The big city stuff falls away, and by Tillamook you start seeing $1.65 a gallon propane at the farmer’s co-op and farm machinery driving down the highway. I thought I was having a Florida flashback.ĭrive an hour or two south down Highway 101, though and the “NO OVERNIGHT PARKING” signs festooning every oceanfront pullout start to disappear. Looking for a better land-to-people ratio, we drove south into Oregon, but the northern part of the Oregon coast is too close to Portland, another megapolis, and it’s all salt water taffy shops, helicopter rides, and posh B&Bs with no vacancy signs. We came out to the coast along US Highway 20, smack into the northern part of the Seattle metro area, all 4.2 million peoples’ worth of it. It’s sandy beaches interspersed with igneous headlands. Never heard of any of these? Good – that means I’m in the right place 😉 This is the view of the stretch of coastline I’m boondocking on from a 500 foot high headland, Cape Perpetua. One sure sign that this is a great place is that it’s nowhere near any large towns – Waldport is maybe ten miles north, the slightly larger town of Newport another ten north of that, and Florence 20 miles to the south. Where I’m taking about is the middle Oregon coast south of the tiny seaside town of Yachats.
I may spend weeks here – I did the last two years as we drove through the area, bumming up and down the shoreline. All the ingredients are in place – beautiful scenery, suitable supplies nearby, and a welcoming local environment that makes boondocking easy. I’m back at one of my favorite spots along the Pacific Coast Highway, and I’m going to stay here awhile.
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