Landmarks & Oregon Beaches | Central Coast

Stretching for about 100 miles from Lincoln City to Florence and Winchester Bay, Central Oregon Coast Beaches comprise an array of extremely diverse scenery and landscapes. Ranging from basalt outcropping, tree-top cliffs, and colossal sea stacks to flat sand areas, extensive dunes, and broad gravel bars, you can see it all here in Oregon!

Oregon's mid-coast is a place to enjoy breathtaking Pacific beauty, observe wildlife, hike, fish, surf waves, sandboard dunes, collect agates, explore coastal towns, historic lighthouses, and much more.

The Pacific Coast Scenic Byway on Highway 101 follows along the Pacific Ocean through the coastal towns of Lincoln City, Depoe Bay, Newport, Waldport, Yachats, and Florence.

Salem and Eugene, the second-largest cities of Oregon, are just a little over an hour of driving to Central Oregon Coast Beaches. That means warmer summer months, weekends, and holidays bring more people to the beaches and towns. However, even in the busiest time of the year when well-known and popular beaches are crowded, you can find a beautiful seashore that offers seclusion and relaxation. Luckily, Oregon beaches are all-season tourist destinations.

The Oregon Coast is a magical place in the winter. A winter weekend on the coast might involve watching the gray whales migrating to the south and back, exploring tidepools, beachcombing, or just enjoying a dramatic show of huge waves crashing ashore.

Unfortunately, our beautiful Pacific Northwest beaches are stained with trash, especially plastic. We, at Oregon Discovery, as well as other unaffiliated groups of nature lovers made a commitment to do our part in keeping our beaches clean, but we need your help too!

Every time you go out to enjoy nature at your favorite spot, please bring a garbage bag or two and help us pick up garbage. Even picking up a little bit here and there will make a huge difference long term.

Please, help us save our beautiful nature for the generations to come!