Ocean Shores is a city in Grays Harbor County, Washington, United States. The population was 6,715 at the 2020 census.

The City of Ocean Shores occupies the Point Brown peninsula on the Washington coast. Long since the introduction of European explorers and settlers, the peninsula was used by the various local tribes for trading and other purposes. The Chinook, Chehalis, and Quinault tribes used the area, as without difficulty as others that now make up the Quinault Indian Nation.

On May 7, 1792, Captain Robert Gray sailed into the niche and named the Place Bullfinch Harbor. Later, Captain George Vancouver renamed the Place Grays Harbor after Captain Gray. The first customary white settler upon the Point was Matthew McGee, who settled in the further on 1860s. He sold the southern part of the peninsula to A.O. Damon in 1878 for a trading supply middle whose dock lengthy into the Oyehut channel. A.O. Damon took greater than the entire peninsula from McGee, and the land was passed along to his grandson, Ralph Minard, who used the area as a cattle ranch from 1929 until he sold to the Ocean Shores Development Corporation in 1960 for $1,000,000.

At the grow old the Washington State legislature was following legalizing some forms of gambling. In expectation of a big casino development, the Ocean Shores Development Corporation opened their sale of lots in a travel announcement parked in the dunes. Soon the word press forward about the California-style proceed 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 lonely as the road construction crews began to lay out the great road system. Even though the first roads were single-handedly 20 miles (32 km) in length, the downtown Place had mercury vapor lights to fake that this was a successful city. In the first year 25 homes were constructed and their owners had charter connection certificates in the Ocean Shores Community Club.