Cleawox Lake is accessed through Jessie M. Honeyman State Park, about three miles south of the Siuslaw River bridge. The lake appears fairly small (about 87 acres) but an arm adjacent to the Girl Scout Camp Cleawox (operating since the early 1930s) extends through the dunes north of the State Park. The lake was formed before the last ice age when small coastal streams and melting glaciers were dammed by the emerging sand dunes. The water is fairly clear and with an average depth of 17 feet it warms in the summer to around 70 degrees. Beaver, otter, osprey, blue herons and bald eagles and a variety of fish live in and around the lake. The area was surveyed in 1857 by Harvey Gordon who wrote down the Siuslaw (Sha’yuushtl’a) names as he heard them from local Natives and put his version of them on early maps but failed to record the meaning of the names, which have mostly been lost to history.