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The Fourth of July is a time for barbecues, picnics, and, of course, fireworks. If you're looking for a memorable way to celebrate Independence Day, Newport is the place to be! With its stunning coastal scenery and vibrant community spirit, Newport offers a variety of festivities for locals and visitors alike. Here you'll find some tips on how to enjoy the Fourth of July in Newport, including the spectacular fireworks display, prime viewing spots, and additional events in nearby cities. Fireworks Extravaganza On the Fourth of July, as the sun sets, the sky above Yaquina Bay comes alive with a mesmerizing fireworks display. Enormous mortar rounds are launched over the bay, creating a breathtaking spectacle that can be seen from all over town and the surrounding area. The vibrant bursts of color and the resounding booms fill the air, creating an atmosphere of excitement and awe. Create memorable experiences with your friends, and your family as you enjoy a Fourth of July like no other. Prime Viewing Spots To make the most of the fireworks extravaganza, finding the perfect viewing spot is key. Thankfully, Newport offers several fantastic locations where you can watch and hear the fireworks. Since the fireworks show happens over Yaquina Bay, there are many locations from which to enjoy the show, however, here are some of the best spots to settle in with friends and family: Yaquina Bay State Recreation Site: This picturesque park, nestled on the shores of Yaquina Bay, provides a scenic backdrop for the fireworks. Find a cozy spot on the grassy areas or the sandy beach and prepare to be amazed. Under the Yaquina Bay Bridge: For a unique perspective, head beneath the Yaquina Bay Bridge. Here, you can watch the fireworks illuminate the sky against the striking architectural backdrop of the bridge. SW Bay Blvd.: This waterfront area offers ample space for spectators to spread out and enjoy unobstructed views of the fireworks. Set up your chairs and blankets and prepare to be dazzled. Abbey St. Pier: Located on the Bayfront, Abbey St. Pier provides an excellent vantage point to witness the fireworks bursting over the bay. Arrive early to secure your spot on this popular pier. The Embarcadero Resort Hotel and Marina: If you prefer a more elevated view, consider booking a room at The Embarcadero Resort Hotel and Marina. From your balcony, you can savor the fireworks while enjoying the comfort and convenience of a waterfront hotel. Additional local Festivities While you may make Newport's fireworks the highlight of your Fourth of July celebrations, neighboring cities also offer exciting events for a full day of festivities. In Waldport, you can enjoy a lively celebration on July 3rd. Dance the night away at the Moose Lodge to the energetic tunes of Lisha and the Outlaws, followed by a fabulous fireworks display after dark. Visit Yachats on the 4th to embrace the holiday at the La De Da Parade, featuring whimsical people-powered fun. Starting at noon, the parade winds along Ocean View Drive, offering a fun and lively experience for participants and spectators alike. Following the parade, head to the State Park lawn at the west end of 2nd Street or find a cozy spot along Ocean View Drive to enjoy the dazzling fireworks display as it lights up the sky above the mouth of the Yachats River. The Fourth of July in Newport is a memorable experience filled with dazzling fireworks, stunning coastal atmosphere, and a warm community spirit. Visit the Coast early to explore Newport and neighboring cities for additional festivities, then find a prime viewing spot near Yaquina Bay to enjoy the show. Make your plans now to gather with loved ones, and get ready to create lasting memories this Independence Day!

May is a busy time at the beach! Not only are we preparing to welcome visitors for the summer months, but we also celebrate our special relationship with Mombetsu, Japan every year. Newport and Mombetsu (pronounced mom-bets) have been participating in the sister city's “people-to-people” program since 1966. President Eisenhower created a national sister city program in 1956 as a way to promote world peace by learning from different cultures. The relationship began when Mombetsu resident Shunichi “Shun” Kobayachi contacted the Newport Rotary Club in 1964 and explained that both cities share the same latitude, the 44th parallel, and could benefit from learning about each other through the sister city program. Newport Rotarian Connie Gates was very receptive and rallied the city to officially establish the relationship, which it did several years later. Since then, delegations of citizens have been traveling between the two cities to learn from one another. The two cities have also presented each other with gifts that represent the two communities. Newport City Hall has many of these gifts on display, and we even have a Mombetsu Sister City park that’s worth a visit the next time you travel to the beach. The Newport Chamber of Commerce is always ready to welcome you to the beach! Visit newportchamber.org for a detailed calendar of events and a list of local businesses that will take care of every aspect of your stay.

