Beachcomber Pub Florence

A restored 1914 railroad depot on the Siuslaw River, Waterfront Depot gives Florence a properly historic building to match its century-long role as gateway to the Oregon Dunes.

Named for the ravines that made the coast south of Cape Arago hell to cross. Now a two-bar alehouse on the Coos Bay estuary where every table faces the water.

Nye Beach was doing the arts-and-Victorian-charm thing decades before tourism discovered Oregon, and Georgie’s sits right above it with Pacific views that match the neighborhood’s actual history.

This is the actual birthplace of Rogue, one of the Pacific Northwest’s most widely distributed beer brands, poured dockside where the Newport fishing fleet still ties up every day.

Newport’s working bayfront smells like the ocean because it is the ocean, and the Sandbar serves a crowd that is as much crabbers and fishermen as tourists, Yaquina Bay lighting up at sunset with zero filter needed.