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Sunset Bay State Park

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Type
  
Public, state

Created
  
1948

Address
  
Coos Bay, OR 97420, USA

Phone
  
+1 800-551-6949

Nearest city
  
Status
  
Open all year

Area
  
164 ha

Sunset Bay State Park

Operated by
  
Oregon Parks and Recreation Department

Visitors
  
Day-use: about 1.4 million annually. Overnight: about 70,000.

Similar
  
Shore Acres State Park, Cape Arago State Park, Cape Arago Light, Bullards Beach State Park, Umpqua River Light

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Sunset Bay State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Oregon. Administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, it is about 0.4 miles (0.6 km) south of Cape Arago Lighthouse and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) outside the town of Charleston on Coos Bay. The park offers a crescent shaped beach, tide pools, hiking trails and a year-round campground.

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The park is one of three along the Cape Arago Highway, which runs along the Pacific Ocean west of U.S. Route 101. Sunset Bay State Park is about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Shore Acres State Park and about 2 miles (3 km) north of Cape Arago State Park. A hiking trail links Sunset Bay to Shore Acres.

Land for the park was acquired in stages through 1984. Coos County donated the original tract to the state in 1948. In 1954, Ralph Barker donated a parcel with a water supply. The Bureau of Land Management later added tracts through a grant to the state, which also bought, exchanged, or otherwise acquired land from private owners. The combined size of the parcels is about 405 acres (164 ha).

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References

Sunset Bay State Park Wikipedia


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