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CoastWatch Mile 299 County Tillamook Description South end Manzanita Beach Boundaries N 45° 42.873', W 123° 56.397' to N 45° 42.042', W 123° 56.356' Google Maps Nearby Roads, Directions to/from, Google photos, Satellite image, Terrain overlay OPRD Map Neahkahnie Mountain to Nehalem River Vehicles • Motor vehicle travel is prohibited from the south line of Oswald West State Park (45° 44.4000', Mile 301), southerly to the north boundary of Nehalem Bay State Park (45° 42.2196', Mile 299), except as follows: (A) Between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 12:00 noon, October 1 through April 30; (B) Motor vehicles essential to and engaged in boat launchings will be allowed any time during the year. • There is hereby established a 15 MPH maximum speed limit within those areas of the ocean shore where motor vehicle travel is permitted pursuant to OAR 736-024-0015 within the city limits of Manzanita, in Tillamook County, Oregon. • Motor vehicle travel is prohibited from the north boundary of Nehalem Bay State Park (45° 42.2196', Mile 299), southerly to the south boundary of the Boy Scout property north of Sand Lake (45° 18.6444', Mile 268), except as follows: Motor vehicles essential to and engaged in boat launchings will be allowed any time during the year for a distance of 300 feet northwest from (45° 26.4036' 123° 57.2052', Mile 279), near Happy Camp. Weather Current Weather Conditions at nearby stations (may take a minute or two on a dialup connection) Tides The NOAA Tide Predictions site may be found here. Click on the station nearest to your location to see predicted tides in graphical and tabular formats. Photo Recent Beach Grass Planting   4/18/10 Beach grass planted where dunes have been bulldozed. hallee

16 REPORTS FOR MILE 299: hallee May 19, 2011 5:00 PM   Only six people were on the beach. The small plastic pieces found at high tide line had been in the water for a long time. There was lots of dried beach grass from the newly grassed area around marker 17. The dune leveling that is done every few years in front of houses on this mile seems to be doing what they want.....keeping the dunes from hiding the ocean views of houses. It was unusual to see a California ground squirrel on the beach. Unusual to us to see one in the area. And what was he doing down in the surf? We found him at ocean edge. We will ask our park ranger friends and others about this.   MORE    looking south    Description: looking south on mile 299, photo shows the leveling of the foredunee of last year's bulldozed dunes in front of houses Location: mile 299 looking North    Description: looking north. NeahKahNie Mountain in distance California Gray Squirrel    Description: California Gray Squirrel (Grey Digger?) found at water line at start line area of State Park Location: mile 299 hallee Oct 8, 2010 12:00 AM   A quiet day on mile 299. Recent winds had scoured beach so not much debris of any kind. The recent invasion of "salps" wasn't very obvious now. Most had washed away. photos to follow   MORE  hallee Jun 24, 2010 9:00 PM   A windy evening with mostly clear sky but big fog bank out over the ocean blocking the sunset. A loose fitting lenticular cloud system over NeahKahNie Mountain with clouds trailing out of the mountain gaps. The almost full moon had just risen! 12 people (with four dogs) were seen. Mostly strolling and enjoying the sunset/moonrise. One woman was riding a horse. The beach was windblown all day so there wasn't much man-made or natural debris to be found on the sand. Usual pebbles, pieces of shell (razor clam, Mussel, Sand Dollar, Dungeness Crab, Oyster, etc.) A few individual feathers. A few pieces of plastic. The interesting man-made change on mile 299 is the dune modification done in April 2010. The dunes in front of beach houses from Beach Access 7 to 9 were bull-dozed and beach grass was planted. This is done every few years to a section of the intruding dunes. (Estimated distance done would be 1/10 of the mile.) Permits have been granted.   MORE    dune modification in action    Description: bulldozer flattening dunes between Beach Access 7 and 9 Location: Beach access #7 Date: Apr 8, 2010 12:00 AM Recent Beach Grass Planting    Description: Beach grass planted where dunes have been bulldozed. Location: Beach access #9 Date: Apr 18, 2010 9:00 PM fog bank at sunset    Description: fog bank over ocean.... Manzanita Beach hallee Feb 21, 2010 11:30 AM   This was one of those "jewel" winter days at the coast in Oregon. People were basking in the sun. Sitting in beach chairs or on the sand or on logs. Walking along.....playing with dogs and children. Waves were good sized but the ocean was calm. The sand was smooth without much to beachcomb. There were a few feathers and crab pieces and razor clam shells. Bits of seaweed and small sticks. We picked up the usual: an empty water bottle, a few candy wrappers, old pieces of plastic and plastic rope, cigar tips. Not much at all. Winter storms have left some big logs along the mile. See photo of the cottonwood. Someone has been harvesting firewood from logs. They get permission from city and/or state park.   