Manhattan Beach State Recreation Site is a

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in the

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. Administered by the

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, the park is open to the public and is fee-free. Amenities at the park, which is north of Rockaway Beach along

U.S. Route 101 U.S. Route 101, or U.S. Highway 101 (US 101), is a north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs through the states of California, Oregon, and Washington, on the West Coast of the United States. It is also known as (The Royal Roa ...

, include picnicking, fishing, and a Pacific Ocean beach. The entrance road from the highway leads across tracks of the

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to a site with coastal vegetation, picnic tables, and restrooms. Although the park occupies only , its beach forms part of a stretch of public beaches between

Tillamook Bay Tillamook Bay is a small inlet of the Pacific Ocean, approximately 6 mi (10 km) long and 2 mi (3 km) wide, on the northwest coast of the U.S. state of Oregon. It is located just north of Cape Meares in western Tillamook Count ...

on the south and

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on the north. Sea

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s called the Twin Rocks can be seen offshore to the south near the community of Twin Rocks. The

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passes through the park. ''Oregon Geographic Names'' (''OGN'') says that the name ''Manhattan Beach'' "strongly savors of real-estate activity". The Pacific Railway & Navigation Company, which opened a rail line through a nearby summer resort in 1912, named its train station "Manhattan Beach". The

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community of Manhattan Beach had a post office between 1914 and 1975. In 1926, the postmaster wrote that promoters chose the name because Manhattan Beach, Oregon, was a watering place. ''OGN'' says the name might be "particularly inappropriate" considering that a native American word for

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probably meant "place of drunkenness" and that "no one gets drunk in Oregon, certainly not in watering places. No indeed.""

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" or "watering place" is sometimes used colloquially to mean a

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or other place serving

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{{Authority control State parks of Oregon Parks in Tillamook County, Oregon

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