Honeyman State Park favorite for kids, families - Florence, OR
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silverquill
N 43° 55.811 W 124° 06.466
10T E 411081 N 4864714
Originally built in the 1930's as Camp Woahink by the CCC, the 500-acre Honeyman State Park is now Oregon's second largest camping park with 400 sites. Three miles south of Florence, it is at the northern tip of the 47-mile Oregon Dunes Nat Rec Area.
Waymark Code: WM6C3X
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 05/11/2009
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The sand dunes here are a major attraction, especially the ones that end in the freshwater Lake Cleawox - a great landing after a roll in the sand. But, dune buggies can access several miles of dunes, and sandboarders have many choices. During the summer and holidays, the overnight facilities are booked to capacity and reservations are necessary, but it is also a great day-use area. This was a family favorite on those summer vacations to the Oregon coast, and the dunes are still as much fun, fifty years later.
"Originally known as Camp Woahink when it was built in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps, the federal emergency relief-work program of the Great Depression, the sprawling park was renamed for Jessie Honeyman 66 years ago. The native Scot came to Oregon in 1877 with her husband and children, and campaigned in the 1920s and 1930s to protect and conserve the beauty along Oregon’s highways."
"President of the Oregon Roadside Council, she teamed with Samuel Boardman, Oregon’s first superintendent of state parks, to purchase and protect a large number of state lands along the coast."
From The World by Mark Baker
Honeyman State Park
"NO WORK IS MORE IMPORTANG
THAN TEACHING THE CHILDREN
THAT THE GOD-GIVEN BEAUTY
OF OREGON IS THEIR HERITAGE."
JESSIE MILLAR HONEYMAN
1852-1948