Yaquina River

Yaquina River
Yaquina Bay, where the Yaquina River meets the Pacific Ocean
Country	United States
State	Oregon
County	Benton and Lincoln
Source
- location	near Summit, Benton County, Central Oregon Coast Range
- coordinates	44°44′57″N 123°36′06″W / 44.74917°N 123.60167°W / 44.74917; -123.60167
Mouth	Yaquina Bay
- location	Newport, Lincoln County
- elevation	3 ft (1 m)
- coordinates	44°36′44″N 124°01′04″W / 44.61222°N 124.01778°W / 44.61222; -124.01778Coordinates: 44°36′44″N 124°01′04″W / 44.61222°N 124.01778°W / 44.61222; -124.01778
Length	59 mi (95 km)
Basin	252 sq mi (653 km2)
Discharge
- average	248 cu ft/s (7 m3/s)
Location of the mouth of the Yaquina River in Oregon

The Yaquina River (/jəˈkwɪnə/ yə-KWIN-ə) is a stream, 59 miles (95 km) long, on the Pacific coast of the U.S. state of Oregon. It drains an area of the Central Oregon Coast Range west of the Willamette Valley near Newport.

It rises in the mountains west of Corvallis along the county line between Benton and Lincoln counties. It flows south, then generally west, in a highly serpentine course, past Eddyville, Chitwood, Toledo, and Elk City, and enters the Pacific in Yaquina Bay, a broad estuary at Newport.

U.S. Route 20, the Corvallis–Newport highway, follows the river from Eddyville, at the confluence of the river with Little Elk Creek, to slightly downstream of Chitwood. Near the mouth of Yaquina Bay, the river passes under Yaquina Bay Bridge, which carries U.S. Route 101. Other bridges over the river include the Chitwood Covered Bridge at Chitwood.