I dislike Seaside, love Manzanita and Pacific City. Lincoln City is aight if I feel like going to the casino. basically grew up going to Rockaway monthly at my grandparents beach house. It’s a little ghetto in that town but coo
In middle school, I sold like a lot of those worlds finest chocolate bars won a school contest to get one of those houses right on the sand for a few days by Haystack Rock. Such a cool experience to wake up and just walk over
Loved those tricycles as a kid. Sand dunes by Florence are dope too. We had Tae Kwon Do camp out by Ft. Stevens back in the day. We did our morning classes on the sand by the Peter Iredale. Used to go to Beverly Beach a lot too. I think we camped out there. We were always at the coast growing up
I like the beach at oceanside. Not much of a town there, few little restaurants and a coffee shop, so in the summer, its a pain to get food, but love the feel of the area.
Beverly Beach not sure why but that sounds really familiar. I’ve gone to fort Stevens a couple times to clam dig with my girls family.
Gearhart, you can clamdig or start a beach fire using driftwood. My parents and my brother lived in Gearhart directly across from the golf course. My brother owned a vacation home on the river in Seaside. The Seasider, now a Shilo Inn, has the perfect view of the turnaround and the board walk and the ocean, Hate their food and shoddy service. If you can handle the crappy service and poor food the view is spectacular. The view of the ocean from the lounge in the Chinook Winds casino in Lincoln City is truly spectacular. I'd go there once in a while but their food is God awful and it's a God damned casino. I'd love to try the Inn at the Spanish Head and the Salishan Coastal Lodge. The whole Oregon coast along Highway 101 is gorgeous.
I've camped at Beverly Beach. Camping and a parking space are free to disabled Veterans. First, there were a few people next to us that played loud music until the wee hours of the morning then it rained all night and the noisy people next to us continually opened and closed car doors and trunks all night long. If I'd had my hunting rifle they'd have been toast.
Whenever visiting the Oregon Coast....Newport and Pacific City are always on my list. Among other fantastic reasons..... Newport for one of my fave restaurants -- https://www.localocean.net/ Pacific City for one of my fave breweries -- https://pelicanbrewing.com/ When I was a kid, it used to be Cannon Beach. I probably haven't been there in 40 years, though. The traffic got to be too frustrating. Not certain how that is these days. Rockaway and Manzanita were cool, as well. Oh, and for trinket gifts and perhaps a whale watching excursion? Depot Bay, baby!!
Always have a soft spot in my heart for Newport, my grandparents had a house south of there in the early 80's. I like how Newport is a city, and not a tourist trap. Though bayfront can be. I like the idea of being able to shop in a city (they have a Safeway, Walmart and a Fred Meyer there) and not have to drive 30+ minutes to the nearest decent store. I have a cousin (and her husband) who live in Cannon Beach, but when I found out how much their 700 SF shack cost to buy, I about puked. It's not much more than a shell of a house, and it was half a million. Not knocking them for buying it, or what it will end up being once they're done fixing it up (they're both some of those super handy type A personalities)...but cheese and crackers, that's a lot of chedder for something you basically have to gut and rebuild.
