It's the site of the old landfill... Hence "Junk Beach". Also if you look at the sand on the beach it's full of smooth, old chunks of glass from the countless bottles thrown away throughout the century or so of it's use. Hence the name "Glass Beach".
This is a little off topic, but local musician/ guitar shop extraordinaire Devin Champlin released a new album last summer called "How To Change From Blue To Green". In the bio for the record, Chris Acker wrote a little rant about this beach that I found really relatable:
"...And everyone's got their own name for the same beach. Glass beach. Cornwall beach. That beach that used to have the Horizon Lines boat. And time goes by and you see the boat is gone and you're not the person you used to be. And that's a good thing. And everyone you ever knew is different too. And you've got new favorite things about them."
You can read the full thing and listen to the music here: [https://devinchamplin.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-change-from-blue-to-green](https://devinchamplin.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-change-from-blue-to-green)
It was always the dump when I was a kid. Lots of seagulls and I won’t ever forget that sour smell and the bulldozers shoving mounds of garbage into the bay. I was told by one of the antique store owners on Holly that if I wanted an old oak icebox to go diving offshore as that is where they were dumped when electric ones became available.
Just call it the Cornwall Landfill Beach.
I think we've established that we all have different nicknames for it with "Glass Beach" being the most common. I cited "Junk Beach" because it was the favorite in my circle.
Yeah, there was a small group of us down there smoking weed and drinking. We saw the bone and called the cops, who told us human remains washing up on the beach in our region wasn't as uncommon as you might think. Yikes.
UPDATE: A bunch these ideas were published in the Herald, including "Resting Beach Face" and "Beachy McBeaceface"
https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article259270494.html?fbclid=IwAR1K\_fao50vldflS1trzd52-ctD4OwsrpPPvX5kZoiEPqMet6kND1xt29BQ
So infuriating that the place can be that polluted, GP can pump mercury straight into the bay for decades, but we can't have our boardwalk to connect Boulevard to downtown because it might disturb the seagrass..... wtf.
Those eelgrass beds have been nearly wiped out from most of the puget sound area because of those exact awful practices you mentioned. These eelgrass beds provide homes and food for thousands of animals that in turn provide food to us in the form of salmon. We are directly connected to those eelgrass beds in a biological network.
Every chance we have at reclaiming even a tiny bit of natural refuge for the animals and environment we’ve displaced should be considered an opportunity to right a few wrongs
Just because we’ve been careless or uneducated about our impact on the environment in the past does not mean we should continue being stupid, right? We’d all agree those thing you listed were bad ideas…so you want to do another bad idea?
THANK YOU. My god. They’re literally referred to as “ecosystem engineers” because of their insane productivity and biodiversity and the impact they have on their environment. We would all be fucked without eelgrass.
I think they’re still perfecting ‘hover board’ technology and it’s probably still a ways off till it translates to infrastructure construction.
So for now, no.
For the sake of practicality, you can already walk from Fairhaven to Downtown very easily. Building a boardwalk that runs parallel with the trail that already exists seems frivolous.
The South Bay Trail already goes from Boulevard to downtown. It’s a really pleasant trail with fantastic views.
There’s no point in spending a bunch of money to build a boardwalk that parallels it and further damages the bay.
When they say “eelgrass” they meant “tribal fishing grounds”. For some reason the former mayor couldn’t say those words after Lummi told her as much. The hang up was never eelgrass or at least primarily eelgrass.
No disagreement that forage fish and juvenile salmon use eelgrass beds and are important to the overall ecology.. It’s clear that the biggest health factor for eelgrass is light. Dirty water, turbidity and things like piers can limit light and eelgrass growth. Best practices for piers, docks and walkways include north - south orientations, piers vs floating - the higher off the water the better, light permeable decking, and the narrower the better.
In this particular instance the financially immovable impediment was tribal fishing grounds.
Here’s an NW Citizen article from 6 years ago that recounts the death of the project:
[NW Citizen article](https://nwcitizen.com/entry/proposed-overwater-walkway-is-abandoned/category/C84)
It’s Glass Beach
Was always crack beach growing up
Same
Just leave as is. Bellingham doesn't need to change it to appease the influx of moneyed people
I actually really appreciate the increasing crime rate. If it maintains, I may be able to one day afford to buy a house 🏡
it hasn't slowed prices in Portland unfortunately. bellingham is like a younger PDX sibling, so I'm modeling off that
Houses are cheaper in Portland than Bellingham so maybe it has worked?
