Samoa Beach is a long, flat stretch of dunes and sand on the southwest side of the Samoa Peninsula. It flanks the historic logging town of Samoa, whose famous cookhouse looks and feels just as it did when it served the lumber industry workforce housed nearby. Samoa Beach is easily accessible, with the water’s edge just a short walk from the parking lot. Surfers flock to Samoa Beach year round for its consistent waves. At the end of the peninsula lies the North Jetty, a popular fishing and strolling destination, as well as the Samoa Drag Strip and the Humboldt Bay Social Club.

The last lumbercamp cookhouse has been serving up square meals (all you can eat) since 1890; check out the logging and cookhouse museum, plus the Maritime Museum next door.

Samoa Dunes is so much more than just a sandy strip of land extended between Humboldt Bay and the Pacific Ocean. Before you go off on your adventures down at the dunes, enjoy a hot meal and freshly baked bread at Samoa Cookhouse where they have been serving hungry visitors for over 100 years. Once you have finished your feast spend your day surfing, fishing, boating or Off-Highway Vehicle riding down at the Samoa Dunes. Off-Highway Vehicle facilities include an unloading ramp, restroom, tables, cooking grills and a scenic overlook, easy access to 140 acres of “open” terrain.

In order to get to the Manila Dunes, you must first go through the Humboldt Coastal Nature Center. When you find the building that resembles a Middle-Earth shire, you have arrived. Once you enter through the doors you will instantly be transported to over 1,000 acres of coastal wildlife habitat.