A hiker skirts the snaking edge of a sand dune north of Florence, Oregon. A century ago, coastal dunes threatened to overwhelm the city of Florence, Oregon. The sand swallowed roads, highways and ...

He came to Florence, a former logging community on the north end of Oregon's dunes, 10 years ago looking for the best sand on which to popularize sandboarding, a craze he hopes will surpass ...

The Oregon Dunes is 32,000 acres from Florence to Coos Bay that offers endless sand dunes, forests, rivers and lakes.

The Oregon Dunes covers forty-two miles from Florence to Coos Bay and is an Oregon landmark for outdoor recreation. Nearby is a coastal paradise of wetlands.

But this sandy universe was largely inspired by a place right here on Earth: The sweeping sand dune ecosystem along the central Oregon coast. In the mid-1950s, Herbert visited Florence, Oregon ...

Home to the world's first sandboard park, this Oregon coast features ancient dunes over 500 feet high and offers the ideal setting for an adrenaline-packed day.

When Frank Herbert wrote Dune he was a newspaper reporter in Florence, Oregon. The stark sand world that inspired his sci-fi classic is still orbiting the central Oregon Coast. Even without the ...

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In 1953, Herbert went to the town of Florence, Oregon, near the northern end of the dunes, to research and write an article about the USDA project.