Mile 243
Wecoma Beach, Lincoln City
Lincoln County
Longitude: -124.015103326640
Motor vehicle travel is prohibited from the Tillamook County-Lincoln County line (45° 02.6706', Mile 247), southerly to Yaquina Bay (44° 37.0374', Mile 215), except for the following locations within the corporate limits of Lincoln City:
(A) A distance of 150 feet on each side of the westerly extension of North 35th Court;
(B) A distance of 150 feet on each side of the westerly extension of North 15th Street.
2022
Quiet mid week day with chilly temperatures, cloudy that turned to sunny in the afternoon. High sand levels and high tides limit the width of the beach. High tides are sweeping the beaches and taking litter and logs so beaches are pretty clean. read more
Bright, sunny day after last week's pea soup-fog. Friends visiting and could not see sand from ocean front third floor balcony. This week is crystal clear. Our secret. read more
Mid week summer day: people with dogs running loose. Calm, weather app said 61 but could easily have been 70 or above. It was cooler in the Willamette Valley so winds were less here. Beach access at NW 34 and NW 15th in Lincoln City is currently blocked. Clusters of California...read more
Quiet Wednesday after the July 4th chaos. Clean-up crews on July 5 did a great job but I still hauled an overflowing big grocery bag of trash and cans. Could have filled a couple more it I had had them and the time. Lots and lots of huge logs were...read more
After very rainy weekend and very sunny Monday, Tuesday started out sunny and turned to cloudy, windy with expected rain. Significantly fewer people and dogs than anticipated. Concerned about smoldering fires and number of abandoned fire circles along the lenght of the mile. Saw my first pelicans of the season...read more
Partly cloudy with a couple of rain squals, sun, and then more clouds, more sun, med wind, wonderful day, low tide and clean beach. At NW 15th St Auto access, Lincoln City, there is sandbag reinforcement of bank. read more
Another Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. Clear skys, calm waves, clean beach, reasonable people and controled dogs. Priceless.read more
2021
Christmas Day, 2021, quiet, partly cloudy with rain promised. Signficant amount of styrofoad packing pieces, easily enough for a couple of large trash bags, lots of plastic, bottles, caps, wrappers, mystery pieces of plastic. This has been apparent the last couple of weeks and continues. Large dead sea lion next...read more
Clear, quiet mid-week day with surprisingly few people. Photo shows NW 15th Street, Lincoln City, Oregon, high sand and high tide but not at the highest tide for the day.read more
Calm people, high sand canceled out low tide for tide pooling, moderately windy summer Tuesday with marine layer that lifted about 11:00 to clear skys. read more
Mid-week calm, quiet day without disturbances or concerns. read more
Photos show new, significant erosion with a drop in the sand/grass bank of more than 6 feet in places; logs that were tossed around with comparison photo from 2019 of same location; rock bed revealed that hadn't appeared this last year. And, must have been "Drive on Wecoma Beach Day" in...read more
After very high tides, before King Tides, lovely sunny Friday. Sand level is down signficantly but clear evidence of sneaker waves.read more
2020
Bad time for Jellies. Starting at the NW 34th access, #42, for about 200 yards north, hundreds and hundreds of jelly fish on the beach. 200 or more 10"-18" and hundreds of smaller and pieces. Most look fairly fresh and some were clearly very recently beached and had not flattened...read more
Bright, sunny Monday with normal activity. Sand level is receeding somewhat based on rocks at NW 26th. read more
Mid week of very busy summer-Covid19-week on the beach with lots of groups of 8-10 people, multi-generational, 40-50 cars at NW 15th.read more
Misty, overcast cloudy day, light wind mid week but noted singificant increase in people and dogs on the beach. Lincoln City is supposed to be in Coronavirus Phase 1 with only essential travel but parks and beach access has opened. The signs the NW 34th access limiting vehicles to specific...read more
Bright, sunny Tuesday right after King Tides. Beach was scoured clean, logs rearranged and a few new ones deposited. Velella Velella were uniform in size, 3"-3.5", clear, and fairly fresh. Some erosion at MW 15th Street vehicle access but not enough to keep all cars from the beach. Maybe bette...read more
2019
Holiday week with groups of people and way too many dogs running off leash. Beach scoured by King and high tides previous few days. read more
Lovely, quiet October Monday morning. Recently there have been an increase in dead birds on the beach. Representative photo attached.read more
Overcast, slightly cooler than the rest of the week, typical summer people doing typical summer things. No drama, no crisis. High sand even at low tide limited tidepools and created bank near tideline. read more
Classic mid-week summer day with lots of people enjoying the beach. Unusual concentration of mussels on the beach for about 150 yards around NW 24th Street. Also, unusual number of small clumps of kelp along drift line and spread on beach. read more
Barefoot on the beach day with brilliant sun, clear sky and temps that felt warmer than weather app reported. Quiet waves, people casually enjoying the beach without drama or conflict. read more
Quiet Monday after busy Spring Breaks for Oregon and Washigton. Cloudy with threats of light rain. read more
Resident logs show significant movement from recent high tides: King Tides but even more high tides January 4 and 5 which were higher than King Tides. Also, numerous new logs washed up to cliffs and maybe 15-20 islands of kelp on the beach. Beach has been scoured and very few...read more
2018
Holiday week and bright, sunny, calm day translated to lots of people on the beach. Majority in family groups with one large, 20+ group. Driftline had significant plant matter, appeared to maybe be agricultural straw, spread from at least NW 30th down to D-River. read more
2017
Guided walk to document changes occuring after a storm surge. The previous week included strong waves, high surf, and over 3 inches of downpouring rain.
There was a large amount of post July 4th garbage on this beach. Including, but not limited to: bottles, cans, LOTS of firework debris, candy wrappers, plastic disposable silverware, foam pieces, human clothing, flip-flops, gloves, large gutter from a house that someone exploded fireworks inside, large coils of sharp and...read more
2016
Pretty good crowd at the beach that day. Bull kelp and surf worm castings in the wrack line. Gulls mostly grounded.read more
Gulls the only live wildlife observed,along with six beached birds. Remains of campfire also present.read more
Velella vellella in early- larval and young hydroids. 47 people on the beach, vehicles on the beach-allowedread more
Erosion of vegetated foredune, strong smell of decay from unidentified source, squid egg cases in driftline.read more
beautiful warm morning...got done before the rain came...read more
2015
Report submitted by ScienceDave.
1 dead tagged bird- leg band # 09771, 1 untagged dead bird. Cellophane worm casings in drifline along with plastic and rope collected approximately 10 lbs of debris.read more
