Northern Oregon Coast Day Trip

Northern Oregon Coast Day Trip

This day trip is a customized tour along a section of rugged coastline along Oregon's northern coast. There will be one or two town stops, and multiple stops at headlands and beaches. After your pickup in Portland, we'll discuss the interests of people in the group, and your guide will customize the itinerary to those interests. Regardless of interests, the trip will include driving the Pacific Coast Scenic Byway with a short hike through oldgrowth Sitka spruce forest, beach time, tide pools, sea stacks, viewpoint stops, and a lunch stop in a charming coastal town. If group interest allows, stops with a more technological history focus may be made, such as the Tillamook Air Museum, Tillamook Cheese Factory, or Camp 18. You'll be back in Portland early enough for dinner.

- Please be prepared for whatever the weather may be when your tour runs
(e.g. rain gear, sunglasses, hat, extra layers, sunscreen).
- Wear shoes that you don't mind getting sandy and wet.

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Camp 18 Museum, 42362 Highway 26, Seaside, OR 97138-6162

Here you'll see what fueled the economy of Portland's Golden Age, 1905-1930, at this roadside museum of logging artifacts. You'll also have time to peruse the gift shop.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Ecola State Park, Off Hwy. 101, Cannon Beach, OR

Capture a spectacular view of the famous sea stack-studded coastline, featured in movies, and the furthest south that members of the Lewis & Clark expedition ventured.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Cannon Beach, OR 97110

You'll have time to explore the galleries, boutique shops, cafes, restaurants, beach, and Haystack Rock.

Duration: 3 hours

Stop At: Haystack Rock, Us 101, Cannon Beach, OR 97110

Haystock Rock, the most famous sea stack in Oregon, is included as part of a stop at Cannon Beach. You are free to allocate your time among the galleries, boutique shops, cafes, restaurants, beach, and Haystack Rock, as you desire.

Duration: 3 hours

Stop At: Hug Point State Park, Highway 101, Cannon Beach, OR

A mystical beach with sandstone caves, a waterfall, and a 19th Century road carved into the headland.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Oswald West State Park, Cannon Beach, OR 97130

We'll make stops at Short Sands Beach and Neahkahnie Viewpoint while passing through the largest state park on the Oregon Coast.

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Short Sands Beach, Manzanita, OR 97130

Take an enchanting hike through an oldgrowth forest harboring massive Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis), western redcedar (Thuja plicata), and Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziessii) to a secluded little beach with a waterfall and filled with surfers in wet suits year-round. This is the legendary Smuggler's Cove, formed by Cape Falcon, where The Goonies pirates are rumored to have landed and buried their treasure.

Duration: 35 minutes

Stop At: Neahkahnie Mountain, Oregon

We'll stop at a viewpoint off US 101 on the slopes of Neahkahnie Mountain, overlooking the town of Manzanita and an endless coast of white waves to the south.

Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Tillamook Air Museum, 6030 Hangar Rd, Tillamook, OR 97141-9641

Tillamook is a town for Americana. Here we could stop at the Tillamook Cheese Factory and taste some cheese and observe the process of mass-production cheese making, and/or visit the Tillamook Air Museum, which is housed inside a WWII-era blimp hangar that happens to be the largest clear-span wooden structure in the world.

Duration: 2 hours

Stop At: Cape Meares Lighthouse, 3500 Cape Meares Loop, Tillamook, OR 97141

An 1890s lighthouse. A spectacular view to the south. An 800-year-old Sitka spruce that is the largest in Oregon, and 10th largest spruce in the world.

Duration: 35 minutes

Pass By: Cape Lookout State Park, 13000 Whiskey Creek Rd US 101 to Three Capes Scenic Drive Oceanside, Tillamook, OR 97141-9499

The site of a crash by a B-17 Flying Fortress during WWII.

Stop At: Cape Kiwanda State Natural Area, Pacific City, OR

Sculpted sandstone, tidal pools, and the fourth tallest offshore monolith in the world; Cape Kiwanda is one of the most breathtaking spots along the Oregon Coast, and that's saying a lot. You'll also have the opportunity to slalom down the tallest sand dune on the Oregon Coast, at 240 ft (73 m).

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Neskowin Beach State Recreation Site, Neskowin, OR 97149

Spend some time on the magical Neskowin Beach, where you can propose to your lover at Proposal Rock, a tide-dictated island with an arch. At low tide you may even see the Neskowin Ghost Forest, which tells stories of the past.

Duration: 30 minutes

Stop At: Proposal Rock, Neskowin, OR

Spend some time on the magical Neskowin Beach, where you can propose to your lover at Proposal Rock, a tide-dictated island with an arch. At low tide you may even see the Neskowin Ghost Forest, which tells stories of the past.

Duration: 30 minutes