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By George McCormick-Credits to the Forks Forum
At the end of State Route 112, Neah Bay is the home of Makah Indian Reservation, the Makah Cultural and Research Center museum, a new marina and a U.S. Coast Guard station.

The Makah Tribe's 10,000-square-foot museum, built in 1979, displays thousands of artifacts archaeologists dug up in the 1980s from a 3,000-year-old Indian fishing, village discovered eight miles south of the reservation on the Pacific Ocean near Cape Alava.

It is the largest archaeological collection held by any tribe in the U.S. Artifacts from another ancient fishing village at the mouth of the Hoko River dig are also on display.

Hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily until Labor Day Sept. 1, and then 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday until Memorial Day 1998. Admission is $4 adults; $3 students and seniors; free for children 5 and under.

August 25-27 - Makah Days - The 76th celebration focused around Makah patriotism for the US, with Makah war veterans taking a "high seat". This Celebration spans three days with canoe races and bone games, kids races, royalty, salmon bake, traditional dancing, talent show and fireworks. 

Along with its rich native American culture, Neah Bay has a harbor protected by a breakwater and small island at the end of the breakwater, which forms the inner harbor. Today, Neah Bay caters to sports fishermen at its new marina.

The isolated community has motels and retail support services.

Cape Flattery, to Neah Bay's west, is the northwesternmost point in the contiguous U.S. and has a new lookout at the end of a trail, where visitors can see the rugged coastline and Tatoosh Island and the Cape Flattery Lighthouse, which is today unmanned.

Neah 'Bay is also home to a new 190-slip marina in Neah Bay, opened in spring 1997, to provide fishermen and boaters safer and permanent moorage.

The development, which includes parking and rest rooms with showers, is the culmination of the tribe's 32-year effort to provide a modern facility capable of supporting the fishing fleet and stimulating new economic opportunity by providing moorage for trawlers, commercial fishing boats and luxury cruisers.

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