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CoastWatch Mile 307 County Clatsop Description Cove Beach north, Arch Cape, Arch Cape Creek Boundaries N 45° 48.277', W 123° 58.018' to N 45° 47.418', W 123° 58.087' Google Maps Nearby Roads, Directions to/from, Google photos, Satellite image, Terrain overlay OPRD Map Arch Cape to Neahkahnie Mountain Vehicles • Motor vehicle travel is prohibited between the beach ramp at Gearhart (46° 01.8570', Mile 326), southerly to the Clatsop County-Tillamook County line (45° 46.9902', Mile 306), except as follows: Operation or parking of motor vehicles used for and engaged in towing dory boat trailers or essential dory boat launchings from Sunset Drive (45° 53.2830', Mile 313) in Cannon Beach southerly to Warren Way (45° 52.3566', Mile 312) with access from Warren Way only. • There is hereby established a 15 MPH maximum speed limit within those areas of the ocean shore where motor vehicle travel is permitted. Said speed limitation shall extend from Ecola Creek to Arch Cape in Clatsop County, Oregon. 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 Low Tide Mile 307   5/25/13 Bald Eagle

45 REPORTS FOR MILE 307: Bald Eagle May 25, 2013 8:30 AM   Three of the six people digging for clams were involved in digging, the others were watching. The beach was clean. There were some clam shells on the beach along with several sand dollars. The low tide exposed much more sand than normal. See picture.   MORE    Low Tide Mile 307    Location: COVE BEACH - Mile 307 elsecobb Mar 15, 2013 10:45 AM   More sand than usual this time of year. Clean beach. Much more sand also North of the Arch Cape. Increased erosion below 79544 Ray Brown Road, as well as below 31849 Clatsop Lane stretching South to below31841 Clatsop lane. A basement door in 31849 Clatsop Lane was wide open (seemingly forced open), no one was home, so I closed it. No murres or other birds yet on the Gull Rocks.   MORE  Bald Eagle Mar 3, 2013 11:00 AM   A different looking float has washed on shore. It is about six feet by three feet by two and one half feet. The corners are broken off exposing the styrofoam core. It has a smooth cement coating that is about 3/4 inch thick. The coating is thicker on the corners. Some shell fragments are still attached. There are no markings on the float. This may be from Japan. I took two pictures. I will attach the photos when I get back to Beaverton on 3/4/13. The float is located about 1/4 mile north of the Clatsop Lane access trail in Cove Beach. It is on the rocks below the bluff with the yellow house. It is far enough away from the ocean that it will not be washed away.   MORE    unusual float    Date: Mar 3, 2013 12:00 AM unusual float    Date: Mar 3, 2013 12:00 AM unusual float    Bald Eagle Dec 14, 2012 12:30 PM   I observed the King tide. It was windy and cool with some sun breaks. The high tide did not reach the high levels I have seen when there is a storm surge at high tide. The shoreline looked normal. There was very little debris other than small pieces of drift wood. There are two bluff areas that normally see small landslides after heavy rain. There were several small slides at these bluff areas.   MORE  Bald Eagle Sep 20, 2012 10:00 AM   Most of the beach looked normal. The only change I saw was dark streaks on the sand at the south end of mile 307. There were streaks and dark areas over an area about 100 yards long north to south and up to 40 feet wide east to west. The stains were in the sand to a depth between 1/4 to 1/2 inch in depth. I guess that the stains were from an oil spill.   MORE  elsecobb Aug 21, 2012 10:30 AM   I have not seen so much sand in and around the Arch Cape in decades. At a +0.4 tide one can easily walk around the outside (west) side of the Cape. The Cove beach side has much sand deposited as well, covering most beach rocks. Healthy abundant mussel growth. Few sea birds, some pelicans on the Bird Rocks.   MORE  elsecobb Jun 13, 2012 11:00 AM   Noticed considerably more cliff erosion below the residences from 31841 to 31849 Clatsop lane. Several young bald eagles cavorting in the sky.   MORE    bluff erosion    Description: Continued bluff erosion/slide Bald Eagle Jun 9, 2012 11:00 AM   There was a lot of styrofoam and plastic bottles on the rocks. The beach was in good condition. It was a nice day on mile 307.   MORE  Bald Eagle Mar 9, 2012 7:45 AM   The shoreline rock berm has been reshaped by the ocean. Two areas had rocks removed allowing the high tide waves to erode the soil bluffs. Bluff erosion was mininal. Some styrofoam, misc. plastic and three plastic floats were collected. One of the floats was made in China. One bald eagle was observed later in the day.   