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Harris Beach State Park, Brookings, OR

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Sports & Outdoors

Harris Beach State Park

Coastal state park on the southern Oregon shore with sea stacks, sandy and rocky beaches, trails, and year-round camping.

Brookings, OR

About Harris Beach State Park

This state park on the southern Oregon coast offers ocean views, sandy beaches, rocky shoreline, and several trails. Day visitors can picnic beside the water and look out at offshore sea stacks, including the largest island off the Oregon coast, which is a wildlife sanctuary and nesting site for tufted puffins. Viewpoints around the park are useful for spotting wildlife, and gray whales can be seen during their winter and spring migrations. The campground includes full-hookup, electrical, and tent sites, plus yurts, and it has showers, flush toilets, and a playground. The park is named for a Scottish-born settler who acquired the land around 1871.

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