Bob Straub State Park

Gorgeous park with wonderful dunes, trails and views! Greasy place to sit and watch the ocean, hike around in the dunes, read or cat nap! High on my list of favorite spots!

«A must see on horseback one of the most Beautiful places in Oregon»
Bob Strub state park is almost a square mile of gorgeous wildlife trees shrubs the most beautiful views on the Oregon coast with hay stack rock in the background. I highly recommend taking a horseback ride on the beach and also on the dunes at Bob Straw Park. Picture you and you family on a horse with the wind at you’re back beautiful blue clouds rolling waves crashing ! The squeaking of the sand on the horses hoves It’s like sound of no other. Green Acres Beach & Trail check out their website

Beautiful nearly deserted beach with a haystack rock in the ocean. It’s a peaceful stretch of sand with the occasional shell, crab leg, and seaweed find. There is a nice sized parking lot and clean bathrooms to use, then simply walk up one of the beach grass-​lined paths to reach the beach. When I was there there was only one family and one guy walking his dogs. Great spot to take photos and take a long stroll in solitude.

Pacific City is a beach village west of Pacific Coast Highway 101 — cut off on one side by the coastal mountain range, on another by the Pacific, and winding through and around the village is river-​front — and lots of houses perched on the river’s edge with docks and bike trails — and Bob Straub State Park almost seems like an afterthought.
Take the last left turn on the last road — just a couple of hundred yards from the water’s edge, and most of that space is filled with sand, salt grass, and beach houses sitting just a few feet above sea level. Like the section of Hwy. 101 in Waldport (where waves splash up over the seawall into oncoming traffic!) the sea-​levelest of sea level locations can be a little unnerving — especially since I am visiting less than 72 hours after an 8.0 earthquake in the Pacific and its 6.0−7.0 aftershocks.
The road itself feels pretty remote — you can’t actually see the shore until after you park (in a turn-​around lot, complete with rest room facilities) –and climb over the little car-​height bluff. Then it opens up to – the west. The water. The sunset. The waves. The oncoming clouds.
It’s pretty impressive.
Pacific City’s natural landmarks, Haystack Rock, and Cape Kiwanda, are also pretty impressive — bringing to mind the rocky coast of Scotland more than anything else. Even in the off season, this beach gets lots of foot traffic.
Just before the 2-​way road turns into Park drive, there’s a stable that offers beach horse-​rides — which is much too cool for me, but possibly not for experienced horse people…
And the real close-​up view of Haystack Rock is from the village’s sandy parking lot about a mile north of this little State Park — though I’m not sure the rock benefits from close up viewing…