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OSMB Boating Facilities Program

  • Welcome to the Boating Facilities and Access
    OSMB Boating Access Map Helping you get to the water

    The Marine Board is committed to helping provide boaters with safe, sufficient, and quality boating facilities. Most boaters launch at a public boat ramp and will likely need to use boarding floats, a transient tie-up, a parking space, a restroom, a pumpout, or other amenities every time they go boating. While the Marine Board does not own or operate any of these facilities, we provide funding to the public agencies that do.
    NEW! Boating Access Sites in Oregon Map
Look What's Happening... Boating Facilities Program
Spring/Summer 2012
Greeting Boaters,

As we look towards spring and summer we also look forward to the beginning of three new boating facility sites and refurbishing three others. You can find all of the listed sites on our new Boating Access Map, mentioned above.

The new ramp PORT OF ARLINGTON on the Columbia River in Gilliam County is complete. You will also see new boarding floats. For more information call 541-454-2868.

Recently completed is the WALLOWA COUNTY RAMP on Wallowa Lake in Wallowa County. The county had the parking area refurbished and new boarding floats installed. For more information call 541-426-3332.

Also being refurbished this summer is MARSHALL ISLAND on the Willamette River in Lane County. This project will include replacing the existing boat ramp with a one-lane concrete ramp and improving the parking area. For more information call 800-551-6949.

New this summer will be construction of the boating facility at KEIZER RAPIDS on the Willamette River, in Marion County. This site will have a restroom, one lane concrete ramp and plenty of parking. 503-390-3700.

The CITY OF WINSTON, NICHOLS PARK on the Umpqua River in Douglas County will be under construction this summer with the installation of a one-lane ramp with plenty of parking and restroom. For more information call 541-679-6739.

Also new this summer will be the installation of a new boating facility in INDEPENDENCE at the new RIVERFRONT COMMUNITY PARK on the Willamette River in Polk County. The new site will have a concrete one-lane ramp, plenty of parking and restroom. For more information call 503-838-1212.

A floating restroom on Lake Billy Chinook
The State Marine Board Boating Facility Grant Program was established in 1971 by the Oregon Legislature. Legislative direction for this grant program is contained in Oregon Revised Statute 830.150. The Board has also adopted administrative rules to further implement the Statute. These rules can be found in Chapter 250, Division 14 of Oregon Administrative Rules.

The Board does not own or operate any boating sites or facilities and instead, relies on willing partners to apply for grants to make needed improvements. Boating Facility Grants are available to help the providers of public boating access sites around the state to acquire, improve, and maintain facilities that serve recreational boaters. Typical boating improvements include launch ramps, boarding floats, parking lots, restrooms, transient moorage, and other items needed by boaters.

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