MORE  Bald Eagle Dec 17, 2011 3:30 PM   There were no birds on the beach or Gull Rock. Nothing unusual on the beach. There continues to be small slides of soil from the high bluffs. One house foundation is about 12 feet from the edge of the high bluff(about 20 feet).   MORE  elsecobb Dec 7, 2011 11:00 AM   More erosion of bluff in front of 31841 and 31849 Clatsop Lane. 4 Brown pelicans diving for fish One Bald Eagle (immature)   MORE    erosion of bluff    Location: in front of 31841 and 31849 Clatsop Lane, mile 307 elsecobb Jul 1, 2011 7:00 AM   Healthy beach at minus tide. More sand washed in. I could walk around as well as through the Arch Cape. @100 pelicans sitting on and circling Castle Rock, Noted: Absence of the Common Murres which in other years "nest" by the hundreds on the Bird Rocks. Not a single one visible so far this year.   MORE  Bald Eagle Mar 20, 2011 8:30 AM   A little breezy. Nice morning. 7 seagulls. The small shoreline rocks have been rearanged as usual. The high banks have lost a little soil to the ocean. Everything was normal for the first day of spring.   MORE  elsecobb Mar 12, 2011 2:00 PM   No noticeable Tsunami damage. Considerable wash-out of bluff below 79885 and 79554 Ray Brown Road. Rock berm washed away, exposing orange and gray clay in the hillside. Muddy surf eating away soil and clay.   MORE  elsecobb Dec 31, 2010 1:00 PM   Still a lot of sand all along this mile, at a -0.5 tide, "reef' exposed. People clambering over rocks through the Arch Cape Arch. Increasing erosion of the bluff below 31845 and 31841 Clatsop Lane.   MORE  Bald Eagle Dec 12, 2010 11:00 AM   Today was very windy (20-25 mph) with about an inch of rain. There was no sand at low tide. There were about 20 seagulls on the rocks. The shoreline looked normal.   MORE  Bald Eagle Sep 12, 2010 9:30 AM   There were between 1,000 and 1,500 sea gulls on or near the beach. Some of the gulls were feeding on something in the water 50 to 150 feet from the shoreline.   MORE  elsecobb Aug 9, 2010 7:00 AM   Low sand, fewer brown pelicans that last year, (@ 5-15 this morning, either fishing or resting on Bird Rocks. Healthy tide pools. One tufted puffin in the surf around the rocks surrounding the Arch Cape.   MORE  Bald Eagle Jun 5, 2010 4:00 PM   A nice day on the beach. I saw one bald eagle perched on a spruce tree near the shoreline. Some bluff slides were observed just north of Cedar Creek. The ocean continues to move the rocks of the rock berm. A large area of rocks were moved to the south end of mile 307 and the north end of mile 306 during the last few months.   MORE  Bald Eagle Apr 8, 2010 4:00 PM   The beach and shoreline looked normal. The only unusual item was a large amount of plastic bottles and plastic floats that had washed up onto the rocks. A strong west wind during the previous 24 hours brought this material on shore.   MORE  elsecobb Mar 7, 2010 1:00 PM   Clean beach, no pelicans anymore, lagoon now 3/4 filled with drift wood tossed over the rock berm. Much brown algae in surf. Further serious erosion of bluff below 31841 and 31845 Ray Brown Road. Whale spouts,1 bald eagle, 1 hawk. Sand loss about 2-3 vertical feet north and South of the Arch Cape.   MORE  elsecobb Dec 31, 2009 12:30 PM   This is not my mile (I cover mile #307). But it is a serious situation where a house is ready to fall down the bluff in a matter of days, weeks at the most. #306 mile watcher might take note of this.   MORE    house slide in Cove Beach    Description: After years of bluff erosion a house is now almost falling to the beach Location: Cove Beach Road Date: Dec 31, 2009 12:00 AM Bald Eagle Dec 12, 2009 4:00 PM   It was a nice day on the beach. I saw 5 seals playing near Gull Rock. One bald eagle flew over head. I counted 11 brown pelicans on Gull Rock. On the following day I counted 160 pelicans flying south. The recent storms continue to move the sand out to sea.   MORE  elsecobb Nov 27, 2009 2:00 PM   Large amounts of "spume" along the tideline delivered by the waves north of the Arch Cape; none South of the Cape. Loss of @ 4-5 vertical feet of sand North as well as south of the Arch Cape. Further erosion of the bluff below 31839, 31845 and 31841 Clatsop Lane. Still about 50 pelicans resting and fishing on and around the bird Rocks.   MORE  Bald Eagle Oct 24, 2009 10:30 AM   There was no foam on the shoreline of mile 307. No dead birds. There were about 30 brown pelicans on Gull Rock (South end of mile 307). In the afternoon I walked from the Arcadia Wayside to Hug Point and there was none of the harmful foam. There was a little white foam. No dead birds. Later in that afternoon, I was in Ecola Park. I did not go on the beach but from the view points I didn't see any foam or dead birds on Cresent or Indian Creek beaches.   