Siletz Bay Park — Attraction in Lincoln City

One of the easiest-to-get-to and best places to take in the natural beauty of Siletz Bay. From this location you'll be able to see Drift Creek, The Four Brothers (rock formation), and Salishan Spit. You'll also be able to see ospreys, bald eagles (mated pair who live to the east of Four Brothers), pelicans, and other sea birds. There's also a colony of harbor seals that you'll usually see on the northern tip of the Salishan Spit. You may hear "slaps" and that is them playing or smacking a fish on the surface of the water. Drift Creek is a little further south and Siletz River beyond that also empty into the mighty Pacific Ocean here.

In the early 1900's billions of board of lumber were taken from the valleys of those rivers and creeks and taken over the very dangerous bar for sale to largely, California. Much lumber was used to rebuild San Francisco after their great fire. Since then and due to the deforestation the bay has silted in like you see today. There was once halibut and more fishing in this unique bay.

The area you're standing on was once the burial grounds of the southern most band of the Salish, the Siletz. They would often "bury" their deseased in dugout cedar canoes that were raised up off the sand using fallen trees to prop it up. The canoe had a hole drilled in the bottom, woven mats were placed inside and the body was wrapped in blankets. Sometimes the body was covered with a smaller canoe flipped over like a lid, sometimes a special wooden burial chamber was made. The artifacts and items were sometimes placed inside the canoe or were held up by poles all around the canoe. You're standing on...

Very limited parking, but we were able to get a spot on a Sunday morning. I think most people park at 51st street, so if you cannot find anything here, just head that way. There are several handicapped spots available here. Restrooms were closed for maintenance, but there are restrooms at the 51st street parking lot.

This is a popular spot for clamming at low tide. Like, 75% of the people we saw here were digging for clams! It was pretty neat to see. The sand is kind of mucky and muddy throughout the area, but as you walk toward the ocean it gets lighter and turns into traditional beach sand.

There is tons of driftwood, and visitors have even turned some into various shelters, arches, and more! We saw people taking advantage of them for family photos, sitting under them for some relief from the wind, or just wandering throughout. I imagine they are a great spot for Lincoln City's Finders Keepers glass float hunt (I'm going to find...

Raised my family kids and grandkids here,it was a great place to hang,have alot of fun,there were seals galore,don't see too many because they've all been poisoned by sewer we use to crab,roasted oysters,but the raw sewage is always (spilling)dumped in the river to the ocean,right here and all up and down lincolncty,dont eat the bottom feeders,sewer runs, into the ocean from the cliffs where more rich a holes,have f'd up this beach,,the city planners were mostly tourists that decided to build tons of buildings for the tons of people they can get to move here ,but they ve all forgotten the infrastructure,where's all your shit going,? Into the ocean and rivers,but do they care?they don't give a, well u know, be aware of the tiny signs warning of...