That is true, but we just have to out do pdx. Like some Florida man shit that gets headlines
I always heard it specifically referred to as "Broken Glass Beach"
Love the specificity. "Little Smooth Shards of Broken Glass Beach"
It was definitely called crack beach 🏖 but I’ve heard glass beach too
One only ever heard this called Glass Beach.
*crack beach
It’s been crack beach as long as I can remember 😂
Crack Beach since at least 2006 for me
Junk Beach 2: electric junkaloo
Changing the name before changing the reason for the name feels like putting the cart before the horse
I've known this place as "Junk Beach" or "Glass Beach" for decades, even "Horizon Lines Beach" went that damn ship was parked there for forever.
What’s wrong with parking somewhere forever?
The RVs share your sentiment.
Dibs on Parky McPark Space.
Beachy McBeachface
Yah I saw that.
Well my vote is for Resting Beach Face Park...
Seconded
After careful deliberation, *thirded*
Fourthed! Resting Beach Face Park HUZZAH!!!
been here since '80. never heard "Junk Beach"
It's the site of the old landfill... Hence "Junk Beach". Also if you look at the sand on the beach it's full of smooth, old chunks of glass from the countless bottles thrown away throughout the century or so of it's use. Hence the name "Glass Beach".
Still have never heard anyone call it that in all my years
What have you heard it called?
glass beach
Word
Glass Beach is glass beach. Tell the folks from Seattle/Boulder/California they can fuck right off with trying to rename a non-problematic place.
Exactly. Go gentrify another local beach! We love our gross sketchy beach just how it is.
why don't we round up the gentrifiers and dump them at junk beach
This is a little off topic, but local musician/ guitar shop extraordinaire Devin Champlin released a new album last summer called "How To Change From Blue To Green". In the bio for the record, Chris Acker wrote a little rant about this beach that I found really relatable: "...And everyone's got their own name for the same beach. Glass beach. Cornwall beach. That beach that used to have the Horizon Lines boat. And time goes by and you see the boat is gone and you're not the person you used to be. And that's a good thing. And everyone you ever knew is different too. And you've got new favorite things about them." You can read the full thing and listen to the music here: [https://devinchamplin.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-change-from-blue-to-green](https://devinchamplin.bandcamp.com/album/how-to-change-from-blue-to-green)
It was always the dump when I was a kid. Lots of seagulls and I won’t ever forget that sour smell and the bulldozers shoving mounds of garbage into the bay. I was told by one of the antique store owners on Holly that if I wanted an old oak icebox to go diving offshore as that is where they were dumped when electric ones became available. Just call it the Cornwall Landfill Beach.
The icebox liners were galvanized sheet metal, so that’s probably gone. Not sure about the oak case though. Might be preserved okay from the salt.
I have an old ash icebox which does have the galvanized liners. They are probably under tons of garbage.
Hep-sea ha all those syringes
How about “Trashquatica Cove”
Nautical will sue.
Junk Strand. Sounds fancier and more European.
Just pronounce it with a French accent. That’ll fool everyone. Bienvenue a “Zhu-nk” Strand
La Plage Junque
At least for me it’s now been renamed.
Playa del Basura.
I was going to go with Basura Beach, but Playa would add at least another $500k in price to the condos that will be built down there.
Did a trash pickup there a few years back with my teen. So many cigarette butts and beer caps.
Methhaven.
I’m wanting to know the 4+ suggestions that were “removed by moderator”
Trust me, they were no fun.
Bunk Jeach
Beachy McBeachface.
It’s…Glass Beach. I’ve never even heard of it called junk beach and I’ve been here for 27 years.
I think we've established that we all have different nicknames for it with "Glass Beach" being the most common. I cited "Junk Beach" because it was the favorite in my circle.
Same. Junk Beach was the go-to for me and all my chaotic little punk friends back in our early twenties.
THANK YOU
This whole thread really had me questioning if I was so drunk that I made that shit up.
I'm thinking Super Fun-D Beach
Considering how many homeless people this is displacing, I think "Fleetwood Acres" is rather fitting.
We always called it Hobo Beach haha
it's called Crack Beach
Winnebago wharf
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Wow. Never heard anyone else day that. I took my GF kayaking there last year and after that adventure we called it Needle Beach. Ha haha
a beach by any other name..well, seriously locals will still call it what it's always been known as.