MORE  Bald Eagle Sep 11, 2009 9:00 AM   There were two other people on the beach and they each had two dogs. There were a few crab shells. It was a beautiful day on the beach. There was more sand along the shoreline then I have seen for several years.   MORE  elsecobb Sep 1, 2009 7:00 AM   Still very much sand, however @ 3 vertical feet lower than in July by the Arch Cape. The razor clams have returned to Cove Beach after an absence of @ 20-25 years! Mussels are off limits along the whole OR coast due to domoic acid presence. A 7 feet long dead Steller's Sea Lion washed ashore. Recently killed by 3-5 bullets. It was reported. A necropsy was done.   MORE  Bald Eagle Jun 7, 2009 7:30 AM   It was a beautiful morning on the beach. The two bald eagles perched in the spruce tree were exciting to see. The sand levels seem to be higher than usual for this early in the year. I saw two pairs of bald eagles in the air yesterday (6-6-09). I also saw about 40 brown pelicans flying along the coast.   MORE  Bald Eagle Mar 16, 2009 11:00 AM   A dead harbor porpoise was found on the south end of the rocks on mile 307. The high bank near the Clatsop lane access continues to erode in small chunks after heavy rain and high tides. The ocean has been moving the small rocks towards the south on to mile 306.   MORE  elsecobb Mar 6, 2009 3:00 PM   There is more sand South of the Arch Cape. (not North). The bluff erosion areas are below 31845 and 31841 Clatsop Lane. Several large jelly fish (11-12" diam) beached North of the Arch Cape.   MORE  Bald Eagle Dec 31, 2008 11:00 AM   There is nothing unusual to report about mile 307. I saw one bald eagle and 10 pelicans on 12-31-08.   MORE  elsecobb Nov 23, 2008 12:00 AM   Many brown pelicans, and continued erosion of bluffs.   MORE  Bald Eagle Sep 6, 2008 11:00 AM   The high number of pelicans observed is normal for August. The low sand level on the North end of mile 307 is not normal. I continue to see one or two bald eagles in the area on a frequent basis.   MORE  elsecobb Aug 20, 2008 10:00 AM   Sand level very low compared to last year this time. Clean beach when sand is exposed at minus tides. More bluff erosion, exposing ancient tree trunks and roots.   MORE  Bald Eagle Jul 4, 2008 10:00 AM   The beach looks normal for this time of year. I have observed dozens of brown pelicans recently. About two weeks ago, I saw three mature bald eagles. One of them picked up a live seagull and took it near Gull Rock and dropped it in the water. The Common Murres are nesting on Gull Rock.   MORE  elsecobb May 6, 2008 5:00 PM   Thanks to the very low minus tide, some "reefs" became visible on the beach at about the middle of mile 307.Great tide pools. Seeing the Harlequin ducks at the Arch Cape was a treat! Much sea weed covered rock north of the Arch Cape, due to very low sand level impossible to get around the Cape.   MORE  Bald Eagle Mar 16, 2008 4:00 PM   Ocean erosion continues on high banks near access point, and Bald Eagles continue to be observed.   MORE  elsecobb Feb 26, 2008 10:30 AM   Continued serious erosion of hill side in several places and considerable sand loss. Clean beach.   MORE  Bald Eagle Jan 10, 2008 2:30 PM   The erosion/movement of the small rocks on the shore line was more severe than normal. This action was caused by the large swells, large waves and high tides.   MORE  Bald Eagle Sep 13, 2007 12:00 AM   Looks very good today, with no activity.   MORE  elsecobb Aug 24, 2007 12:00 AM   Very low sand levels, especially south of Arch Cape. Healthy beach and tidepools at low tides. Exceptional large # of Brown Pelicans on and close to shore and on the large Gull Rock. *Outside my mile territory: about 100-200 Red Phalaropes flitting on the sewage ponds in Cannon Beach(8-20-07)   MORE  elsecobb Jun 10, 2007 5:00 PM   Beach looks clean, brownish surf due to algae in June. Eagle flies by frequently. Some pelicans. Very low tides and low sand level in May exposed reef-like structures with tide pools filled with sea anemones, some starfish, little shrimp and other water critters.   MORE  Bald Eagle Jun 7, 2007 11:50 AM   The sand level is a little lower than last year at this time and the rocks in the rock berm continue to be moved around by the ocean. One bald eagle landed in a spruce tree high on the hillside.   MORE  Bald Eagle Mar 18, 2007 4:00 AM   Nothing unusual. Some sand coming back in. One bald eagle flying north to Arch Cape.   MORE  elsecobb Feb 24, 2007 3:00 PM   Erosion of the bluff seems main concern. Clearcutting of large tracts of land almost directly in back ( to the East) of these slides may or may not have contributed to this. The bluffs are unstable in their layers of clay and sand when winters are wet.   MORE