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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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For two
An Oregon Coast honeymoon, paced for the two of you.
Begin at the foot of Haystack Rock, end on a quiet southern headland, and let someone else carry every reservation in between.
Design This TripAn Oregon Coast honeymoon works best as two acts. Open in Cannon Beach at the adults-only Stephanie Inn, where fireside oceanfront rooms look straight onto Haystack Rock, then move south to the intimate Whale Cove or Headlands at Pacific City for clifftop quiet and dramatic surf.
The moments worth planning around
Build the trip around the four-course prix fixe in the Stephanie Inn dining room, a clifftop tasting menu at Restaurant Beck above Depoe Bay, a gray-whale sail, and a couples' treatment at the oceanfront Headlands spa. Cap the slow evenings walking the tide-pool flats below Haystack Rock at low tide.
We hold the hard reservations, sequence the two stays so the coastal drive works in your favor, and keep the days soft enough that the only decision left is where to watch the sun go down.
What’s inside
- Two-stay arc: Cannon Beach drama, then a quiet southern headland
- Adults-only oceanfront rooms at Stephanie Inn
- A gray-whale sail out of Depoe Bay
- Couples' spa at the oceanfront Headlands
- The coast's best tables, reserved
A sample rhythm
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Arrive north
Settle into Cannon Beach, a slow first evening and a quiet dinner in town.
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The big day
A gray-whale sail, then a couples' treatment to land it.
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Move south
Relocate to a clifftop inn for surf, headlands, and tasting menus.
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Slow close
Spa mornings, a sunset over Haystack Rock, nothing rushed.
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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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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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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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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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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Luxury honeymoon
Let’s design it around you.
Share what you can already picture. A concierge fills in everything still open and sends back a plan, not a quote.