Mile 335

Columbia Beach, Coffenbury Lake, Fort Stevens SP
Clatsop County

Latitude: 46.167475027324
Longitude: -123.974175073280
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  • Motor vehicle travel is allowed at any time between the Peter Iredale Road (46° 10.6950', Mile 336), southerly to the beach ramp at Gearhart (46° 01.8570', Mile 326).
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Columbia Beach, Coffenbury Lake, Fort Stevens SP
Mile 335 Reports (36)

2017

January 23, 2017 - srhoads

Beautiful day, peaceful. Lots of people on the beach, especially at the Peter Iredule just north of mile 335. The dunes are building-up.read more

  • Rebuilding of dunes
  • Natural dune reconstruction, evidence of vehicle traffic

2016

November 16, 2016 - srhoads

Beautiful day, light breeze. Tide pretty high. Thin wrack line with lots of worm castings. LOTS of dead birds, small, medium and large. Dunes wind blown. Lots of micro plastics and big pieces of styrofoam. Didn't add my photos. Guess they exceed 2 MB. Not sure what to do about...read more

  • cellophane worm casings
  • Northern Fulmar
  • Sanderlings in the surf zone
October 23, 2016 - srhoads

Beautiful morning. Sun at times, warm wind, lots of worm castings and dead Northern Fulmars. Not to much litter.read more
September 26, 2016 - srhoads

Beautiful day. Lots of human activity: riding horses, playing ball, walking or playing with dogs, family picnics, climbing on vegetated dunes, and one fishing. Lots of tire tracks near wrack line. Tube worm castings along shoreline.  Dead birds:  four older half-covered in sand and 2 recent (an adult Common Murre...read more
July 19, 2016 - srhoads

Nice windy, sunny day. Beach pretty quiet, and fairly clean. Some plastics, bottles, left over fireworks, baby wipes, food wrapper, etc. Seems to be local and regional stuff.read more
June 5, 2016 - srhoads

Beautiful morning; calm, light wind. Lots of clam diggers and cars. Not much disturbance on the dunes. Some replanted European beachgrass near wrack line. Wrack line had mainly small natural stuff in it. Small amount of debris, mainly plastic bottles manufactured in the U.S. Lots of fire pits, some still...read more

  • People, vehicles, wood, and dune.
  • Small wrack line, small size debris.
  • Someone replanted the grass near wrack line.
  • Feathers, some up-dwelling debris, grass, seaweed, small amount of man made plastics, casting, pieces of shells.
  • Smoldering fires, mainly all burning on large to med logs.
  • Dunes mainly intact through mile 335.
  • Clam diggers
  • Or should I say NON-activity, truck, trailer
  • Small fish net, plastic.
  • A variety of stuff.
April 17, 2016 - srhoads

Beautiful warm day. Lots of human activity and vehicles. Collected a quantity of human and fishing debris, 2 pairs of sandals. Still finding tsunamis debris. No glass bottles today. Activity in dunes; forts, tunnels, climbing. Erosion...dunes siding and new roots. Scattered wood and lots of old decayed "By the Wind...read more

  • Cars, trucks, SUVs and people on beach.
  • Plastic bottle.
  • Asian writing on back.
  • Looks like something from a washing machine or boat.
  • Lots of plastics, cups, bowls, lighters, bottles. Also fish nets, ropes, filters, etc.
  • Dunes giving way and fresh roots.
  • Found tunnels in dunes
  • Old "By the Wind Sailors" along wrack line. Also crab castings, shells, and other natural debris.
  • Climbing dunes, building forts out of driftwood.
  • Found 2 sets of sandals that visitors left.
  • Picked up 2 bags and a large piece of styrofoam. Left at Peter Iredale entrance.
March 30, 2016 - mnfwhite

Sunny mild day with little wind. Counted 18 cars parked at the access point (Peter Iredale), 16 cars on the beach, and 26 people, more than half of whom were sitting or playing in the sand. A few were willing to actually try wading in the cold surf, 7 in...read more

March 10, 2016 - admin

Survey taken after a big storm. Enormous amounts of plastics and debris, more than I've even seen before. Too much to pick it all up. I concentrated on macro-plastics, bottles, and fishing gear; 2 bags full. Surprised NOT to see any dead birds or other species on beach. A couple...read more

