It may not be important to you yet, but our beach access is what is known as a "low beach access". There are a few places to get to down the beach in this area but ours is the prettiest and easiest! It is a very short walk (about 3 minutes) from our front door until you will have your toes in the sand. You may note the grooved concrete path, providing a great footing on the way down.

It’s called the "11th St Beach Access" or also "Canyon Drive Park", and it’s one of those central Oregon coast hotspots that’s still quiet and peaceful.

It’s a bit off the beaten path, cloistered in a singular space between looming cliffside stretches that don’t usually allow you an easy access to the beach. It’s the only gap in a mile or so radius of cliffs and neighborhoods. So it manages to stay a bit of a secret: a beach less traveled by the busy beach goers that can otherwise flood other beaches in town.

Take SW 11th from the main stretch of Highway 101 in Lincoln City until it dead-ends at this cozy beach entrance. Or in our case, just out the front door to the left, the road winds down to the beach.

Along the way the road winds among some beautiful trees and past the park to open up to the majestic Pacific Ocean with a small parking area located just at the end.
If driving, be especially careful of people walking along the last part of it. You may have to share the road with the occasional family, dog walker, or other vehicles.

As you round the corner, all of a sudden the landscape has turned from a thick, forested neighborhood to a small, almost private beach entry, and a nice view of
the ocean spreads out in front of you.

Canyon Drive Park actually lies at the end of 11th and Coast
Avenue, (not a street called Canyon). Not a very large park by all standards, it includes a restroom area and a handful of parking spots and a broad concreted path to the sand. It’s actually part beach and part lakeside park! Behind the restroom area sits a small grassy area and then a small lake or pond behind that. Here, especially on lazy summer days, it’s fun to just lounge by the lake and take in the watery reflections, the calm and the moss-covered remnants of old trees.

You’ll find a little stream wandering gracefully down through the park, and a
stone floor section of the ramp going to down to the sand that adds just a
little more charm. During winters, however, this stream can become a
bit wilder.

The beach itself is typical of Lincoln City, plenty of soothing
sands stretching for miles in each direction.

Because of the ramp, it's consequently wheelchair accessible.

To the north, it’s a about a mile to the next beach access: at
the D River area. To the south: it’s also about a mile to the next one, in the
Nelscott District, at around SW 32nd Street, so you will find our beach to be a little private place as if it were created just for you!