Manhattan Beach State Recreation Site
Manhattan Beach State Recreation Site | |
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Type | Public, state |
Location | Tillamook County, Oregon |
Nearest city | Rockaway Beach |
Coordinates | 45°38′34″N 123°56′29″W / 45.642883°N 123.941523°W[1] |
Area | 41 acres (17 ha) |
Operated by | Oregon Parks and Recreation Department |
Status | Day use, year-round |
Manhattan Beach State Recreation Site is a state park in the U.S. state of Oregon. Administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, the park is open to the public and is fee-free. Amenities at the park, which is 2 miles (3 km) north of Rockaway Beach along U.S. Route 101, include picnicking, fishing, and a Pacific Ocean beach.[2]
The entrance road from the highway leads across tracks of the
Oregon Geographic Names (OGN) says that the name Manhattan Beach "strongly savors of real-estate activity". The Pacific Railway & Navigation Company, which opened a rail line through a nearby summer resort in 1912, named its train station "Manhattan Beach". The unincorporated community of Manhattan Beach had a post office between 1914 and 1975. In 1926, the postmaster wrote that promoters chose the name because Manhattan Beach, Oregon, was a watering place. OGN says the name might be "particularly inappropriate" considering that a native American word for Manhattan Island in New York probably meant "place of drunkenness" and that "no one gets drunk in Oregon, certainly not in watering places. No indeed."[4][5]
See also
References
- ^ "Manhattan Beach State Park". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
- ^ "Manhattan Beach State Recreation Site". Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation Department. Retrieved September 25, 2009.
- ISBN 0-89886-794-0.
- ISBN 0-87595-277-1.
- ^ "Watering hole" or "watering place" is sometimes used colloquially to mean a bar or other place serving alcoholic beverages.