The largest costal expanse of sand dunes in North America is located on the Central Oregon coast near Florence, OR. The home of the worlds only sandboard park this area is renowned for large windswept dunes that lead one to believe they are in the middle of the Sahara rather than in the middle of the Oregon Coast. These dunes were the inspiration for the classical Sci-Fi novel Dune based on the authors research on the area. The dunes lie at the foot of the Suislaw river a tributary of three seperate mountain streams that over millions of years have deposited mountain sediment from the Cascade Range into the bay where it was again washed up onto shore and deposited to create our next weekend retreat, depending on the votes.
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