What to do on the People's Coast

• Bob Straub State Park

  Pacific City, Oregon 97135

  800.551.6949

  Bob Straub State Park is a nice place to go to walk on the beach and explore the Nestucca sand spit. This park is located in Pacific City and provides beach access, parking, and restrooms. The Nestucca River is legendary for 50 pound chinook salmon. This park offers beach access, and opportunities for picnicking, fishing, wildlife watching, marine mammal watching, and bird watching.

  http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_183.php

• Boiler Bay State Scenic Viewpoint

  Depoe Bay, Oregon 97301

  800-551-6949

  A miraculous and rugged, basalt-rimmed bay, Boiler Bay is a great place to watch wild surf action on the rocky spurs. This splendid panoramic viewpoint presents a good opportunity to see migrating and resident gray whales. Take your binoculars -- this is one of the best sites in Oregon to see oceangoing birds (like shearwaters, jaegers, albatrosses, grebes, pelicans, loons, oystercatchers and murrelets). In 1910, an explosion sank the J. Marhoffer, and you can see the ship's boiler at low-tide.

  http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_213.php

• Cape Meares State Scenic Viewpoint

  Tillamook, Oregon 97141

  800-551-6949

  A must-see when driving the Three Capes Scenic route, Cape Meares State Scenic Viewpoint is situated on a headland 200 feet above the ocean. Cape Lookout and Cape Kiwanda are the other two capes on this route. Cape Meares provides an excellent view of the largest colony of nesting common murres (the site is one of the most populous colonies of nesting sea birds on the continent). Bald eagles and a peregrine falcon have also been known to nest near here.<P>

  http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_181.php

• Devil's Lake State Recreation Area

  US 101

  Lincoln City, Oregon 97301

  541-994-2002

  With downtown Lincoln City mere minutes away, you can glide quietly by canoe or kayak on the lake while you watch for coots, loons, ducks, cormorants, bald eagles and grebes. As the only Oregon coast campground located in the midst of a city, the lake is a center of summertime activity. The park is nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the 678-acre Devil's Lake. You'll find the campground on the west shore, and the East Devil's Lake day-use area just down the road. The park features boat moorage slips

  http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_216.php

• Munson Creek State Natural Area

  6 mi. S of Tillamook on Hwy 101. Turn east on Munson Cr,. Rd for 2 mi.

  Tillamook , Oregon 97141

  800-551-6949

  The park is home to ancient western red cedar and Sitka spruce. A relic of an ancient rain forest, the world's second-tallest spruce -- at 260' tall and 8' in diameter -- lives here. Also an important salmon spawning ground, Munson Creek Falls tumbles 319', making it the tallest waterfall in the Coast Range. A 1/4 mile trail system winds through the hills to the waterfall. Vital stats: There is no fee to use this park. There's no water or restroom at the park. Munson Creek offers opportunities for hiking.

  http://www.oregonstateparks.org/park_245.php

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