Shipwreck Beach | Oregon Coast

Shipwreck Beach is everything. We accessed it via an entrance within Fort Stevens State Park in the city of Warrenton about 20 minutes from of Astoria. Next to it is Sunset Beach where you can drive south on the sand for miles. After exploring the Peter Iredale shipwreck that is exactly what we did. (You don't need an ORV pass.) 

There are plenty of beach-goers, but with so much space you feel like you have the entire place to yourself. We drove past lots of RVs partaking in beach camping. Opportunities to exit the beach exist at marked turn offs so an eventual left hand turn took us into a pretty neighborhood and we navigated home from there.  

Taking in these wide open sandy shores and dunes that stretch as far as the eye can see, I was humbled and overwhelmed. Oregon's northernmost coastline has an indescribable magic to it, a feeling that crept in with each new section of the coast we visited.