47. Bayocean, Oregon

It’s time to visit an Oregon town that time nearly forgot!

Katie and Jordan live a couple miles away from a peninsula that was once home to a cutting edge resort town literally and perilously built on sand and is now buried beneath ten feet of it. 

Bayocean was built on a spit of land that separated Tillamook Bay from the Pacific Ocean. It existed from 1906 and was battered by the elements for decades before the final structure collapsed in 1972. It was promoted as “The Atlantic City of the West” and this tiny four-mile long peninsula has an incredible history that is being remembered and revisited. 

Katie has memories of jogging the wild trails that used to be paved roads with electric lights and Jordan admits to really enjoying foraging for magic mushrooms with his friend that will only be known as “Super Mario” over the ruins of the town.

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Reference: Oregon Field Guide: Lost City of Bayocean