San Francisco to Seattle: A Week on the Pacific Coast: the places

The West Coast's tallest climbable lighthouse at 115 feet

Night 1 — New England-style village of water towers and headland trails

Morning beach walk on gravel made of tumbled sea glass

Drive your car through a living 276-foot redwood where Hwy 1 meets 101

31 miles of old highway under the largest old-growth redwood stand on Earth

Victorian dairy village, intact enough to be a state historic landmark

Night 2 — fishing hamlet on a bluff with its own memorial lighthouse

Easy 1.5-mile ridgetop loop through 300-foot old growth

Fern-walled slot canyon from Jurassic Park 2 — free summer permit required

Low-tide morning walk among Bandon's legendary sea stacks

Oregon's most photographed lighthouse, still working since 1894

Collapsed sea cave that swallows the ocean — best near high tide, from a distance

Night 4 — town of 700 with outsized bakeries and tide pools

Resident gray whales feed just offshore June–November; volunteers find you a spout

Climb the giant dune and watch dory boats launch through the surf

Free self-guided cheese factory tour — the ice cream line moves fast

235-foot sea stack with nesting puffins in summer — go before 9am

'Shorty's' — the cliff-walled surf cove Portlanders dawn-patrol

Night 5 — seven quiet blocks of beach town under Neahkahnie Mountain

164 steps to a three-state view over the Columbia's mouth

The 1985 film house — private home, so admire quickly and politely from the street

Beer-battered albacore from a converted gillnet boat — cash only

Goonies opening-scene jail turned film museum — get your fix here, not on the house's lawn

Washington's oldest hotel (1885), home of The Wandering Goose's biscuits and Toke Point oysters