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Manzanita is a coastal city in Tillamook County, Oregon, located on U.S. Route 101 about 25 miles equidistant from Seaside to the north and Tillamook to the south, and the 2020 census recorded its population as 603, up from 598 in 2010.

Manzanita was incorporated on April 15, 1946, according to the Oregon Blue Book.

Manzanita was platted as a beach resort in 1912, and its post office was established in 1914 and named for the manzanita plants that grow in the area.

The indigenous Tillamook people lived along the Oregon coast, including the Manzanita area at the tidewaters of Nehalem Bay, for about 12,000 years, suffered from smallpox and other illnesses brought by white settlers, and the few remaining Tillamook people were relocated to the Siletz and Grand Ronde reservations in the 1850s.

As of the 2020 census, Manzanita's median age was 65.8 years, with 5.6 percent of residents under the age of 18 and 52.1 percent aged 65 or older.

Manzanita Beach stretches about seven miles from the foot of Neahkahnie Mountain to the tip of Nehalem Spit, with grassy dunes lining the sand and Neahkahnie Mountain sheltering the beach so there is often less fog than in other nearby parts of the coast.

Nehalem Bay State Park, just south of Manzanita, sits on a narrow sand spit at the mouth of the Nehalem River with the Pacific Ocean on one side and Nehalem Bay on the other, offering overnight camping, horseback riding, hiking, kayaking, fishing, crabbing, and bird watching.

Oswald West State Park, a few miles north of Manzanita, spans 2,484 acres including hiking trails and Short Sand Beach, a popular surfing spot and secluded beach surrounded by coastal cliffs with tide pools.

Manzanita covers 0.82 square miles, all of it land.

Manzanita is a walkable town offering boutique shopping, golfing, surfing, horseback riding, kayaking, paddle boarding, and bicycle rentals, as well as a seasonal farmers market.