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Sunset Bay State Park Oregon Parks And Recreation Department As A Park Or Park District Coos Bay, Oregon Parks And Park Districts
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. [from wikipedia]
Inland Sunset Bay
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Inland, At Sunset Bay State Park, Oregon Parks And Recreation Department, As A Park Or Park District, Coos Bay, Oregon

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.[from wikipedia]

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Sunset Bay, At Sunset Bay State Park, Oregon Parks And Recreation Department, As A Park Or Park District, Coos Bay, Oregon

Sunset Bay is home to one of Oregon's ghost forests, created by an earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone that dropped the shoreline about 1,200 years ago. The shoreline contains stumps of drowned spruce trees.[from wikipedia]


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