It’s that time of year again! Come celebrate the 66th annual Newport Loyalty Days and Sea Fair Festival! The Festival will take place May 5th through May 7th and is a chance for locals and visitors to come together and support the community, country, and the brave men and women who serve and have served our nation. This year’s Loyalty Days celebrates the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War by giving special honors to those who served in Vietnam, and officially says, “Welcome Home Vets.” Bring the whole family and all of your friends down to the coast for a weekend of fun and remembrance! The idea for Loyalty Day originated with East Coast chapters of Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) shortly after World War I, and steadily gained popularity across the nation. The purpose of the event was to set aside a special day for the reaffirmation of loyalty to the United States of America and for the recognition of the heritage of American freedom. Shortly after Loyalty Day was recognized by Congress in 1955, and even before President Eisenhower dedicated it to a national holiday in 1958, Newport’s American Legion Post #116 started the local Loyalty Day Festival in 1956. Newport’s first Loyalty Day was celebrated with a free crab dinner. Although a fixture of the Newport community, there was a lapse in organization in 1973, and the event went unobserved. This prompted the students of Newport High School to set and accomplish the goal to revive Loyalty Day in Newport. The determined teens breathed fresh life into Loyalty Day, and with their active participation since 1974, the event has steadily grown in size and has added numerous activities. Local community volunteers are an essential part of the Festival’s continued success, and Newport remains one of the only cities in the United States to have made the national day into an annual weekend celebration. The Festival will start on Friday, May 5th at 11:30 A.M. with a Veterans luncheon at the Newport 60+ Activity Center. The reading of the names of every fallen Vietnam Vet from Oregon will be held later that evening at 9 P.M. at Newport National Guard Armory. On May 6th, HWY 101 will shut down for the parade at 11:30 A.M. from Hwy 20 north to Walmart. The Loyalty Days Run will start near Safeway on Hwy 101, with the Competitive Mile at 11:35 A.M., followed by the Open Mile at 11:38 A.M., the Youth and High School Mile at 11:44 A.M., Non-Competitive Community Mile at 11:47 A.M., and the Masters Mile at 11:51 A.M. The Parade will begin at 12 P.M. and will be led by the honor guard from Coast Guard Station Yaquina Bay, Newport fire, police, and other first responders, Grand Marshal, John Miller, and this year’s Loyalty Day Princesses, Kasin Schwab, Lilliebelle Bassingthwaite, and Julie Zeng. The parade will end just before the intersection of Hwy 20 and Olive St. An open house will be held at 1:30 P.M. at the American Legion, and a military display to honor vets will take place at the National Guard Armory at 2 P.M. The Festival will conclude on Sunday, May 7th, with the Newport Fishermen’s Wives beginning the day with the Survival Suit Race at 9 A.M., where teams, including the princesses, will compete in a race between Port Dock 1 and Port Dock 5. The Blessing of the Fleet, to honor local fishermen and their families, will follow at 11:00 A.M. The Newport Fishermen’s Wives annual BBQ will take place at the Yaquina Bay Yacht Club at 1 P.M. and is free to the public until the food runs out. The final event of the Festival will be the Memorial Service to remember fishermen lost at sea, and it will take place at the Fishermen’s Memorial Sanctuary at Yaquina Bay State Park at 4 P.M. The Newport Chamber of Commerce is always ready to welcome you to the beach! Visit newportchamber.org for a detailed calendar of events and a list of local businesses that will take care of every aspect of your stay.

