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Cannon Beach
Stephanie Inn
An adults-only oceanfront inn at the foot of Haystack Rock, with fireside rooms, a four-course prix fixe dining room, and a daily wine social.
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Oregon · The Coast
The wild coast, planned in full.
The lodges, the tables, the boats and the headlands. Every top-rated way to experience the Oregon Coast, curated and handled by a private concierge.
The destination, curated
The Oregon Coast is 363 miles of public shoreline, basalt sea stacks, and old-growth capes. The best of it takes a boat, a reservation held weeks ahead, and someone who knows the tide tables and which headland catches the light.
Ways to experience The Oregon Coast
Six trips, one place.
Start with the version of The Oregon Coast you came for. Each is designed end to end, with the activities and stays that fit.
For two
Luxury honeymoon
Begin at the foot of Haystack Rock, end on a quiet southern headland, and let someone else carry every reservation in between.
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For the whole group
Private family villa
Wide, walkable beaches, multi-room cottages with real kitchens, and resort programming when you want it.
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For the active traveler
Adventure & wellness
The Oregon Coast rewards a rhythm of effort and recovery in the same day.
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For private groups
Private group retreat
Every signature Oregon Coast experience has a private version. We assemble them into one seamless week.
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For the food-led
Food & chef experience
The Oregon Coast eats straight from the water and the farms behind it. We build the trip around it.
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Mobility-friendly
Accessible luxury
The coast's grandest scenery, planned to minimize rough terrain and long transfers.
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Coastal lodges that hold the shoreline.
From a Cannon Beach inn at the foot of Haystack Rock to a forested resort on Siletz Bay, these are the stays an Oregon Coast trip is built around.
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Pacific City
Headlands Coastal Lodge & Spa
Pacific City's modern oceanfront flagship below Cape Kiwanda, with a full spa, oceanview rooms and cottages, and adventure coaches on call.
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Gleneden Beach
Salishan Coastal Lodge
A forested resort on Siletz Bay across 250 acres, with a links golf course, indoor pool, spa, and an aerial ropes course in the trees.
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Gold Beach
Tu Tu' Tun Lodge
An intimate riverfront lodge on the Rogue River, a Relais & Chateaux-caliber retreat known for jet-boat access and a seasonal chef's table.
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Newberg
The Allison Inn & Spa
The wine country flagship an hour inland, with a 15,000-square-foot spa and the acclaimed Jory restaurant, an ideal pre or post coast stay.
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Pacific City
Inn at Cape Kiwanda
Every room faces Haystack Rock and the dory beach, a comfortable oceanfront base across the road from Pelican Brewing.
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Fresh catch, dory boats, and bay-house views.
The Oregon Coast eats from the water it sits on: dock-to-table oysters, line-caught rockfish, and Dungeness crab. We hold the hard reservations.
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Lincoln City
The Bay House
A refined waterfront dining room on Siletz Bay, the coast's longtime special-occasion table, with a deep Oregon and global wine list.
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Newport
Local Ocean Seafoods
A fish-market restaurant on Newport's working bayfront, serving the day's catch straight off the boats tied up outside.
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Cannon Beach
The Wayfarer Restaurant & Lounge
Oceanfront dining with a Haystack Rock view, Pacific Northwest seafood and a strong list, one of Cannon Beach's defining tables.
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Cannon Beach
Newmans at 988
Chef John Newman's intimate French-Italian room, a longstanding fine-dining destination just off the main street in Cannon Beach.
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The Dining Room at Stephanie Inn
A four-course Pacific Northwest prix fixe with ocean views, sourcing coastal seafood and Willamette Valley produce and wine.
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Depoe Bay
Restaurant Beck
Chef Justin Wills's clifftop tasting-menu room at the Whale Cove Inn, a multiple James Beard semifinalist over Depoe Bay.
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Haystack Rock, headlands, and a blowhole.
This is a shoreline of monoliths and basalt capes. These are the iconic stops we route guests through, timed to the light and the tide.
Coastal viewpoints are most dramatic around sunset; check tide tables before walking out to sea stacks or tide pools.
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Cannon Beach
Cannon Beach & Haystack Rock
The coast's signature image, a 235-foot sea stack ringed by tide pools and nesting puffins on a broad, walkable beach.
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Ecola State Park
Forested headland trails and the famous overlook down the coastline toward Haystack Rock and the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse.
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Newport
Yaquina Head Lighthouse
Oregon's tallest lighthouse on a basalt point, with one of the coast's richest rocky tide-pool areas just below.
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Otter Rock
Devils Punchbowl
A churning bowl of seawater in a collapsed sea cave near Otter Rock, dramatic at high tide and a tide-pool flat at low.
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Yachats
Cape Perpetua Scenic Area
The highest viewpoint accessible by car on the coast, above Thor's Well and the Spouting Horn surf features at Yachats.
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Florence to Coos Bay
Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area
Forty miles of towering coastal sand dunes, the largest expanse in North America, rising to 500 feet above the sea.
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Gray whales, jet boats, and the bays.
Depoe Bay calls itself the whale-watching capital of the coast, and the Rogue River jet boats run deep into the wilderness. We book the best of both.
Gray whales pass in large numbers in late December and again in spring; a resident pod summers off Depoe Bay.
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Depoe Bay
Tradewinds Charters
A family-run operator since 1938 out of the world's smallest navigable harbor, running whale-watching and ocean fishing trips.
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Depoe Bay
Whale Research EcoExcursions (Carrie Newell)
Whale-watching led by a marine biologist on a small Zodiac, getting close to the resident summer gray whales off Depoe Bay.
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Gold Beach
Jerry's Rogue Jets
The classic Rogue River jet-boat excursion, running up to 104 miles into the federally designated Wild and Scenic wilderness.
