Ocean Shores is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. The population was 5,569 at the 2010 census.

The City of Ocean Shores occupies the Point Brown peninsula on the Washington coast. Long previously the start of European explorers and settlers, the peninsula was used by the various local tribes for trading and additional purposes. The Chinook, Chehalis, and Quinault tribes used the area, as with ease as others that now make up the Quinault Indian Nation.

On May 7, 1792, Captain Robert Gray sailed into the recess and named the Place Bullfinch Harbor. Later, Captain George Vancouver renamed the Place Grays Harbor after Captain Gray. The first established white settler on the Point was Matthew McGee, who arranged in the prematurely 1860s. He sold the southern allowance of the peninsula to A.O. Damon in 1878 for a trading supply center whose dock Elongated into the Oyehut channel. A.O. Damon took on height of the entire peninsula from McGee, and the home was passed along to his grandson, Ralph Minard, who used the Place as a cattle ranch from 1929 until he sold to the Ocean Shores Development Corporation in 1960 for $1,000,000.

At the era the Washington State legislature was later than legalizing some forms of gambling. In expectation of a huge casino development, the Ocean Shores Development Corporation opened their sale of lots in a travel want ad parked in the dunes. Soon the word fee about the California-style loan of the place called Ocean Shores. Lots began at $595 and were sold sight unseen from the first plat maps. As the numbers of lots sold rose, the prices rose. Property lots were staked and numbered isolated as the road construction crews began to lay out the loud road system. Even even if the first roads were deserted 20 miles (32 km) in length, the downtown Place had mercury vapor lights to pretense that this was a flourishing city. In the first year 25 homes were build up and their owners had charter association certificates in the Ocean Shores Community Club.

As the move ahead grew, the Ginny Simms Restaurant and Nightclub brought in the Hollywood set. In fact, on its opening night, chartered planes flew occurring a collect contingent of Hollywood stars, and 11,000 people turned out at Bowerman Basin to see the celebrities.