Wecoma Beach is located at the north end of Lincoln City's String of (six) Pearls, or districts.

Excerpt from History of Wecoma District

"Wecoma means welcome...

Wecoma has long been the place where westward travelers got their first sight of the ocean. Native Americans traveled along the Salmon River on an “elk trail” to reach the “big waters.” When they finally saw the great expanse of water they shouted “Wecoma!”

The literal translation of wecoma is “sea,” but the feeling with which the word was exclaimed
carried with it the idea that the sight was a welcome one, long anticipated. In the late 1890s, homesteaders started arriving at the coast by way of the same trail, which had been improved enough to be called the Salmon River Road. They also first glimpsed the ocean at Wecoma. According to Ruby Parmele, the sight was sudden and dramatic: “On and around and over the fern hills we continued, until following a curve we came in view of

Devils Lake lying calm and beautiful in the green landscape. A few more turns and twists over a hill and the blue Pacific stretched before us on either side.” By the 1930s and 1940s the name came to mean, “Welcome to the Waters” as explained by early Wecoma resident Jim Underdahl: “Wecoma means ‘Welcome to the Waters!’ an Indian term for this area which had so much wonderful fresh water as well as the ocean.”

Today visitors travel along the same route, now the Salmon River Highway, arriving at the coast in the Wecoma area of Lincoln City. The sight of the glittering blue Pacific Ocean after the long journey still bids them welcome."

Activities of Wecoma Poster

Pick up a poster at the Urban Renewal office!