Up against the bay, at the mouth of the Yachats River, lies the paved parking lot and beach access of the Yachats State Recreation Area (sometimes erroneously called Yachats State Park). It features a set of steps built upon the black basalt that leads down to the raging surf.

It's easy to walk down to the beach or rocks from there. Even better: grab a bit of lunch to go and munch while the ocean flails and crashes in front of you.

The seagulls here have caught on to that and quickly swarm to beg for food. If you throw tidbits at them, they'll really come in droves and surround you in Hitchcockian fashion. You can actually tease them into hovering next to your car window if there's a lot of wind.

You are not supposed to feed seagulls - and here's why.

The Yachats State Recreation Area's GPS coordinates are 44.3105° N, 124.1074° W. It is at about milepost 164.

More about this part of Yachats and Yachats State Recreation Area:

Structures of Small Oregon Coast Town Resemble Ancient Civilization If ever there was a place on the Oregon coast that got the imagination moving in a sci-fi direction, it would be Yachats and its State Recreation Area

Geologic Wonders and Frights of Central Oregon Coast, Yachats Area About 50 million years ago there was (and still is) a kind of soft spot in the Earth's crust that allowed all sorts of enormous lava flows to erupt

Oregon Coast Photo Essay: Subtle Wonders of Chaos in Yachats ... where the platform is – there are some funky stairways heading down to this northern side of Yachats' rivermouth. 

Oregon Coast Explorations: Nooks and Crannies of Yachats Take the Yachats Recreation Area, for example. Dozens of little cracks lace the rocks here