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Quick take: Living on the Oregon Coast is amazing, but it comes with real weather and safety risks. Winter storms, king tides, flooding, landslides, wildfire smoke, and tsunami preparedness are part of coastal life. This guide gives you practical, official, safety-first steps to help you settle in with confidence. If you’re moving to the Oregon […]

We’re excited to shine a spotlight on Barrington Well Drilling, LLC in this edition of Meet Your Neighbor. At The Oregon Coast Guide, we love highlighting the hardworking local businesses that help our coastal communities thrive, and Barrington Well Drilling is a great example of the skill, reliability, and dedication that make a lasting difference. […]

If you stand on the overlooks of Ecola State Park on a particularly rough winter evening, you might see it: a jagged, lonely tooth of basalt rising out of the churning Pacific. This is Tillamook Rock, or as the locals and keepers have called it for over a century, "Terrible Tilly." It’s arguably the most […]

If you’ve ever spent a morning at the Charleston docks, you know the sound. It’s the low, rhythmic groan of weathered hulls against wood, the cry of gulls cutting through the salt air, and the steady, quiet hum of a community that lives and breathes by the tide. But if you sit long enough at […]

Perched high atop a rugged basalt cliff on the central Oregon Coast, the Heceta Head Lighthouse is often cited as the most photographed lighthouse in the United States. Its majestic white tower and the vibrant Fresnel lens, which casts a beam visible 21 miles out to sea, are the stuff of travel brochures and postcards. […]

There is a particular kind of magic that settles over the Oregon Coast when the marine layer rolls in. The world turns a ghostly shade of grey, the rhythmic boom of the Pacific surf becomes a muffled heartbeat, and the jagged sea stacks begin to look like skeletal fingers reaching out of the depths. It […]

When the mist rolls off the Columbia River and tangles itself in the ornate gables of Astoria’s Victorian mansions, the town undergoes a profound transformation. The vibrant maritime hub shifts into something far more mysterious. It’s no wonder that filmmakers seeking a sense of breathtaking dread and majestic isolation have long flocked to the northernmost […]

The Oregon Coast has always been a master of duality. By day, it is a vibrant and breathtaking landscape of towering sea stacks and golden dunes. But as the sun dips below the horizon and the legendary coastal fog begins to crawl across the cliffs, the atmosphere shifts. The air grows heavy, the ocean’s roar […]

There is a specific kind of chill that only the Oregon Coast can provide: a damp, bone-deep cold that rolls in with the sea fog and settles over the rugged basalt cliffs. It’s a landscape that feels ancient, whispered, and perhaps a little bit haunted. It is no wonder, then, that when director Gore Verbinski […]

There is an undeniable magic to the Oregon Coast. It is a place where the breathtaking cliffs meet the untamed Pacific, and where the majestic forests are frequently blanketed in a thick, vibrant layer of silver mist. While most travelers come here for the serene sunsets and world-class tide pooling, filmmakers have long recognized the […]