Beaver Creek State Park Oregon

Beaver Creek, Oregon’s newest state park is a big hit with the Marys Peak Group of the Oregon Sierra Club. 26 of the group hiked this new park in the bright sun Saturday, January 22. The view from Snaggy Top is all the way to Ona Beach and the Pacific. We ate lunch in this delightful meadow while our photographer, Ricardo Small, was busy documenting the scene. Brian Fowler, the park ranger, has organized a weekly bird count every Saturday for the whole of 2011. If you are lucky, like we were, you might get some fresh baked cookies from the park hosts.

The park is on North Beaver Creek Road just over a mile inland from Ona State Beach. The turn to Beaver Creek State Park is about 8.5 miles south of Newport, Oregon off of Highway 101.

Here is Ricardo's group photo.