They’re coming. From north, south, east (not west—can’t get more west than Tillamook) they’re coming to walk the coast.
The North Coast Land Conservancy will be hosting its CoastWalk Oregon 2024 from September 20-22. People from all over the country will flock to the noth coast to walk the north section of the Oregon Coast Trail for three days. The north coast section of the trail is 120 miles long, and each year CoastWalk walks a 30-mile portion of it.
The walk is a fundraising event with $42,000 raised last year to support the protection of important land and water in the north coast.
The event has attracted people from Washington, California, Montana and even Texas in the past. This will be CoastWalk Oregon’s eighth year, though 2020 was skipped due to the pandemic.
The route changes every year, with this year’s running between Ecola State Park and Nehalem Bay State Park, walking roughly ten miles a day. It’s led by experts—the main leader being a retired geologist who has done six expeditions to Antarctica—including naturalists and other experts of the Oregon Coast who give participants an in-depth knowledge of the coast. Eleven volunteers have been working since November to organize this year’s event.