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CoastWatch Mile 308 County Clatsop Description Arch Cape (community), Asbury Creek Boundaries N 45° 49.147', W 123° 57.8' to N 45° 48.277', W 123° 58.018' Google Maps Nearby Roads, Directions to/from, Google photos, Satellite image, Terrain overlay OPRD Map Chapman Pt to Humbug Point (2), Hug Pt to Arch Cape 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 [No photos have been uploaded with reports for this Mile]

11 REPORTS FOR MILE 308: Jmarkham Feb 1, 2013 12:00 AM   A fine day to be on the beach, though almost nobody was. There were many washed-in clumps of fresh Nereocystis leutkeana. I saw more plastic nerdles than in several years. A landslide just south of Austin Creek had dumped an elaborate wooden stairway onto the beach, and the property owner above had posted ribbons at the top. Though no longer there, a large heavy steel plate (a ship's hold door?) earlier washed into the mouth of Arch Cape Creek. It bore many lepadomorph (stalked) barnacles, but they were too young to have been in the ocean long enough to have come from Japan.    MORE  Jmarkham Aug 1, 2012 12:00 AM   A quiet cool day at the beach.   MORE  John Markham Feb 5, 2012 12:00 AM   A beautiful spring-like day on the beach.   MORE  John Markham Sep 16, 2011 12:00 AM   A pleasant morning on a fine beach being enjoyed by a small gathering of respectful visitors. One neighbor formerly had a zig-zag stairway down to the beach from his home atop a high cliff with a storage shed at mid-level. The shed is now gone, and a new staircase in a slightly different location has replaced the older one.   MORE  Jmarkham Jul 7, 2010 12:00 AM   No evident cause for concern. There were many flies and beetles struggling on the beach. Small washed in Nereocystis, Fucus. Molts of Cancer magister and Emerita analoga, tests of Dendraster eccentricus   MORE  Jmarkham Nov 25, 2007 3:00 PM   Quiet pleasant day.   MORE  Jmarkham Jun 17, 2007 12:00 AM   Fine day on the beach, but an unsually large crowd of people.   MORE  Jmarkham May 13, 2007 12:00 AM   People enjoying beach, driftline evident.   MORE  Jmarkham Jun 1, 2006 12:00 AM   Nothing of partcular concern seen.   MORE  Jmarkham Mar 2, 2006 11:00 PM   Nothing out of the ordinary; birds seen: immature bald eagle, fledging grebe, many gulls.   MORE  Jmarkham Oct 4, 2005 12:00 AM   A few more dead birds than usual (2 western grebes, 2 immature gulls, 1 american crow, 4 common murre). Notable molts.   MORE