The Yaquina River (/jəˈkwɪnə/yə-KWIN-ə) is a river, approximately 50 mi (80 km) long, on the Pacific coast of Oregon in the United States. It drains an area of the Central Oregon Coast Range west of the Willamette Valley near Newport.
It rises in the mountains west of Corvalllis, in the Siuslaw National Forest along the county line between Benton and Lincoln counties at 44°44′57″N 123°36′06″W / 44.7492845°N 123.6017739°W / 44.7492845; -123.6017739 (Yaquina River source). It flows south, then generally west, in a highly serpentine course, past Toledo. It enters the Pacific in Yaquina Bay, a broad estuary at Newport. The Yaquina Bay Lighthouse is located on the coast near the mouth of the river.
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“The river’s tent is broken; the last fingers of leaf
Clutch and sink into the wet bank. The wind
Crosses the brown land, unheard. The nymphs are departed.
Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.
The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
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Or other testimony of summer nights.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)