Coos Bay - Explore More

The panel sends visitors to South Slough and gives its founding year as 1874. It was 1974. On June 27 of that year NOAA chose Oregon's proposal for South Slough as the nation's first estuarine sanctuary under the Coastal Zone Management Act, with $400,000 to buy and manage land whose forests had been heavily logged and whose wetlands had been filled for farming. Renamed a research reserve in 1985, it covers some 4,700 acres of marsh, mudflat and forest south of Charleston, managed so that those natural processes can come back.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shore Acres State Park — 7.4 mi
  A timber family's clifftop estate whose mansion burned three months after its mistress died, whose larger replacement the state could not keep, and whose gardens it did.
• Bandon — 20 mi
  A town at the mouth of the Coquille built near the site of an 1854 massacre, named for a town in Ireland, and burned in 1936 by the Irish gorse its founder planted.

More markers nearby

• Shifting Sands - Sand Dunes — steps away
• The Coos People — steps away
• The Hollering Place — steps away
• Southern Oregon Coast Region — 3.7 mi