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Saturday, December 28, 2024

Bridges of the Northwest Coastal USA

Washington and Oregon

Monday, October 16, 2023

Nehalem Bay State Park

Today, I am driving from Vancouver to Manzanita, Oregon. I will be Yurt camping for four days at Nehalem Bay State Park. I have camped here many times. I will post photos and comments when I return on next Thursday afternoon. I expect rain, wind, fog, and cool weather. Likely to see very few campers in this fine park.

Here is my post from January 2022 from Nehalem Bay:

This park is quite large with a long sandy beach, sand dunes, shore pine forest, bay views, and many hiking, biking, and horseback riding trails and roads. The park is over 4 miles long.

There are 310 campsites in this Park. There were only 10 trailers/RV campers, no tent campers, and 3 yurt campers. Thus, the Park was 95% empty of any campers this cold rainy winter day. I enjoy the privacy, the quiet, the solitude.

Fog, drizzling, misting, low clouds, cold, light rain ...

Today, I plan to drive through Manzanita, Nehalem, Wheeler, Rockaway Beach and Garibaldi. I will stop at many places in these areas.

I walked around Barview Jetty County Park near Garibaldi. Crews were working on the north jetty entrance to Tillamook Bay.

I visited Manhattan Beach Wayside Oregon State Park.

I walked on a wood boardwalk through a swamp old growth cedar forest near Rockaway Beach, and along the beach and bay.

I ate at the Big Wave restaurant in Manzanita twice: halibut fish tacos for lunch, and pan-fried razor clams for dinner... both were excellent!

Plenty of restaurants, gift shops, services, library, market, and cafes in Manzanita and Rockaway Beach were open. Nice homes in Manzanita.

What to Do at Night?

Sunrise at 8 am and sunset at 5 pm. 15 hours of Darkness. [Photography at night?]

Reading books, cellphone Kindle, and writing on my ASUS laptop. Reading comfortably at night in my yurt:

The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans. By Cynthia Barnett. W.W. Norton, 2021, 432 pages. VSCL.

Nehalem Bay and Manzanita Local Information

Nehalem Bay State Park Images Google Map

Nehalem Bay State Park Wikipedia

Manzanita City Population 400. Motels, restaurants, cafes, grocery, gas, supplies. Images

Explore Manzanita

Manzanita Visitor Center

Manzanita Restaurants "You can enjoy a farm-to-table experience at several local restaurants;A Mighty Thai, Big Wave Cafe, Bread & Ocean, and Neahkahnie Bistro just to name a few. Each serves seasonal, regional items year-round. The area also features more conventional food offerings, including pizza, Mexican cuisine, casual fine dining, pies, pastries, contemporary and old-fashioned candy, ice cream and seafood."

Travel Options

Have a Great Time at the Beach

Neahkahnie Mountain Hiking trails to peak.

Neahkahnie Mountain "This peak is an inspiring place, where the Tillamook tribe believed their most powerful god resided. In fact, the name Neahkahnie comes from their words Ne ("place of") and Ekahnie {Ekone] ("supreme deity")."

Four Days in Grayland By Michael P. Garofalo. Camping and travel adventures in the Pacific Northwest.

Nehalem Valley Historical Society Museum in Manzanita

Nehalem City Population 400. Cafes, grocery, gas, supplies. Images

Nehalem Restaurants

Nehalem River 116 miles long. Images

Nehalem Bay Area Chamber of Commerce and Visitor Center in Wheeler

Oswald West State Park Wikipedia

Oswald West State Park

Lower Columbia River: Astoria to Portland, Ilwaco to Vancouver

Long Beach Peninsula

Wheeler Population 400. Images Cafes, grocery, gas, supplies.

I have camped in a Yurt at Nehalem Bay State Park five times in the last two decades.