Along with the other Oregon advice, visiting the Oregon coast was highly suggested! Portland is an hour and half-ish of a drive to the coast and makes for another fun day trip or more! We drove from our second airbnb south to Lincoln City and then up route 101 to Cannon Beach (made famous from Goonies). Route 101 isn’t all coast and some of it is farm land which was a surprise to us, but the coastal cities we visited were worth it.

When we moved airbnbs outside of Portland, we needed a car and rented through turo. The pricing ended up more affordable than other car rental companies.

Our Favorite Coastal Cities

Lincoln City was our first view of the Pacific Ocean and pictured above.

Manzanita was also a great pit stop. We had wine and drove along the bluff.

We caught Cannon Beach at low tide and we were able to walk out to the haystacks, saw jellyfish, mussels and starfish.

We met a couple who were visiting but grew up on the coast who suggested Newport and Seaside but we ran out of time. We also ran out of time to hike around Seaside and Cannon Beach, apparently, there are great views of the ocean from those hikes.

Read about our Portland vacation, our Oregon wine country excursion and how I packed for the trip.