  • Bags of bottles, fishing gear, shoes, and macro-plastics.
  • High water at entrance to beach
  • Dune erosion- cut back of vegetation.
  • Dog walking
  • Variety of beach debris
  • Massive amounts of micro-plastics
  • Barnacles, I believe these are native or universal
  • Light blue plastic bottle. Looked up; from Germany. Nivea Hair Care Stock
  • Tropicana Plastic Bottle, Asian writing on bottle cap
  • Tropicana Plastic Bottle, Asian writing on lower part
  • Writing on front and back of lighter. Looked up; Leopoldo Romanach Coleccion De Arte Cubano
  • Glass bottle, Asian Writing on front top and bottle.
  • Glass bottle, Asian writing
  • Small blue float with Asian writing.
  • Small Blue Asian Float
  • Small Asian Float, Oregon Shore
  • Blue plastic bottle with Asian writing, clear plastic bottle with Asian writing on cap and lower edge, lighter (Cuba), glass bottle with Asian writing, and small blue float with Asian writing.
January 10, 2016 - srhoads

Beautiful day. Small amount of people at the beach, mostly clam diggers. A great amount of mirco and macro plastics and bottles. Some fishing equipment, ropes and nets. Other man made items, 3 tooth brushes and 2 sandles. Found one glass bottle, maybe from Russia. Horse tracks. Down the beach...read more

  • High tide line. A multitude of items on the beach.
  • Micro and macro plastics, Styrofoam.
  • Might be Russian. Anyone know?
  • horse tracks
  • Clam diggers who don't want to get in the water!
  • There was a lot of fiberous material in the surf.
  • Fire Balls.

2015

November 2, 2015 - srhoads

Overall a nice day, cloudy with some openings of sunshine. Beach scattered with natural material, seaweed, wood, shells, etc. One recently washed up brown pelican (eaten body). Lots of large moon jellies. Ocean rough, large waves and updwelling material. Found 4 small sunfish just north of the Sunset Beach access...read more

  • Beach debris
  • Dune pathway
  • Large Moon jelly
  • Lots of rich sea updwelling.
  • Head off
  • Debris
August 15, 2015 - srhoads
Nice day, lots of activity north at the Peter Iredale. Quieter on my mile. Small amount and pieces of native debris. Calm with light breeze. Some dead birds, thought they were Cassin Auklets, but might of been Common Murres.read more
May 24, 2015 - srhoads
Pretty nice day. Not much left behind from the tide. Busy beach. just a small amount of shells, small rocks, wood, and algae. There was a bag with army colors and writing and a black glove. One beer can. One log cut by chainsaw.No dead birds or mammals. Old dry...read more
  • Pics for the day.
  • cut with chainsaw.
  • Down the beach from my survey site. Probably strawberry null.
April 27, 2015 - mnfwhite
Pleasantly warm day with quite a few people enjoying the warm weather, sunning themselves or wading in the surf (21 people and 4 dogs and 12 cars on the beach, 24 cars in parking lot). The only drawback was the powerful smell of rotting velella velella, which was in very...read more
March 17, 2015 - srhoads
Weather fair with a light breeze. Fairly quiet on mile 335; a couple clam diggers, a family playing and a walker (on a cell phone). It was nice NOT to see a lot of plastic debris on the beach. Most of the shoreline was covered with organic debris; wood (all...read more
  • Watching ravens eat dead sealion. Location was about 3.5 miles south of Peter Iredale shipwreak, Ft Steven.
February 11, 2015 - srhoads
The day was clam, warm and cloudy. Only observed 3 cars, which includes mine. One lady collecting driftwood and one man sitting in his car smoking.Tide was midway-coming in (1:00pm). Kelp clusters and up-dwelling foam all over the beach. Many shorebirds were taking advantage of up-dwelling organisms.Saw 2 seagull and...read more
  • Lucia with large plastic debris.
January 19, 2015 - srhoads
Human activity was very light. A beautiful sunny day with no wind. Sand is building up on top of the European beach grass, developing higher dunes.The debris on the beach was shocking. Macro and micro plastics were spread along the entire beach. There was a variety of garbage; bottles, bottle...read more
January 14, 2015 - mnfwhite
The die-off of Cassin's Auklets was very apparent; we counted 252 of them. There were 6 cars at our access point (Peter Iredale parking lot). We counted 5 cars driving on the beach, but didn't see any people at all on the beach.read more