Did you know that May is Oregon Wine Month? And, did you know that we have a very special relationship with wine in Newport? It’s true! We have hundreds of unique wines to choose from in Oregon, and we’re sure you’ll find a favorite varietal or vintage here to highlight a great meal, a special occasion, or simply a moment to ponder what makes Newport such an exceptional place to relax and unwind. As the nice weather returns to the coast, celebrate Oregon Wine Month by enjoying a glass at the beach, a scenic overlook, your hotel patio, or at one of our many restaurants that serve Oregon wine. Though Newport Seafood & Wine has been serving Oregon’s finest wines to thousands of locals and visitors nearly every February since 1977, there’s not a bad time to enjoy wine in Newport! More than 80 Oregon wineries entered the 2023 Newport Seafood & Wine Commercial Wine Competition, and gold medals were awarded to VinTyr Wine, Flourishing Palm Cellars, Redgate Vineyards, Stone Grifffon Vineyard, Season Cellars, Awen Winecraft, Trella Vineyards, Chris James Cellars, Cardwell Hill Cellars, Bellingar Estates, Darque Wines, Pinot Vista Vineyards, Ducleaux Cellars, and Knostman Family Winery. Visit these winery websites linked above for more information and to find out where you can get a glass or bottle to enjoy at the beach. In Newport, great Oregon wines by the bottle can be found at Nye Beach Wine Cellar, Newport Liquor Store, JC Market, Fred Myer, Safeway, and other grocery stores in Newport. Clearwater, Zach’s Bistro, Local Ocean, Mo’s Seafood and Chowder, Ocean Bleu Seafood @Ginos, and Georgie’s are just a few local restaurants that regularly serve Oregon wine. We have miles of sandy beach, a variety of scenic vistas, hotel spaces, and great restaurants that are just perfect for sharing a bottle of wine or enjoying a glass all by yourself. Plan your vacation in May, or any other time of the year to enjoy Oregon wine at the beach! For a complete list of all the wines that won awards at the 2023 Newport Seafood & Wine competition click here. The Newport Chamber of Commerce is always ready to welcome you to the beach! Visit newportchamber.org for a detailed calendar of events and a list of local businesses that will take care of every aspect of your stay.

Visitors and locals alike know Newport is a great place to live and visit! Perfectly situated along the Oregon Coast, around Yaquina Bay, and surrounded by temperate rain forests, Newport offers a variety of opportunities for work and play. Settlers realized that the area was the perfect place to be back in the 1860s too, and although Yaquina Bay was home to Native Americans then, the settlers began to move into the area. Sadly, Natives who remained in the area were systematically moved from their land and forced to live on a nearby reservation. In recent years, Natives, historians, and interested citizens have sought to further investigate, document, and add the experiences of Newport’s first people to the history of the area. The first people to live in the Newport area, roughly from Cape Foulweather to the north to Beaver Creek in the south, and inland along the Yaquina Bay, were the Yaqo’n (pronounced Yacona). The Yaqo’n tribe inhabited the region for at least 3,000 years before European-Americans began to interact with them. They traveled on foot throughout the area and built their villages far enough inland to be protected from the storms and rough weather that constantly move in from the Pacific Ocean. The Yaqo’n didn’t have to migrate often for food because the bay was full of oysters, salmon that were plentiful in the river, and the forest provided deer, elk, roots, and berries. Prior to outside interaction, the Yaqo’n tribe is believed to have had a population of about 700, but unfortunately, the first European fur trappers, explorers, and early colonists brought diseases like smallpox, measles, tuberculosis, and influenza. By the turn of the 19th century, nearly eighty percent of the Native population had died because they had no immunity to those diseases. A series of forest fires in the early 1800s also destroyed Yaqo’n villages and killed many of the residents, and by 1850 only about 80 Yaqo’n people were left in the area. By mid-1850, settlers had steadily expanded onto the Oregon Coast and the United States government formed the Siletz Reservation in 1855, when five coastal tribes met on the Yaquina Bay and were persuaded to sign away their rights to the area. The original reservation consisted of about 100 miles along the Pacific coast and stretched inland from the beach for approximately twenty miles, with Yaquina Bay at its center. More than 2,700 Native people from nearly thirty tribes were forcibly relocated to the Siletz Reservation from as far away as northern California and southern Washington. At first, residents of the Yaqo’n tribe remained in the Yaquina Bay adopting homes and Western clothing as was required by the policies of assimilation, but by the 1860s settlers wanted access to the land and the oysters that grew in the bay. The United States government began to reduce the size of the reservation and expand areas for settlement. Twenty-five miles of land was carved out of the center of the reservation in 1865, and by 1875 only 225,000 acres of the original 1.1 million Siletz Reservation remained. The Yaqo’n and all other tribes who had lived in those areas were forced to abandon their homes and move into the community of Siletz. By 1900, only nineteen Yaqo’n people remained in the Siletz Reservation, and today, only one family can trace their ancestry back to the Yaqo’n tribe. Since 1977, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians have been regaining their rights and restoring their land base. By the mid-1980s, the Tribes of Siletz had their own school, which emphasizes traditional language, culture, and history, a health clinic, and cultural and natural resource departments. Today, the tribe owns and manages Chinook Winds Casino and Hotel, which helps to generate income for Native communities. Independently, private donors have established a nature preserve on a peninsula just east of where the Yaquina River enters Yaquina Bay. Founders of the 340-acre Yakona Nature Preserve plan to rehabilitate the area to its original state and open a Yakona Learning Center to educate the public about Newport’s first people and their history. For more information, visit Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians at www.ctsi.nsn.us and Yakona at www.yakonaoregon.org The Newport Chamber of Commerce is always ready to welcome you to the beach! Visit newportchamber.org for a detailed calendar of events and a list of local businesses that will take care of every aspect of your stay. Photo Credit: www.yakonaoregon.org/history

