Nehalem Bay State Park
Nehalem Bay State Park is located on a 4-mile sand spit. The campground sits among shore pines and is just a sand dune away from the beach. Two day-use areas offer access to the bay or the ocean and have restrooms and picnic areas with fire rings. Bayside day-use includes a boat ramp.
Project
- Upgrade existing utilities within the camp loops
- Add a new restrooms/shower building to serve C and D Loops.
- Renovate and add additional accessible campsites
- Add a new restroom to serve the horse camp
- Repave and add traffic calming to the park entry road from the Garey Street entrance to the airport intersection.
Visitor impacts.
GO Bond construction is complete and the park is open to the public. B-loop restroom and some yurts remain closed for ongoing maintenance, separate from the GO Bond project. Those projects are anticipated to be completed in late summer 2025.
Milestones
- Final wetland delineation report complete and approved.
- Cultural resources report is complete and approved
- Cultural resources survey
- Final design for utility and road improvement project is complete
- Conditional use land use approval for other future projects (boat ramp area improvements, dump station relocation, additional camping loops).
- County Building Permit for Restroom Building
- Bidding
- Construction of utility and road improvements,
- Day-use area reopened May 23, 2025
- Campground Loops D, E, F, hiker/biker, primitive, horse camp and fly-in reopened July 1, 2025
- Campground Loops A, B, C and yurts reopened August 1, 2025
- Construction complete
The current general bond obligation is $10-12 million. The total project cost was $13.1 million. Of the total project cost, general bond obligation was $8.6 million, $4.2 million came from capital improvement funds, and $0.3 million came from ODOT funding.
Last update Aug. 2025.