2014

April 20, 2014 - mnfwhite
Pleasant sunny day at the beach. Nine cars, 10 people walking on the sand, one dog. Nothing unusual to report.read more

2013

April 16, 2013 - mnfwhite
Sunny day with mild wind from the west. There were 9 cars at the access point (Peter Iredale). We saw 3 people walking on our mile, plus 2 people trying to get a parasail into the air, for a total of 5 people. Nine cars drove by, plus one low...read more

2012

October 17, 2012 - mnfwhite
Pleasant sunny day at the beach, with almost no wind. We didn't see any people or vehicles on our mile. There was, however, a small pickup truck stuck in the sand and abandoned, with high tides starting to surround it. We reported the vehicle to Fort Stevens personnel. The beach...read more
April 11, 2012 - mnfwhite
Pleasant morning at the beach. Minus tide, with 13 people clamming, plus 1 person walking (total of 14 people on the mile). There were 7 cars parked at the access area, and 20 cars driving or parked in allowable areas on the beach.There was a heavy deposit of shells, sand...read more

2011

December 22, 2011 - mnfwhite
12/22/2011, 3:00 pm. Mild day at the beach (about 40 degrees) with a low tide (-.9). 35 people clamming, and three people walking (2 dogs). 9 cars in the parking lot and 25 cars on the beach in allowable areas. Beautiful sunset by the time we were completing our mile...read more
September 21, 2011 - mnfwhite
Calm quiet day at the beach: only seven people and three cars on the beach. Two people were walking, two were playing with a boogie board in the surf, and three were standing next to their bicycles talking as we left our mile. There was an unusual amount of kelp...read more

2010

October 6, 2010 - mnfwhite
Beautiful warm and sunny day on the beach. There were a lot of people hunting for clams, but few were finding any. We got eight clams between the two of us and had a very nice dinner that evening!read more
June 17, 2010 - mnfwhite
June 17th was a week-day clamming tide, with a moderate number of clammers and vehicles on the beach, but all behaving well. There was some evidence of driving up in the dunes at the south end of the mile. There were many flocks of cormorants flying back and forth just...read more
April 19, 2010 - mnfwhite
Fairly windy and cold morning with a lot of clammers out. Did not find a lot of plastic debris as was reported in the Tillamook area.read more
January 27, 2010 - mnfwhite
Could have spent the whole day collecting the plastic bottles and plastic mess along the drift line. We carried out what we could.We didn't see any brown pelicans, dead or alive.read more

2009

June 12, 2009 - mnfwhite
A fairly low tide brought out a lot of clammers. Most people were getting their limits. There were more dead crabs along the surf line than normal.read more
March 18, 2009 - mnfwhite
Quiet day on the beach, with only 7 people and 4 cars. We didn't find any dead birds or mammals, and there wasn't anything unusual in the driftline. The only wildlife were sanderlings and a few gulls.read more

2008

December 5, 2008 - mnfwhite
Beautiful partly sunny day at the beach. Any people we saw appeared to be enjoying the welcome break in the weather. Nothing unusual to report.read more
June 24, 2008 - mnfwhite
Pleasant weather with little wind. Very few people on the beach within our mile, but Peter Iredale (adjacent mile north) had a fairly large number of visitors.read more
April 3, 2008 - mnfwhite
More activity than normal because of Spring Break. Few shore birds. No speeding or erratic driving.read more

2007

September 22, 2007 - mnfwhite
Very uneventful. SOLV's beach cleanup occurred last Saturday, so beach was very clean.read more
June 22, 2007 - mnfwhite
Quiet day at beach, with evidence of driving up into dunes in 3 places.read more
March 15, 2007 - mnfwhite
Beautiful March day at the beach. Nothing unusual except the 74 people, but that was because it was a minus tide and there were a lot of clammers.read more