The town in Tillamook County that fell into the sea

Bayocean was a community built in the early 1900s and was coined “the Atlantic City of the West.”

TILLAMOOK COUNTY, Ore. — I love the kind of travel that puts me in touch with adventure that promises to teach me more about Oregon’s past.

Drive west from the town of Tillamook to reach Bay Ocean Road that skirts the southern end of Tillamook Bay. Soon, you are face to face with the site of Bay Ocean Park, a now-extinct community that was a developer’s dream turned into a homeowner’s nightmare. Construction of the subdivision began in the early 1900s when it was coined “the Atlantic City

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