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Article: Sand city.(Recreation)(The coast's popular Honeyman State Park attracts 1.5 million visitors each year)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- July 15, 2007
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Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard
FLORENCE - On many a summer night, three miles south of this city, another one soundly sleeps.
It is not incorporated, has no mayor, no city council, no land-use disputes - not unless you count the ones between sand surfers and dune climbers.
But when - on any given summer day - you have as many as 3,000 people scattered about 522 acres and three freshwater lakes, anything is possible.
"We're talking about a lot of folks," park manager Shirley Stentz says.
With 417 campsites, and more than 1.5 million visitors a year, Jessie M. Honeyman Memorial State Park is the second-largest overnight ...