Tillamook, Oregon
Today, 12/7/2023, I would have returned from Cape Lookout State Park and through Tillamook on my way home from my yurt camping trip. I did not take this trip due to heavy rainfall, high winds, and flooding in this coastal area. Highway 101 was closed due to flooding. Many other local two lane country roads were flooded.
Here are some images from the Internet of this Beautiful Agricultural Area:
Tillamook valley and hills
Tillamook State Forest
Tillamook City Population 5,300 Images On US 101 and Junction with Oregon Road 6 leading back east to Portland.
Motels, restaurants, cafes, gift shops, grocery, banks, museums, dairy farms, lumber industry, hospital, gas, stores, services, supplies.
The Tillamook area has many dairy farms on green flat land east of the bay.
Tillamook Coast Visitors Guide
Tillamook Library Tillamook County Library System
Tillamook County Population 25,300 The City of Tillamook is the County Seat.
Tillamook Creamery Tours
Tillamook County Pioneer Museum
Blue Heron French Cheese Company
Northwest Coastal Oregon Travel Guide: Astoria to Cape Lookout. By Mike Garofalo.
Bayocean Development Failure Story
Tillamook Bay Shellfishing Clams and Crabs
Barview Jetty County Park Campground, picnic, hiking. At the north jetty to Tillamook Bay.
Oyster Farming in Tillamook Bay - A History
Tillamook Bay Environmental History
Port of Tillamook Bay Information, History
"The bay is protected from the open ocean by shoals and a 3 mi (5 km) sandbar called the Bayocean Peninsula. It is surrounded closely by the Coastal Range except at its southeast end, where the town of Tillamook sits near the mouths of the Kilchis, Wilson, Trask and Tillamook rivers, which flow quickly down from the surrounding timber-producing regions of the Coastal Range to converge at the bay. The short Miami River enters the north end of the bay. The small fishing village of Garibaldi sits near the cliffs opening of the bay in the ocean. The rivers that feed the bay are known for their prolific steelhead and salmon runs. The mixing of freshwater from the rivers with the ocean's saltwater makes the bay an estuary.
The name "Tillamook" is Coast Salish word meaning "Land of Many Waters", probably referring to the rivers that enter the bay. At the time of the arrival of Europeans, the area along the coast was inhabited by the Tillamook and other related Coast Salish tribes. Historians believe they entered the area around the year 1400 and Lewis and Clark estimated the population south of the Columbia River along the coast at approximately 2,200."
- Tillamook Bay
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