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The Long Beach depot was built between First and Second Streets on the east side of the track, which ran north along "B" Street. [6] Two hotels were constructed near the depot by Tinker and later the Hanniman family; the latter was destroyed in a fire on December 6, 1914. [7] The Driftwood Hotel was another common Long Beach destination.
The Long Beach Peninsula is known for its continuous sand beach 28 miles (45 km) in extent on the Pacific Ocean side, claimed to be the longest beach in the United States. It is a popular vacation destination for people from Seattle, Washington (165 miles (266 km) distant) and Portland, Oregon (115 miles (185 km) distant).
State Route 103 (SR 103) is a 19.97-mile-long (32.14 km) state highway serving the Long Beach Peninsula, located within Pacific County in the U.S. state of Washington.The highway travels north from U.S. Route 101 (US 101) in Seaview through Long Beach and Ocean Park to the southern entrance of Leadbetter Point State Park.
Cape Disappointment State Park (formerly Fort Canby State Park) is a public recreation area on Cape Disappointment, located southwest of Ilwaco, Washington, on the bottom end of Long Beach Peninsula, the northern headlands where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean.
Leadbetter Point State Park is a nature preserve and public recreation area located sixteen miles (26 km) north of the city of Long Beach, Washington, at the northern tip of the Long Beach Peninsula. The state park is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and Willapa Bay to the east and shares a border with the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge.
Willapa Bay (/ ˈ w ɪ l ə p ɑː /) is a bay located on the southwest Pacific coast of Washington state in the United States.The Long Beach Peninsula separates Willapa Bay from the greater expanse of the Pacific Ocean.
It is 0.63 miles (1.01 km) long and travels north–south between two junctions with US 101 on a two-lane highway. [ 1 ] [ 46 ] The alternate route was constructed in 1931 as the Skinville Cutoff and added to the state highway system in 1937 as a branch of PSH 12 , [ 47 ] which was co-signed with the southwestern portion of US 101.
The wagon route went through the woods on a plank road to the "weather beach," and then along the beach to Seaview. [3] In 1889 the Ilwaco Railway and Navigation Company began regular service on a narrow gauge railroad that ran up the Long Beach Peninsula to Nahcotta. The Seaview depot—no more than a shed and platform at first—was near ...