Chinook Winds Casino Beachside Bar

Phil’s Nest Seafood Market sits right next door for the Dungeness crab boil, and the Siletz Bay sunset through the tidal estuary makes this Pelican outpost one of the most beautiful bay views on the whole Oregon coast.

Depoe Bay claims the world’s smallest natural harbor, and Gracie’s Sea Hag has watched fishing boats thread through that basalt slot since 1963. Portland Monthly calls it essential.

Three founders built the only beachfront brewpub in the Pacific Northwest in 1996 with more passion than practical know-how, and the Kiwanda Cream Ale born on that patio, with Haystack Rock rising from the surf and dory boats launching below, has been proving the gamble right ever since.

The Barge Inn skips every bit of Newport Bayfront’s polish for straight-up dive bar honesty, cheap beer and pool tables that have anchored the working port neighborhood for decades.

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.