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Depoe Bay, Depoe Creek
Depoe Bay is a community situated on a small natural embayment of the same name, forming the estuary for Depoe Creek, located about 11 miles (18 km) south-southwest of Lincoln City and 12 miles (19 km) north of Newport, Oregon.
Tuck Narrows, Tuck Inlet
Tuck Narrows is located at the head of Tuck Inlet, about 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
Bayocean, Tillamook Bay
Bayocean was a planned resort community founded in 1906 on a sand spit 4 miles, (6.5 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.8 km) wide, that separates Tillamook Bay from the Pacific Ocean, about 63 miles (102 km) west of Portland and 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Tillamook, Oregon.
Pilot Point, Ugashik Bay
Pilot Point is a community on the eastern shore of Ugashik Bay, on the north coast of the Alaska Peninsula, 83 miles (134 km) south-southwest of King Salmon and 7 miles (11 km) northwest of Ugashik, Alaska.
Esalen Institute, Slates Hot Springs
The Esalen Institute is located in Slates Hot Springs, a community on the Big Sur coast at an elevation of 118 feet (36 m), about 34 miles (55 km) southeast of Monterey, and 46 miles (74 km) northwest of San Simeon, California.
Skeena City, Khyex River
Skeena City is an abandoned community on the north shore of the Skeena River, at the mouth of the Khyex River, 22 miles (35 km) south-southeast of Prince Rupert, and 52 miles (84 km) southwest of Terrace, British Columbia.
Big River, Mendocino
Big River flows for 42 miles (68 km) through the northern California Coast Range starting at an elevation of approximately 2,800 feet (865 m), draining a watershed of 181 square miles (46,880 ha) and entering the Pacific Ocean at Mendocino, California.
Chefornak, Kinia River
Chefornak is a small village, 16 miles (26 km) upriver from Etolin Strait on the Bering Sea, at the junction of the Keguk and Kinia Rivers, on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta about 93 miles (150 km) southwest of Bethel, Alaska.
Garibaldi, Tillamook Bay
Coast Guard Station Tillamook Bay is an active duty U.S. Coast Guard facility located in Garibaldi on Tillamook Bay, 7.5 miles (12 km) northwest of the community of Tillamook, Oregon.
Kitamaat Village, Kitimat Arm
Kitamaat Village is located on the eastern shore of the Kitimat Arm extension of Douglas Channel, about 71 miles (115 km) southeast of Prince Rupert and 6 miles (10 km) south of the community of Kitimat, British Columbia.
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