Mile 189
Gwynn Cr, Neptune SP / North access, Cummins Cr
Lane County
Longitude: -124.112745463360
- Motor vehicle travel is prohibited from the Lincoln County-Lane County line (44° 16.5774', Mile 190), southerly to the Siuslaw River (44° 00.9720', Mile 170).
2022
Beautiful mostly sunny morning with wide open sandy beach due to minus tide. Little garbage on beach or pull outs even with large number of visitors. Good variety of birds, no sea mammels or washed up sea cucumbers observed. Last year's grafitti on Gwynn Creek culvert and Cumins Creek Bridge have been painted...read more
Quiet, calm day with minimal human activity, and little changes to beach or litter. Grafitti on Cummins Creek Bridge has been painted over. The leaning, unsafe tree at the entrance to North Neptune Beach is still there and caution-taped off. There are make-shift planks of wood on the ground for people to walk around it as...read more
2021
I was on the mile from 5:40 am to about 8 am. There were two cars and three people enjoying the beach near Cummins Creek. I was fortunate enough to see an octopus, a pair of oystercatchers, a river otter, and several apparently reproductive pile worms (Nereis or something like it)...read more
Graffiti covered up. Steps to beach repaired. Beach access to North Neptune rerouted around hazard tree. A fire ring near entrance to North Neptune Beach. Beach very clean other than a pallet, one piece of fence post and a beer can. Lots of visitors enjoying picnic on a beautiful day.read more
2020
Very busy with people and dogs, but beach still clean and no major problems.read more
Someone/organization has painted over the grafitti that had been sprayed all over the retaining wall under the freeway at the Gwynn Creek culvert (just north of the north Neptune Beach parking lot). The grafitti is still visible inside the culvert, and a couple of the spray painted smile faces that...read more
2019
The beach looked very clean today, save for one loose buoy floating in the surf of North Neptune parking area, and one buoy with ropes tangled around log on shore in that same general area. Unable to reach these to clean out. There was new spray painted graffiti near Gwynn Creek...read more
In general area free of significant litter, but much new graffiti spray painted at the outlet of Gwynn Creek just north of the North Neptune parking lot. Also a large graffiti painted inside the culvert at same location, though we do not know if this is new. Graffiti and firering inside large...read more
Report submitted for new volunteers GailRobbw. no dead animals 12 people on the beach evidence of someone climbing on the cliffs- carvings overnight camper in the parking lot,read more
2018
I covered the middle and southern portions of the of the mile, starting about 6:15 am. The morning tide was quite low, -2.0', but the surf was 7'-9' so beach access was out of the question along the southern rocky portion. I didn't see any other people on the southern...read more
I covered the northern portion of the mile, departing the north parking lot at Gwynn Creek at 6 am. Except for a small bit of beach access just south of Gwynn Creek this portion is up on Captain Cook's Reef. I didn't see any people along this stretch but upon my return at...read more
2017
I was on the beach between 7:25 ad 9:45 am Low tide was about 1.1' at 9:30 am. As for humans, I saw 7 people overall, 2 groups of 2, and one group of 3. Two dogs. The only activity I observed were just people waking around, enjoying and exploring. One...read more
2016
The SOLVE Beach cleaner-uppers were new for me. Sept 24 is the big SOLVE beach clean up in Oregon. There were perhaps a few more people than I am used to. This could be owing to the spectacular weather this day. The humans, except the SOLVE workers, didn't stay long...read more
2015
I hung around from about 11:15 am to 3:00 pm, hiking from the parking lot south as far as I could go, given the tide, which was nearly to the southern end of the mile, then back north onto the reef on the south bank of Gwynn Creek. I had...read more