MORE    view to north (Neahkahnie Mt.) from Mile 299    Location: from Mile 299 looking north huge cottonwood log on beach, cedar nearby    don't tell anyone that this is Feb.    Date: Feb 21, 2010 12:00 AM hallee Nov 24, 2009 1:00 PM   Beautiful, calm, warm day. Few people around. Beachcombing interesting because of recent storms. * There were at least ten recently beached big driftwood logs. One a well worn cedar. Also smaller logs and pieces of wood that had been in the water a long time. Some with Pelagic Goose Barnacles and/or other barnacles on them. * We picked up small pieces of plastic and pieces of rope. Five water bottles, bottle caps, Bic lighter, balloon scraps, small pieces of styrofoam, candy bar wrappers (from Halloween?) *The dead fish (salmon, tuna, flatfish and eel?) were unusual. *Dead Northern Fulmars weren't a surprise because we had seen them last year and knew it was happening again this year.   MORE  hallee Sep 14, 2009 6:00 PM   Now that it is mid-September there aren't many people around. This was a warm but foggy sunset walk. A hole in the clouds/fog overhead opened up and it was very pleasant and beautiful. A woman jogged by with her dog. Several couples were exercise walking. Others were strolling and photographing the sunset. Above the driftline there were tracks from horses and dogs that had been on the beach earlier. Also tracks of the low tricycles that one can rent on Laneda Avenue. And lots of footprints from earlier beachgoers. There was lots of green surf grass or eelgrass in the driftline but not much else of any size. The surf has been unusually rough the last few days, hence the seaweed being washed up. There were the usual bits of shells of limpets, mussels, oysters, Dungeness crabs and sand dollars. Also the usual array of small rocks and pretty stones. The big pieces of driftwood up higher on the beach have been mostly buried by the strong winds of summer. There were a couple of interesting freshly washed up pieces of wood. One a big square beam about 10 feet long. The most intriguing is a huge piece of a log (approx 15 feet long and 2.5 feet in diameter which looks as if it was half of a donkey sled used for logging. It is well worn and has iron pieces embedded in it. We only found a few pieces of trash. A Kleenex, a paper cup, an "Egg Beaters" box, a broken sand shovel. A good thing to report is that we didn't see very much horse manure. We didn't have a horse rental business at the park this summer, just the horses from the horse campground.   MORE    sandcastle looking north on mile 299    Description: Manzanita Beach looking toward NeaKahNie Mountain and Cape Falcon Location: mile 299 view of mile 299 from NeahKahie Mt. peak    Description: Looking from top of NeahKahNie Mountain you can see where the dune modification has seemed to work to flatten the dunes in front of the houses along mile 299. Location: looking down on mile 299 hallee Jun 10, 2009 8:00 PM   There was a big fogbank out over the ocean which blocked out the sun in this hour before sunset. Six people (4 adults and 2 children) and one dog were on mile 299. Earlier beach goers had created several beach "sculptures" from driftwood. Also someone had created a sort of "offering" in the sand. It was about the size and shape of a sombrero. There was a pretty stick in the middle and crab claws and pinchers carefully arranged in a circle all around. Within the last six months a sign has been placed on the beach (about twenty feet toward the surf from the dunes) at the spot where Nehalem Bay State Park begins. It tells people NO VEHICLES beyond that point. It will also help people stay oriented. There is better signage now but it used to be difficult to know where you had come down onto the beach. There are now some poles marking the campground entrances. And, here in Manzanita, there are numbered poles at beach access points. In case mile 300 reporters didn't have this information I will report that an elk carcass (young bull) floated up on the beach on Mile 300 at the end of Laneda Avenue on May 26. Early morning viewers reported several coyotes had been down to check it out. The city of Manzanita buried the carcass. It has been windy lately so much driftwood has been covered and there are small wind shaped dunes. Lots of tiny pieces of clam and sanddollar shells and little bits of seaweed were in the driftline. The remnants of at least 10 crabs had been scattered about by birds. There were the usual pebbles and rocks. Up in the dry dunes wind had exposed a few areas that had lots of the little plastic pieces.   MORE  JCampf Aug 23, 2008 9:00 AM    [NO EMAIL] Heavy human use (89) on a sunny Saturday morning. Walking, sitting, photography, horseback riding, frisbee, soccer.   MORE  hallee Jul 13, 2008 10:30 AM   This was a beautiful Sunday morning in Manzanita. There was a big fog bank out at sea and it looked like there might be fog from Barview south and from Cape Falcon north. Considering that there were multitudes of people in town for the Fourth of July last week, the beach was very clean. We only found a few pieces of fireworks litter.   