are one of the best place in the nation for riding off-road vehicles, motorcycles and dune buggies in the sand ... dunes. The main campgrounds used by ATV riders are Driftwood south of Florence ...

It wasn’t the towering fir trees, the local IPAs, or the stunning views along the coast that brought Lon Beale to Oregon. It was the sand ... from Florence south to Coos Bay. Dunes in that ...

It’s true, you don’t need to go all the way to the Sahara Desert to adventure on some dunes! Oregon has miles and miles of dunes right along its moody coastline. From Florence to Coos Bay ...

There are so many ways to explore the Oregon Dunes near Florence: by foot, on horseback and even aboard giant balloon-tired dune buggies that have carried passengers across the sand for more than ...

It’s about 60 miles on Oregon ... from $6. Sand Master Park, 87542 Highway 101, Florence; (541) 997-6006, www.sandmasterpark.com. Sandboard rentals from $16 for 24 hours. Sand Dunes Frontier ...

Just ask Lon Beale. He came to Florence, a former logging community on the north end of Oregon’s dunes, 10 years ago looking for the best sand on which to popularize sandboarding, a craze he ...

There is a beach where you can still find whole sand dollars and ... the beach and the dunes. To find the Oregon Dunes Day Use Area, drive Highway 101 south of Florence 10 miles (or 11 miles ...

FLORENCE, Ore. - What is sandboarding? Think snowboarding without the boots and on a mountain of sand. It turns out that Florence is known as the “sandboarding capitol of the world” thanks in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — It’s a road once taken, you’ll never want to leave: The “Cape Arago Highway” skirts a lonesome section of the Southern Oregon coastline. It leads you past so many ...

Resettlement workers are planting Holland grass to stop the moving sand dunes on the Oregon coast from inundating forest recreation areas at Lake Sutton, Oregon in 1936 Herbert came to Florence in ...

When Frank Herbert saw how ecologists had manipulated the sands of Oregon's coast, it would influence his sci-fi novel Dune – but in the present day, that human intervention has triggered ...