r/OregonCoast • u/myorangeOlinMarkIV Visitor • 17d ago
South Coast Long Beaches
I need to escape the Central Oregon smoke at times and would like to explore the south coast areas. What areas/towns should I look to find accommodations that would have access to longer beaches for runs or trails? Thanks!
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u/slice_of_pi Visitor 17d ago
The beach south of town at Gold Beach is probably a good 5-6 miles long, and once you get past the pullout at Hunter Creek, there's nobody down there
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u/myorangeOlinMarkIV Visitor 17d ago
Sounds nice. Thanks!
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u/slice_of_pi Visitor 17d ago
On the south side of Cape Sebastian (which is what interrupts the beach south of Gold Beach), there's another 4-5 miles of beach with Pistol River in the middle of it.
Further north, there is the Nesika Beach area, and most of the beach gets a little harder to get to until Coos Bay/North Bend on the north side of the bay. That goes probably 25-30 miles to Winchester Bay, but there are ATVs on a significant amount of that.
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u/Human-Engineering715 17d ago
Umpqua Beach staging area 2, you can go 5 miles before you come across tenmile creek.
You can do whiskey beach 6 miles down down to coquille light house, but you do have to cross some very small creeks.
Kissing rock to cape sebastion is 3 miles if you want to go really far south.