Cohassett Beach, WA

Cohassett Beach is a Grays Harbor County census-designated place and a historic part of Westport, not a separate incorporated town. The name comes from Cohasset, Massachusetts, and the place occupies the sandy edge of the Washington coast where Westport’s roads meet the ocean. State Route 105 is the main regional bearing, with Westport handling the nearby harbor, commercial strip, and services.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Cohassett Beach was a summer artists’ retreat, with a few original homes remaining. Several of those original homes still mark that earlier settlement pattern. Shoreline accretion has pushed the beach west and changed what once counted as oceanfront, so the historic name and present-day subdivision do not line up perfectly. That shifting shoreline is part of the local scoop: Cohassett Beach is a named community inside Westport whose history is tied to artists, dunes, and a coast that keeps rewriting the map. Keep Westport as the practical reference, then look for the older Cohassett name in the neighborhood’s history.