(Nehalem, OR – April 7, 2025)
Currently, Monday morning April 7th, parking lots are open at NCRD, and likely parking lots will be open tomorrow, Tuesday April 8th. The contractors are preparing for the paving which will hopefully happen later this week – Thursday April 10th – or early next week (Monday April 14, Tuesday April 15), depending upon the weather, and will impact all the parking areas.
During the closures, patrons are asked to park at the downtown Nehalem parking lot, at the pickleball courts or the Nehalem Bay Methodist Church – and the WAVE bus will provide free rides to NCRD.
When the parking lots are closed, look for the signage at the parking areas. The Tillamook County Transportation District/The Wave Route 3 bus will provide a fare-free deviation as it travels north and south through Nehalem. Each trip will travel off route to serve the pickleball courts, the parking lot at Hwy. 101 and 7th Street, and the Nehalem Methodist Church lots and take customers to NCRD; then pick up at NCRD and reverse the extra stops along the route. Look for the sandwich boards in each location for the WAVE NCRD bus. Patrons should be at the lots a few minutes before those scheduled times and can board for free after telling the driver they wish to go to NCRD.
Here are the times each Route 3 trip is scheduled to be in Nehalem: 5:53a, 6:15, 8:58, 10:00, 10:58, 12:00noon, 1:38p, 2:00p, 3:28p, 4:30p, 7:13p and 8:15p
A reminder that NCRD is still an active construction zone – no parking in the lower lot by the new aquatics center, and obey all NO PARKING signage. Please bring your patience with you when parking at NCRD and be respectful of the neighbors by not blocking driveways or entrances. If you can carpool to classes or events, please do so to lessen the impacts. Do not utilize the City rights-of-way as parking spaces, especially on the east side of 9th Street. There are cones and signage, please do not remove the cones/signage, and obey the restrictions.
There are likely to be some changes to the paving schedule and we may have to close the parking lots to accommodate equipment, and preparations for the paving and striping.
“We appreciate the patience – we’ll say it again – of our patrons and our neighbors as we negotiate the final stages of the construction of the new Aquatics Center,” said Justin Smith, Executive Director.
If you have questions, please call 855-444-6273, or go to www.ncrd.org.
