About Rockaway Beach Surf Travel
Beachbreak miles and roadside ocean views follow Pacific City, interrupted with a pointbreak or two, state parks, a bit of the lush Siuslaw National Forest, dairy land, a cheese factory and more beachbreak. Built as summer resorts for Portlanders in the second decade of the last century, Rockaway Beach and Manzanita combined are home to about a dozen miles of typical flat-bottomed beachbreak with the requisite dune grass and driftwood on the sand, wide open to much wind and swell. The area is good during the summer with small, clean swells and east wind, but that’s about it. Aside from the broad, ivory beach of Manzanita proper, about another mile is accessible from Ocean Road and Beulah Reed Road. Check out the ultra-scenic backdrop of Neahkahnie Mountain.