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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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For the whole group
A resort, a real kitchen, and a wide flat beach.
Wide, walkable beaches, multi-room cottages with real kitchens, and resort programming when you want it.
Design This TripSalishan Coastal Lodge is the standout for families: 250 forested acres on Siletz Bay with an indoor pool, golf, an aerial ropes course in the trees, and easy access to the broad flat sands at Gleneden Beach. The Inn at Cape Kiwanda puts every room in front of Haystack Rock and the dory beach.
Days that work for every age
Fill days with tide pooling at Yaquina Head, a dune-buggy tour out of Florence, the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, and crabbing off a bay dock. Choose a cottage or suite with a full kitchen so dinner with tired kids never becomes a logistics problem, and bring in a private chef on the nights you want one.
A real kitchen means easy dinners in without giving up the resort's spa and pool. We arrange the cribs, the grocery pre-stock, the gear, and the activities that flex around nap time.
What’s inside
- Forest resort with pool, golf, and a ropes course
- Wide, gentle beaches steps away
- Tide pooling, dune buggies, and the aquarium
- Crabbing off a bay dock with gear arranged
- Grocery pre-stock, cribs, and a private chef on call
A sample rhythm
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Settle in
Resort check-in, a grocery pre-stock waiting, an easy first beach afternoon.
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Active mornings
Tide pools, dunes, or crabbing, paced around the youngest.
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Slow afternoons
The pool or forest trails, then ice cream in town.
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Dinners in
A private chef in the cottage, one big night out on the water.
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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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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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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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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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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