This history sign is near the flag poles in the parking lot for the Crissey Field Welcome Center.
Marker Name: A highway of sand
Marker Text: Imagine living along the Oregon coast long before there were roads. Imagine trying to travel for supplies, or to visit friends and relatives who, like you, were carving a place for themselves out of Oregon’s rugged geography. You might travel by horse, or buggy, or maybe a wagon, but mostly you walked.
Imagine a 362-mile highway of sand.
Long before the famous 1913 declaration by Governor Oswald West, people knew that the coastline was a public highway, because they used it that way. It is both an unlikely and remarkable legacy that today, this same highway of sand stretches before you -- and undeveloped, publicly-owned coastline called the Oregon Coast Trail.
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