AREA GUIDE
Complete area guide - Ocean Crest Resort
The Pacific Northwest is a great place to get away from it all, and the Ocean Crest is the premier destination on the Washington Coast. Reaching beyond your wildest fantasies, the Ocean Crest will amaze you with its Pacific Northwest beauty. It is our mission at Ocean Crest Resort to become your personal oasis on the Washington Coast. We aim to provide you with the best, personalized service to help you fully experience and appreciate our one-of-a-kind setting in the forest by the sea. Whether you are on a romantic getaway, a family vacation, or a business retreat, we are committed to ensuring that you relax, enjoy and return again and again.
Take a swim in the Pacific Ocean
Test your endurance and hike the various trails around our resort
Bring your furry friend
Cook up a storm with our outdoor BBQ Pit
Buy a souvenir or a gift
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Whether you like biking, hiking, or taking a stroll along the beach and taking in the breeze off the Pacific Ocean; your Seaside adventure awaits.
DetailsWhether you like to visit museums or enjoy fine dining; there is plenty for you to do while visiting Seaside, Oregon.
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Seaside’s favorite spot to watch surfers, waves and birds, as well as explore tide pools and fish from the rocks.
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North Gateway Park
A park with open space and hiking trails into a large forest along high-saline salt marsh near the estuary bay. This land is culturally and spiritually significant to the Clatsop people and the North Coast Land Conservancy protects all of the forest here in perpetuity.
Leads out to sea through rugged sand dunes. The Necanicum River is popular for boating, crabbing and fishing. The Estuary Walking Trail is accessible from the 12th Avenue parking lot and weaves through more unspoiled territory for about a mile, eventually ending at a rocky area near the bay’s mouth.
Accessed on the north end of Seaside, above The Cove beach and surfing area. This trail passes over Tillamook Head to Ecola State Park in Cannon Beach.
In Seaside, they provide a variety of sales options including apparel, boards, wetsuits and more. Visit them off Highway 101 in Seaside.
Oregon Surf Adventures Learn to surf programs are sponsored by Quiksilver and Roxy and certified by Surfing America. OSA offers surfing programs for all ages and abilities. At Oregon Surf Adventures we provide Daily Group lessons, Private lessons, Custom Group lessons, and Surf camps for Women, Co-ed Adults, Teens and Kids. Lessons can be customized to suit your skill level as well as personal or group needs. They are a great option for a more extensive introduction to the sport of surfing.
In and around Seaside, you will find a variety of fishing locations and options. 1.) The Cove Beach, on the south end of town, offers Surf Casting opportunities from the rocks. 2.) 12th Avenue Bridge – In and around the bridge in September, salmon fishing is legal. 3.) Necanicum River – Between Seaside and Cannon Beach, in the months of December – February fishing for steelhead is open.
Next to the Convention Center in downtown Seaside, is a small boat launch for small crafts that want to fish salmon or drop crab pots in the Necanicum River. Make sure you have all the proper permits before fishing salmon or crab, and use care when operating a boat.
People come from all over the United States to learn about the gray whales that migrate past our coast each year.
Seaside Aquarium is one of the oldest aquariums on the West Coast. Founded in 1937, the aquarium is privately owned and the descendants of some of the founders are still active in the aquarium operation. The aquarium is proud to be involved in public awareness programs: Marine Mammal Stranding, Seaside Beach Discovery Program, Sea Week, Haystack Rock Awareness Program, the Wildlife Center of the North Coast and other marine education tours and activities for school children.
20 unique shops surrounding a full size working carousel. The mall offers dining, snacks, coffee, specialty gifts, art, imports, framing, kites, games, clothing, jewelry, toys, candies, ice cream, old time photos & portraits, and much more.
Located on Broadway in dowtown Seaside, the Funland Arcade is an iconic piece of Seaside history. You will find a wide variety of video games, games, rides and more. Easily accesible in downtown.
Bumber Boats, Miniature Golf, Go Karts and more! A great place for families to enjoy.
Learn the history of Oregon’s first seaside resort. Exhibits detail over 2,000 years of Seaside heritage, Artifacts dating from 700 B.C., Diorama depicting Seaside in 1899, Research Library & Photo Archive
The site of Lewis and Clark camp and site where they built saltworks for curing meat and food the winter in the area. Worth a visit for a piece of history.
Providing a variety of bikes available for rent, from regular street bikes, to mountain bikes, beach bikes and giant family cruisers! They are available year-round for all your bike rental needs.
Seaside’s favorite spot to watch surfers, waves and birds, as well as explore tide pools and fish from the rocks. The Cove located on Sunset Boulevard in south Seaside is both fascinating and scenic.
Necanicum Estuary & Beach Access (View Website) Located on North Holladay Drive, this park has a boardwalk and viewing deck, estuary and beach access. Located across from Seaside High School on North Holladay Seaside
3 – 4 miles north of Seaside, the city of Gearhart offers a stunning expanse of beach for passing the day, razor clamming, kite surfing or just relaxing. Cars are able to access the beach and drive along the shore.
Seaside’s oldest community park. It has sports fields, basketball courts, an award-wining skate park, swimming pool, youth center and access to the Neawanna River for canoeing and kayaking. And, it is located right across the street from Seaside’s new Public Library
One of Seaside’s newest and least developed parks, this area was formerly a round-rock quarry and the site of alder board and cedar shake mills. One millpond is fed by freshwater springs and the other is influenced by tidal salt water from the ocean via Neawanna Creek. The variety of habitat attracts a spectacular number of birds and insects and the site is beautiful and quiet. This is the south end of the Neawanna Natural History Park, which continues three miles downstream to the estuary of the river.
Located in downtown Seaside, along the Necanicum River. It is host to our summer concert series, “Where the Stars Play.” This park has picnic tables and a boat ramp.