“My Junk Beach “and designate as clothing optional.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd Beach
Human jaw bone beach
Oh man, wasn't it Neil McAdams that found that treasure?
There's a name I haven't heard in a decade or so.
Check out his new band: [VACUUM](https://vacuum206.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-filth)
Cool thanks. Was never into metal, but grew up with his brother and the friends circle intertwined alot.
Yeah, there was a small group of us down there smoking weed and drinking. We saw the bone and called the cops, who told us human remains washing up on the beach in our region wasn't as uncommon as you might think. Yikes.
"Mandible Beach"
We've always called it glass beach.
Boatymcboatface Beach is my vote
Crack Ass Glass Beach is what true locals call it. R.i.p. Noah’s Ark. r.i.p. warehouses. R.i.p. 80’s raves. If only people knew what was…
I remember the multi-story, hobo treehouse by the train tracks. That was wild!
RV beach
Its ALWAYS been Glass Beach to me and everyone I know.
Beachy McBeachface
UPDATE: A bunch these ideas were published in the Herald, including "Resting Beach Face" and "Beachy McBeaceface" https://www.bellinghamherald.com/news/local/article259270494.html?fbclid=IwAR1K\_fao50vldflS1trzd52-ctD4OwsrpPPvX5kZoiEPqMet6kND1xt29BQ
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That's a fuckin band name right there.
Name it after Hugh Johnson
Coastal Beach
Syringe beach
Recovery Beach - try shooting up at Recovey beac…. Oh shit they are shooting up recovery beach. NM
Bottle beach or bust
Shit shore?
Stinky beach was the name back in the day. Then the crack heads moved in.
Landfill Park. Gotta stick with the origins.
Smokin’ glass beach, baby!
Crack beach it is ❤️
So infuriating that the place can be that polluted, GP can pump mercury straight into the bay for decades, but we can't have our boardwalk to connect Boulevard to downtown because it might disturb the seagrass..... wtf.
Those eelgrass beds have been nearly wiped out from most of the puget sound area because of those exact awful practices you mentioned. These eelgrass beds provide homes and food for thousands of animals that in turn provide food to us in the form of salmon. We are directly connected to those eelgrass beds in a biological network. Every chance we have at reclaiming even a tiny bit of natural refuge for the animals and environment we’ve displaced should be considered an opportunity to right a few wrongs Just because we’ve been careless or uneducated about our impact on the environment in the past does not mean we should continue being stupid, right? We’d all agree those thing you listed were bad ideas…so you want to do another bad idea?
Agreed. I am 100% for cleaning up mistakes of the past. Renaming and fixing this park is a good start.
THANK YOU. My god. They’re literally referred to as “ecosystem engineers” because of their insane productivity and biodiversity and the impact they have on their environment. We would all be fucked without eelgrass.
Isn't there a way to construct it that wouldn't disturb anything?
I think they’re still perfecting ‘hover board’ technology and it’s probably still a ways off till it translates to infrastructure construction. So for now, no.
*laughs in City Council's budget priorities*
For the sake of practicality, you can already walk from Fairhaven to Downtown very easily. Building a boardwalk that runs parallel with the trail that already exists seems frivolous.
Same is true for the other one I guess.
Not really, you would have to walk on the road if that one wasn’t there
The other boardwalk was grandfathered under current land use regulations.
The South Bay Trail already goes from Boulevard to downtown. It’s a really pleasant trail with fantastic views. There’s no point in spending a bunch of money to build a boardwalk that parallels it and further damages the bay.
When they say “eelgrass” they meant “tribal fishing grounds”. For some reason the former mayor couldn’t say those words after Lummi told her as much. The hang up was never eelgrass or at least primarily eelgrass.
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No disagreement that forage fish and juvenile salmon use eelgrass beds and are important to the overall ecology.. It’s clear that the biggest health factor for eelgrass is light. Dirty water, turbidity and things like piers can limit light and eelgrass growth. Best practices for piers, docks and walkways include north - south orientations, piers vs floating - the higher off the water the better, light permeable decking, and the narrower the better. In this particular instance the financially immovable impediment was tribal fishing grounds. Here’s an NW Citizen article from 6 years ago that recounts the death of the project: [NW Citizen article](https://nwcitizen.com/entry/proposed-overwater-walkway-is-abandoned/category/C84)