Shore Acres State Park
Subnational Park · Coos Bay, Oregon
Formal gardens on a cliff top thirteen miles south of Coos Bay, laid out on the site of the timber baron Louis Simpson's estate - the mansion burned in 1921, was rebuilt, decayed and was demolished in 1948, but the gardens survived and the state took them on. There are five acres of clipped hedges, a rose garden and a Japanese-style pond garden sitting directly above a shoreline of tilted sandstone where winter storms throw spray higher than the observation building.
89099 Cape Arago Highway, Coos Bay, Oregon, 97420, United States
Open daily, dawn to dusk, year round, with an Oregon State Parks day-use parking fee or annual pass. ⚠ THE HOLIDAY LIGHTS DISPLAY RUNS FROM ABOUT THANKSGIVING TO NEW YEAR with extended evening hours and is extremely busy - the car park fills, there are queues on the approach road, and timed entry has applied in some years. Check current arrangements. There is no camping here; the nearest is Sunset Bay, a mile north. ⚠ PHONE IS NOT LISTED because the state parks website returns numbers from unrelated exchanges for this park; use the Oregon State Parks information line.
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