Willy, Kindergarten Cop, Short Circuit and more were filmed.

Printable maps make it easy to find the locations mentioned in the audio tour. You can check out a preview of the featured attractions in the video below:

Map/Audio Files

• Tour Map (printable pdf)
• Download audio files (scroll down to the 'Streaming Audio Tour' section) 

Featured Attractions

• Cannery Row
• Uniontown and Doughboy Monument
• Bond Street Boarding Houses
• Courthouse and Post Office
• Churches and Saloons
• Capt. George Flavel House
• Mrs. Flavel
• Fire Destroys Downtown Astoria
• Liberty Theater
• Astor Hotel
• Fort Astoria and Ranald McDonald
• Sanborn House
• Craftsman Homes
• Heritage Museum
• Astoria Column (pictured on the right)
• Pier 39 Cannery
• Fort Stevens
• Peter Iredale Shipwreck
• Fort Clatsop
• Lightship Columbia
• Astoria Riverfront Trolley

The Reel Astoria Tour

Map/Audio Files

• Tour Map (printable pdf)
• Download audio files (scroll down to the 'Streaming Audio Tour' section) 

Featured Attractions

• Free Willy House
• Kindergarten Cop House
• Kindergarten Cop School
• Short Circuit House
• Goonies House (pictured on the right)
• Goonies Jail
• Goonies Football Field
• The Ring II Opening
• The Ring II House
• TMNT3 - Youngs River Falls
• Kindergarten Cop Restaurant
• Kindergarten Cop/Goonies/Point Break - Ecola State Park

Shannon L. Cheesman is a Portland-area Web Producer/Reporter who specializes in the outdoors. She writes and reports for Fisher Interactive Network, which consists of 13 local news/information Web sites in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California.