SAND LAKE -- Sleet pelts the mud flats at Whalen Island as dawn gives way to gray morning. A great egret, shimmering white, hunts the tidal channel at low tide. Goldeneyes in striking black and white ...

Take a deep breath and savor a place meant for the quiet times at the only Oregon state park that's a coastal island getaway. Wildness rules Whalen Island! Clay Myers Natural Area includes nearly 200 ...

Sandy, forested Whalen Island is almost at sea, surrounded by Sand Lake, a shallow estuary near Pacific City on the northern Oregon Coast. Recent additions to Oregon’s state parkland make it possible ...

Directions: From Portland, take Highway 26 for 20 miles to Highway 6. Drive the length of Highway 6, 51 miles, to Highway 101 in Tillamook. Take Highway 101 south for 11 miles and make a right onto ...

Tucked between Cape Kiwanda and Cape Lookout, the Sand Lake area on the Tillamook County coast will soon have another reason for visitors to spend some time. Oregon's newest state park is in the ...