My dad grew up in coos bay and I still have a lot of family down there. I have been riding down there since I can remember. It's sad that a lot of the dunes I remember riding as a kid are already shut down. The facts are that the part that is shut down for horse riding and hiking barley gets used, and is also way to big of an area for them. They think riding at the dunes is destroying the area, when in reality we are helping it by keeping grasses and noxious weeds down. If you look at pics from the 60's it is all sand with no grass or other shit. They need to start giving the dunes back not taking more away when the sport is growing. That whole snowy plover thing was a crock of shit. That's my 2 cents.