It’s no secret that our national parks offer some amazing sights, and they have the crowds to prove it.

If you’d like to be awed by nature without the huge crowds, National Geographic has put out a list of eight underrated state parks that will do the job, and one of them is on the Oregon coast.

Instead of visiting Olympic National Park in Washington, National Geographic tells readers they can find a similar experience in Oregon’s Harris Beach State Park.

Just a bit north of the California border, the park offers beaches, stunning sea stacks, abundant tide pools and a popular 155-site campground right beside the ocean.

Among those impressive sea stacks are Arch Rock and Goat Island.

Arch Rock, which is just south of the main day-use parking lot, is a broad rock formation with a sharp

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