Bayocean was a community in Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. Sometimes known as "the town that fell into the sea", it was a planned resort community founded in 1906 on Tillamook Spit, a small stretch of land that forms one wall of Tillamook Bay .

Bayocean, “the town that fell into the sea,” stands as a warning to the hubris of our ever-spreading society. If you drive to the very edge of Oregon and then get out and walk, you can stand...

Jan 6, 2017 · Between Tillamook Bay and the sea there’s a narrow, sandy peninsula where, 100 years ago, a town stood. Not just any town – one of the biggest ones on the Oregon Coast. With a municipal swimming hall full of warm saltwater and a surf generator. The reason it’s gone today?

Bayocean Tent City in the early 1900s. (Courtesy of Oregon Historical Society) Enlarge Image The single jetty worked for a time, and made for a much smoother journey into the bay. An issue arose when the one-sided change to the coastline began a process of erosion that ate away Bayocean’s beaches.

Sep 24, 2023 · In Bayocean: Atlantis of Oregon, I discuss changes in the name, location, and postmaster of all of the post offices on Tillamook Spit and Cape Meares, from the first in 1891 to the last in 1954. Below, I summarize that progression and list every postmaster who served during the sixty-three year span.

Bayocean Peninsula is four miles long and half a mile wide, and much of it is owned and operated by Tillamook County as a primitive park. Interpretive signs scattered throughout mark historic sites and introduce hikers to the lost city of Bayocean.

No Oregon ghost town had a more audacious beginning than Bayocean, "the Atlantic City of the West." The development was the dream of Thomas Benton Potter and his son Thomas Irving Potter, well-established real-estate promoters with offices in Portland, San Jose, San Francisco, and Kansas City.