Pacific City Sand Dune

Route 101 and is served by the 1 875 foot long pacific city state airport owned and maintained by oregon department of aviation.

Pacific city sand dune. In fact there is no snow and the sound of waves from the pacific ocean is pounding in your ears. See 79 photos and 5 tips from 587 visitors to pacific city giant sand dune. It is surrounded by a forest of coastal mixed conifer and set pleasantly alongside the pacific ocean. It covers 1 076 acres of open sand dunes surrounded by forests and along side the pacific ocean.

Across the siuslaw river are the towering sand mounds famous for sand dune bashing. A sandy saddle allows access to the beach north of the great dune described in the sand lake cape kiwanda hike or you can plunge step slide or roll down its steep side to return to kiwanda beach. It is filled with the excitement of roaring dune buggies and other exhilarating all terrain vehicles. Pacific city is located 2 8 miles 4 5 km from u s.

Before the day warmed we decided to make the trek up pacific city s giant sand dune which is part of cape kiwanda state park. Florence is a small scenic city on the oregon coast. Wednesday brought us spectacular weather which we spent at the beach. Most people run and jump their way down but the daring hang gliders take advantage of our great updrafts the cape and warm sand make.

The pacific city resident noticed wooden posts in the sand with ropes strung. Don t let this quaint little town fool you though. A weekend on pacific coast is recreational with tons of activities. 13 tillamook county transportation district with two bus stops in pacific city offers bus service to tillamook.

It is the backdrop of cape kiwanda and makes for a fun and challenging climb to the top. Dune surfing in pacific city on the oregon coast flying down a 45 degree vertical slope on a snowboard would have you believing you are on oregon s mount hood or mount bachelor. Sand dune climbing you can t miss our mega sand dune. He said four of the homeowners had wanted to protect some dune grass from getting trampled once it was planted as.

We hiked the saddle to the left of the dune which was a little less steep but possibly no less. A few miles north of pacific city and cape kiwanda is sandlake oregon. One if the most beautiful places i have ever been.