Yaquina Bay is a bay at the mouth of the Yaquina River on the central Oregon coast at Newport, between Newport waterfront and South Beach. The tide is mixed semidiurnal, with a mean range of 6.27 ft (1.91 m) at the South Beach, OR station.
- Type
- Bay
- Location
- Oregon, United States
- Setting
- At the mouth of the Yaquina River on the central Oregon coast at Newport, between Newport waterfront and South Beach
- Tidal range
- The tide is mixed semidiurnal, with a mean range of 6.27 ft (1.91 m) at the South Beach, OR station.
- Notable
- The 1936 Yaquina Bay Bridge carrying US Route 101 across the entrance, designed by Conde McCullough as a Public Works Administration project, is on the National Register of Historic Places (FHWA / NRHP).