MORE    Heermann's Gulls    Description: Heermann's Gulls on Manzanita Beach. Castle and Runner    Description: Running north towards Neahkahnie Mountain, a runner passes a sand castle. fishnet on Manzanita Beach, mile 300 looking in direction of 299    Description: This huge, entangled fishing net floated up on Manzanita Beach this morning. It took four people to pull it up off of the beach. The net is blue and it is attached to huge white rope. Ten or fifteen other small pieces of different colored rope are entwined in the net, along with some fishing line. It is pretty tightly twisted together so only a few sticks were caught up in it. Looks to have been afloat for quite awhile. We have plans to ask some fishermen about it. Location: Almost directly west of Manzanita Avenue on mile 300. looking South from mile 299    Description: Looking South from mile 299. Shows how much of the driftwood brought in by storms of last winter has already been bleached and buried. Beach visitors have built various play forts and wind shelters. Some wood has been burned in beach bonfires, especially up in the area north of the state park. Location: directly West of day use area in Nehalem Bay State Park hallee Mar 20, 2008 11:00 AM   Still lots of driftwood from winter storms. Not much litter. The surf was pounding. Someone had drawn outlines of two big kitties in the sand. Perhaps Easter Kitties?   MORE    Manzanita Beach Looking North    Description: view north to Neahkahnie Mountain from mile 299 Date: Feb 24, 2008 11:00 AM hallee Feb 6, 2008 8:00 AM   This was a calm morning after another storm, lots of fresh driftwood on beach. A big black Plastic float, usual water bottles, pieces of rope and plastic (but not too much). Only people were a retired couple from Vancouver, Canada who are camped in the State Park. They are heading to Mexico. The sand dunes were wind sculpted hard and easy to walk on. Beach grass planted last summer seemed to all be there, even if moved around and buried a bit. Not much bird activity.   MORE    view north mile 299    Description: looking toward NeahKahNie Mountain from mile 299 washed up building material    Description: There were at least 15 pieces of lumber like his along the mile. Off of a ship? Location: mile 299 beach houses    Description: these houses are right at north end of mile 299. The bigger one is a vacation rental. Smaller one might be. I was told recently that here are 270 houses in vacation rental in Manzanita now. There doesn't seem to be a push for bigger construction such as motels along beach but houses are getting bigger. Still nothing compared to other parts of country. new handicap beach access    Description: This handicap beach access ramp has been in planning stages for a few years. It is at the end of Laneda Avenue (Mile 300). It is still under construction and has already been storm tested. Location: Laneda Avenue, Manzanita Date: Feb 6, 2008 12:00 AM hallee Aug 11, 2007 9:00 AM   This was the annual Manzanita Beach 5K and 10K run/walk. Over 100 people participated in both runs and there were a total of 200 people present, as either volunteers or family or friends, as well as many other people on the beach, completely oblivious to this event. Markers were set out as well as an aid station at the middle of our mile, all of which were removed, leaving only the footprints of the exercising participants as evidence that this actually happened.   MORE    Runners in the Manzanita 5K and 10K runs    Location: at the foot of Laneda Av, Manzanita, OR on the beach Date: Aug 11, 2007 12:00 AM JCampf Jun 20, 2007 2:00 PM    [NO EMAIL] Gulls (100 in varying groups). Moderate human use: 60 adults, 6 kids.   MORE  hallee Jun 12, 2007 8:00 PM   Area's population is growing. Lots of "ocean-close" houses are owned by weekenders. Locals are busy with issues such as affordable housing and working and school. Houses are being super-sized and more houses, condos and stores are being built. The beach is used by kite-flyers (fliers), wind-surfers, beach buggy renters, horseback riders, dog-walkers, walkers, runners, sitters, sand-castle builders, bonfire builders, and on and on. It is amazing how much of the time during the year it is so peaceful.   MORE    Mile 299    Description: walkers beginning mid-day stroll.... starting at Nehalem Bay State Park Campground walking north to southern end of Manzanita village. NeahKahNie Mountain in distance in fog. Mile 299 Date: Apr 16, 2007 12:00 AM Mile 299 from NeahKahNie Mountain    Description: looking south from NeahKahNie Overlook on Hwy 101 Date: Apr 10, 2007 8:00 PM drift-rope    Description: pieces of "drift-rope" beachcombed on Manzanita Beach after storms Feb-April 2007 Date: May 2, 2007 8:00 PM JCampf Apr 27, 2007 3:00 PM    [NO EMAIL] Light human use: 9 adults, 3 children. 11 walking, 1 kite flying.   MORE  hallee Feb 24, 2007 12:00 PM   We've had 5 beached sea lions on Manzanita Beach since Oct. Those are all we happen to know about. People who came upon the beached sea lion over the days it was there read the signs and treated it with respect - they were curious. And glad to know it was monitored. Dunes on half of mile were "stabilized" 10 - 15 years ago. Seems to be holding. Sand dune area seems to have survived winter storms ok.   MORE