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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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Mobility-friendly
Dramatic coast, on smooth ground.
The coast's grandest scenery, planned to minimize rough terrain and long transfers.
Design This TripSeveral state parks loan beach wheelchairs, and the wide, firm sands at Gleneden Beach and Pacific City are among the easiest to reach. Salishan Coastal Lodge pairs well as a single resort base with accessible rooms, an indoor pool, and level, paved grounds, which keeps transfers to a minimum.
Big views without rough trails
For smooth-terrain sightseeing, the drive-up viewpoint atop Cape Perpetua, the paved overlooks at Yaquina Head, and the railed Devils Punchbowl deliver dramatic scenery without rough trails. Many whale-watching boats out of Depoe Bay offer boarding assistance for guests who can transfer.
We confirm room and bathroom layouts in advance, arrange beach wheelchairs and equipment, and choose the experiences and routes that keep the trip grand and the ground smooth.
What’s inside
- Beach wheelchairs and firm, wide sands
- A single oceanfront resort base to limit transfers
- Drive-up Cape Perpetua and paved Yaquina Head overlooks
- Whale-watching boats with boarding assistance
- Room layouts and equipment confirmed in advance
A sample rhythm
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One base
A single accessible resort with level grounds on the central coast.
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Smooth scenery
Drive-up headland overlooks and railed viewpoints.
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Gentle water
A wide firm beach and a whale boat with boarding assistance.
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Restore
Level spa grounds and a quiet oceanfront close.
The The Oregon Coastwe’d build in
The pieces that fit this trip.
Where to stay
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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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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Cannon Beach
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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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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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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