Steamboats of the Coquille River

Coquille River steam navigation
LocaleCoos County, Oregon
WaterwayCoquille River
Transit typeSteamboat

The Coquille River starts in the Siskiyou National Forest and flows through the Coquille Valley on its way to the Pacific Ocean. Bandon, Oregon, sits at the mouth of the Coquille River on the Pacific Ocean. Before the era of railroads and later, automobiles, the steamboats on the Coquille River were the major mode of transportation from Bandon to Coquille and Myrtle Point in southern Coos County, Oregon, United States.