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Lost Creek State Recreation Site, Newport, OR

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Sports & Outdoors

Lost Creek State Recreation Site

A coastal Oregon state recreation site about seven miles south of Newport, set up for picnicking and beach access.

Newport, OR

About Lost Creek State Recreation Site

This Oregon State Parks site sits roughly seven miles south of Newport on the central coast. Its facilities focus on picnic areas and reaching the beach. Visitors often come to comb the shoreline, watch for whales, and enjoy sunsets. The land was first given in 1933 to protect shore pine and other vegetation and to keep the beach open to the public, and more land was added through 1967. Earlier, a railroad that hauled Sitka spruce logs once ran through the area between 1918 and 1920.

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