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Newport
Marine Discovery Tours
A 65-foot vessel out of Newport's Yaquina Bay for sea-life and whale cruises, with bay ecology and crabbing demonstrations.
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Depoe Bay
Whale's Tail Charters
Small-group whale-watching out of Depoe Bay's tiny harbor, a low-density way to reach the resident summer gray whales.
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Newport
Newport Belle Sternwheeler
A moored sternwheeler on the Newport bayfront, a quiet way to take in Yaquina Bay and the working harbor from the water.
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Tide pools, crabbing, and the dunes.
The one-of-a-kind coast days: kneeling at a tide pool, pulling crab pots in a bay, and cresting a 400-foot dune by sandboard or buggy.
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Yachats
Tide pooling at Cape Perpetua
Among the richest rocky intertidal on the coast, sea stars, anemones, and urchins in the protected pools at low tide.
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Newport & Garibaldi
Crabbing & clamming on the bays
Drop pots for Dungeness crab off a bay dock or dig the flats for razor clams, with guides and gear arranged in your name.
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Florence
Sandland Adventures
Guided dune-buggy tours and rentals on the Oregon Dunes, the signature thrill of the central coast's sand country.
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Florence
Sand Master Park
The first sandboarding park in the country, with lessons and board rentals on sculpted dunes above Florence.
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Pacific City
Cape Kiwanda dory beach
Watch the flat-bottomed dory fleet launch straight off the sand below the great dune, a fishing tradition found nowhere else.
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Tillamook County
Three Capes Scenic Drive
A backroad loop linking Cape Meares, Cape Lookout, and Cape Kiwanda, the coast's most concentrated string of headlands.
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Headland trails and old-growth forest.
From a forested cape with an old-growth trail to clifftop overlooks and a state park headland, paced to any fitness level.
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Tillamook County
Cape Lookout Trail
A 5-mile round trip out a forested headland that juts two miles into the sea, among the best whale-watching walks on the coast.
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Cannon Beach
Ecola State Park to Indian Beach
A clifftop section of the Oregon Coast Trail through Sitka spruce, linking the Ecola overlook to secluded Indian Beach.
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Yachats
Cape Perpetua to Giant Spruce
A gentle forest walk to a 500-year-old Sitka spruce, with the option to climb to the highest coastal overlook.
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Manzanita
Oswald West State Park & Cape Falcon
Old-growth rainforest trails to the Cape Falcon viewpoint and down to the surf cove at Short Sand Beach.
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Manzanita
Neahkahnie Mountain
A climb to 1,600 feet for one of the highest viewpoints on the Oregon Coast Trail, looking down the surf line toward Manzanita.
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Lincoln City
God's Thumb at The Knoll
A grassy headland trail to a thumb-shaped promontory above the surf, one of the central coast's most rewarding short hikes.
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Coastal spas and forest-edge calm.
The Oregon Coast is built for the slow restore: cedar-scented spas, soaking pools, and the long quiet of fog and surf.
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Pacific City
The Spa at Headlands
A full-service oceanfront spa at Headlands Lodge, with locally inspired treatments and a relaxation room over the surf.
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Gleneden Beach
The Spa at Salishan
A forest-set spa within the resort, pairing treatments with an indoor pool, sauna, and the quiet of 250 wooded acres.
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Newberg
The Spa at The Allison
A 15,000-square-foot wine-country spa an hour inland, a celebrated restore to bookend the coast portion of a trip.
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Cannon Beach
The Spa at Stephanie Inn
In-room and in-suite spa treatments at the adults-only oceanfront inn, restorative bodywork steps from Haystack Rock.
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Cannon Beach
Sea Sphere Wellness
Boutique massage and bodywork in the heart of Cannon Beach, an easy add-on to a fireside oceanfront stay.
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Yachats
Salt-air storm watching
Quiet Yachats is the coast's contemplative corner, fireside rooms and big winter surf for the slowest kind of restore.
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Salmon, halibut, and Rogue steelhead.
Charter boats run out of Newport, Depoe Bay, and Garibaldi for salmon, bottomfish, and halibut, while the Rogue River is legendary for steelhead.
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Newport
Newport Tradewinds
A long-running Newport charter operation off Yaquina Bay for salmon, halibut, tuna, and bottomfish, with crabbing combos.
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Garibaldi
Garibaldi Charters
Tillamook Bay-based ocean charters for salmon, lingcod, and rockfish, plus seasonal tuna runs offshore.
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Depoe Bay
Dockside Charters
Family-run fishing and crabbing charters out of Depoe Bay's tiny harbor, well regarded for bottomfish and salmon trips.
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Gold Beach
Rogue River steelhead guides
Guided drift trips on the Wild and Scenic Rogue for salmon and steelhead, arranged through the riverfront lodge.
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Garibaldi
Tillamook Bay crabbing
One of the most productive bays on the coast for Dungeness crab, with dock setups and boat charters arranged in your name.
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Newport
Yaquina Bay oyster & clam flats
Dig the Yaquina flats for clams or pair a bay charter with a stop for Pacific oysters grown in the estuary.
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Timing is the whole trip.
Best overall months
July to October brings the driest, sunniest weather and the calmest seas, the prime window for the open Pacific Northwest coast.
Gray whale migration
Late December for the southbound peak and March to June for the northbound, with a resident pod off Depoe Bay all summer.
Storm watching
November through February brings dramatic surf and storm-watching, a cozy fireside-and-spa season at the oceanfront lodges.
Check the tides
Tide pools and sea stacks reveal themselves at low tide; plan beach walks and Cape Perpetua surf features around the tables.
Your The Oregon Coast
Let us build the The Oregon Coast you came for.
Tell us the shape of the trip you can already picture. A concierge fills in everything still open and sends back a plan, not a quote.