Ocean Shores Washington
Operation Shore Patrol
Chamber of Commerce Cities of Westport/Ocean Shores/Long Beach Department of Ecology Good Sams Grays Harbor County Commissioners & Public Works Interested Citizens Merchants Associations Pacific Northwest 4-Wheel Drive Association Peninsula\Schools Retail Stores Scouts Service Clubs/VFW Lodges Tribal Nations Telephone Pioneers Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission Grass Roots Garbage Gang ... State Parks waives campsite fees for Friday and Saturday (hook-ups not included) at Cape Disappointment (Long Beach Area), Twin Harbors (South Beach Area) and Ocean City (North Beach Area) state parks for cleanup participants. Campsites are limited on a first-come, first-serve basis. To assure campsite availability, contact the 4W Drive Association Region Coordinators below at least two weeks before the event. ... [Read More]
Foster Parenting
Conference at Ocean Shores, September 25th-27th! Give us your ideas for the Annual Foster Parent and Caregivers Conference at Ocean Shores. Watch this site for more information. ... [Read More]
WDFW NEWS RELEASE: Ocean salmon season begins June 26; Some areas to offer 'pink bonus'
OLYMPIA – Summer fishing returns to the Washington coast beginning June 26 when waters off Westport and Ocean Shores (Marine Area 2) open for salmon. All other coastal waters, plus the Strait of Juan de Fuca and most of Puget Sound, will open to salmon fishing within a week’s time. ... Anglers from Ilwaco to Neah Bay will be able to take 43,250 chinook and 121,800 coho salmon this season. The ocean chinook quota is similar to ceilings in recent years, while the ocean coho quota is significantly lower than the limit for the past two years due to a lower abundance of coho. ... [Read More]
Damon Point State Park (page 1 of 2)
The Ocean Shores Interpretive Center, in the town of Ocean Shores, displays some detailed history and photos of the Point. ... Damon Point, a 61-acre day-use park, is the southeastern tip of the Ocean Shores Peninsula. The park consists of a one-mile-long, half-mile-wide stretch of land jutting out into the sea. Damon Point is a textbook example of accreted land, and is one of the few remaining nesting sites of the snowy plover. ... Take SR 109 and SR 115 to Point Brown Ave. in the town of Ocean Shores. Proceed south on Point Brown Ave. through town, approximately 4.5 miles. Just past the marina, turn left into park entrance. ... [Read More]
Ocean City State Park (page 1 of 2)
The city of Ocean Shores has an 18-hole golf course. Duck Lake is located in Ocean Shores and offers fishing, skiing and boat launch facilities. Bird watching and rock collecting are popular activities at Damon Point State Park, located near the marina on the southern end of Ocean Shores. ... Visitors may enjoy interpretive signs available throughout the park. The Ocean Shores Interpretive Center is located on the south end of Ocean Shores near the marina. It's open on the weekends from May 26 to June 30, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday and Thursday to Sunday from July 1 to Labor Day. ... [Read More]
Washington's Coast: Hazards - Erosion: Ocean Shores
Without jetties, most of Ocean Shores would not exist. In the early 1900s, jetties were built at the entrance of Grays Harbor to improve navigation. After jetty construction, sand began to collect north of the North Jetty. Many miles of land formed. Most of Ocean Shores was built on this newly accreted land. ... In recent years, erosion has increased at Ocean Shores near the Grays Harbor North Jetty. Winter storm waves attacked dunes, North Beach, 1998. ... [Read More]
Center for Tsunami Inundation Mapping Efforts
TIME is in the process of modeling tsunami events for Long Beach, Ocean Shores and Tacoma, Washington. A NOAA Technical Memorandum has been published about recent modeling in the Eastern Strait of Juan de Fuca. The latest Washington inundation maps are available through the Washington Department of Natural Resources . ... University of Washington Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean ... [Read More]
WDFW -- Region 6 - Coastal Washington
The area is rich in fish and wildlife. Unique to this region are Roosevelt elk that make their home on the Olympic Peninsula. The region also includes two major esturine environments, Grays Harbor and Willapa Bay and the most significant remaining natural prairie ecosystems, which hosts unique species of plants and animals. Bowerman Basin, an arm of Grays Harbor, is a world renown bird watching area, particulary during spring and fall shore bird migration. Ocean Shores is Washington's most unique area to watch birds; 290 species have been identified in the area--70 percent of the species that occur statewide. Fish, bald eagles, western gray squirrels, marine birds, Quilcene and Olympic oysters, and clams, including the unique geoduck clam also are found in the region. ... [Read More]
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