Mile 264
Tierra Del Mar
Tillamook County
Longitude: -123.967195231460
- Motor vehicle travel is allowed at any time from the mouth of Sand Lake (45° 16.6920', Mile 266) southerly to the base of the headland north of Cape Kiwanda (45° 13.3248', Mile 262), except as follows: From the mouth of Sand Lake (45° 16.6920', Mile 266), southerly to the approximate north boundary of Cape Kiwanda State Park property (45° 14.7900', Mile 263), motor vehicle travel is prohibited May 1 through September 30 and from sunrise to sunset on legal holidays (as defined in ORS Chapter 187) and on Saturdays and Sundays between October 1 and April 30.
2022
Warm windy afternoon. No issues to report. read more
Cloudy with incoming storm clouds on the horizon. Higher number of people on the beach than usual because of the Memorial Day weekend. Some nutjob doing vehicle donuts on the sand in the prohibited vehicle area...read more
Nice, sunny, late afternoon with few folks on the shoreline. Beach pretty clean. Concerned about the big hole someone dug which at night will cause a fall.read more
Lots of broken seashells all along the shoreline...have never seen that before. Picked up various plastic debris. It hailed this morning and rained most of the day, but the clouds cleared for about an hour late afternoon.read more
Wonderful, beach was clean, and hardly any people. Just a flock of Jonathan Livingston Seagulls. Tangy, salt scent in air and nice cloud formations with sun going down.read more
Nice sunshine brought in the crowds mostly on the vehicle allowed side of the beach. Some one dumped a pallet on the rocks near the vehicle access entrance so I got my car and hauled it away. read more
The high tides reached up into the dune faces and brought up more wood debris. Also a green trash bin washed up near the dune and was filled up with sand. I will email the ranger to pick it up off the beach.read more
Not happy with the crab shells/lemon peels left on the sand as well as the human feces. Concerned that the campfire ashes should have been covered with sand so ashes won't blow around.read more
Nice weather brought out the crowds, about 50 people. Was concerned about the 2 campfires on the beach, one of them close to the dunes and grass.read more
There was a tsunami advisory for aprox. 8:40 in the morning. I didn't witness the waves, but it seems that it came up almost to the dunes and included a large amount of micro and larger plastic along with many pyrosomes, sea pickles. Photos attached.read more
2021
Unseasonably warm for late October. Clean beach with very few people. read more
Dune removal. See photos. Also, the Facebook drilling was active with a large loud machine working. read more
2020
More cars parked at the end of Pollock Ave. than ever before and more people on the beach than previous years.read more
The large sign on the sand at marker 34B of Sitka Sedge Park warning against driving any further north on the beach has been pushed down.read more
Heavy equipment in place, noise curtains installed and removal of all vegitation on the lot, save for a few feet between shoreline and chain link fencing.read more
