LONGEST -- Wooden Pier on the West Coast of the US - Oceanside, CA
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N 33° 11.681 W 117° 23.032
11S E 464219 N 3672935
The longest pier on the American west coast is in Oceanside, California.
Waymark Code: WM16379
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/24/2022
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Taken from Wikipedia, "The Oceanside Pier, located in Oceanside, in northern San Diego County, California, is the longest wooden pier on the western United States coastline at 1,954 feet (596 m).
The pier was first built in 1888 at what is now Wisconsin Avenue. The original pier was destroyed by storms in the winter of 1890, and was rebuilt in 1893 by Melchoir Pieper at what is now Pier View Way, where all subsequent piers would be located. Four iterations of the pier were built and then destroyed by heavy storms. The current pier was built and formally opened to the public in September 1987, at a cost of $5 million.
At the foot of the pier is the Junior Seau Pier Amphitheatre, which hosts numerous events throughout the year. The Junior Seau Beach Community Center, also known as the Beach Recreation Center, is a 17,000 square feet (1,600 m2) facility located near the pier that includes a gymnasium, meeting room, stage, and kitchen. Both the amphitheater and the community center were renamed posthumously in 2012 in honor of hometown football hero Junior Seau."
Type of documentation of superlative status: Website
Location of coordinates: Entrance
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