Yakona is a privately owned property focused primarily on education. We offer limited public access to our trails by escort. If you would like to join a guided group tour, please visit our Events page for dates and details. You can access Yakona Nature Preserve & Learning Center on your own by obtaining a permit to hike two miles across neighboring private property. You must apply for a permit from Emery Investment Properties in order to cross their land. You may apply via email to: permits@eenw.com. Yakona has no control over the issuing of Emery permits. Your hike begins at a locked gate at the end of SE 40th St./SE Harborton St. near Wolftree Brewery in South Beach. You may park on the pavement across from SE College Way or near Wolftree Brewery.

Help celebrate Earth Day 2023 with a trip to Newport! The official theme this year is Invest in Our Planet, and we have so many opportunities to do that here at the beach. 2023 marks the 53rd anniversary of Earth Day, and there’s no better way to commemorate the occasion than spending time thinking about sustainability or even helping to regenerate the beach and surrounding forests. Since 1970, Earth Day has served as a reminder that we can come together to respect and protect our natural world by conserving resources and eliminating damaging and wasteful practices and policies. Visitors to Newport experience the first-hand beauty of the natural environment, from the mighty waves crashing onto our serene beaches, to the complex relationships within our temperate rainforests, to the many kinds of wildlife that call these ecosystems home. We have a special balance here, and you can be a part of that when you visit. Practicing Sustainable Travel is an easy way to celebrate Earth Day this year, and every day that you travel away from home. Be aware of your own travel habits and focus on using only enough resources for your needs. When you spend time in town, on the hiking trails, or on the beach, leave an area the way you found it. Turn off the lights in your hotel room when not in use and use the same towel and sheets for the duration of your stay. Eat and drink local food and beverage that require fewer resources to bring those products to you (and it tastes way better too)! Or take your stay at the beach to the next level this Earth Day by practicing Regenerative Travel, where you make a conscious effort to leave the beautiful places you visit better than you found them. Pick up as much trash as you can carry away from the beach every time you visit. Volunteer with local organizations to replant trees or clear brush and debris from surrounding forests. Forage your own greens, mushrooms, clams, crab, and berries, and be mindful of the impact of how you gather them. The Newport Chamber of Commerce is always ready to welcome you to the beach! Visit newportchamber.org for a detailed calendar of events and a list of local businesses that will take care of every aspect of your stay. Happy Earth Day!

Happening on July 4th at dusk, enormous mortar rounds will be launched from a barge in Yaquina Bay. The spectacular display can be seen from all over town and the surrounding area. There are many great places around Yaquina Bay and in town to watch and hear the fireworks. Want to find the perfect place to view the show? Here are our recommendations: Find a place that overlooks the bay or an unobstructed area that allows you to look at the sky above. Settle into your spot in advance, well before the fireworks display begins at dusk. Here are some of the best spots to watch the fireworks Yaquina Bay State Recreation Site Under the Yaquina Bay Bridge On SW Bay Blvd. Abbey St. Pier The Embarcadero Resort Hotel and Marina Clearwater Restaurant on the Historic Bayfront Rogue Brewery and Marine Science Drive in South Beach

The Annual Quilt Show, "Quilts by the Sea", at the Newport Recreation Center.

The Coast Busters Walk for breast cancer is the outcome of two ladies wanting to inspire hope for other women and their families struggling with breast cancer. The Coast Busters Walk is a 3-mile walk that will be held on the track at Newport High during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Proceeds raised from the event will stay local and benefit Pacific Communities Health District Foundation Women’s Cancer Fund. This is an opportunity to proudly raise awareness in our community and to provide faith, courage, confidence, and hope for all women who have been affected by breast cancer. View website for updates.