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There are plenty of places on the Oregon Coast where dinner is an event. You make a reservation, put on something slightly nicer than your beach hoodie, and settle in for a long meal. Bell Buoy of Seaside isn't really that kind of place. And that's exactly why we love...
Some Oregon Coast trips are built around a hotel room and a restaurant reservation. This one is built around a campsite, a baited crab ring, and the possibility that dinner might come out of Nehalem Bay. I went to Kelly’s Brighton Marina last year, and I had an...
By late September, Oregon starts doing half the work for a Twilight road trip. Evergreen hills turn nearly black beneath low clouds. The Columbia goes pewter. The Coast trades its summer brightness for salt spray, wind, and that silvery light that makes everything...
There are Oregon Coast camping trips where you pull into your site, unfold a couple of chairs and spend the evening staring at the ocean. And then there are camping trips where you climb into a boat, drop crab rings into an Oregon bay, haul up dinner and return to...
Hug Point is open again. That sentence alone would have been enough for a lot of us after a closed spring break and a summer spent driving past barricades on Highway 101. Oregon Parks and Recreation Department confirms the wayside is open, with no day-use parking fee...
When people on the West Coast start talking about the Big One, the conversation usually runs straight to California and the San Andreas Fault. It is the famous one. The one most of us grew up seeing in disaster movies and hearing about on the news. But Oregon has its...
That $79-a-night Oregon Coast rental can look like a screaming deal right up until you start doing the math. Maybe there is a cleaning charge. Then taxes. Maybe there is a booking or service fee. The cheapest rate only applies on a Tuesday in January. The property...
Paid partnership disclosure: Oregon Coast Aquarium is a paid partner of That Oregon Life. The Aquarium did not write this itinerary; That Oregon Life retains editorial control over the route, limitations and recommendations. Rain on the Oregon Coast is not a reason to...
Paid partnership disclosure: Oregon Coast Aquarium is a paid partner of That Oregon Life. The Aquarium did not write this itinerary; That Oregon Life retains editorial control over the route, caveats and recommendations. The best Newport day with kids is not a stack...
Wheeler is one of those Oregon Coast towns you can drive through a dozen times without ever really stopping. Highway 101 cuts right through the middle of this tiny community on Nehalem Bay, and with Manzanita just up the road and Rockaway Beach a few miles south,...
There are plenty of reasons to wander an Oregon beach in late October. The Pacific gets moodier, fall storms begin rolling in with more frequency, and those gray skies and crashing waves somehow make a warm drink and a long walk on the sand feel even better. But this...
There are weekends on the Oregon Coast when the wind is something you plan around, and then there are weekends when the wind becomes the whole reason to go. From September 25 through 27, 2026, Lincoln City will turn its famously breezy shoreline into a playground of...