ROAD TRIP:
GOLD BEACH, OR to NEWPORT, OR
May 1, 2022
The drive from Gold Beach to Newport is 180 miles. I stopped at the tiny port town of Port Orford (population 1,100), and drove onto the high dock to watch boating- and fishing-related activities and have some fish-n-chips at Griff's on the Dock. Unfortunately, Griff's was closed -- looks permanent. Port Orford is usually very windy. During storms, waves twenty-five feet high have crashed across the dock, moving and destroying equipment. The first time I stayed in Port Orford, the wind literally shook my car and set off the car alarm. This visit was different. There was no wind --a very eerie calm.
Port Orford claims to be the oldest town on the Oregon Coast, the westernmost settlement in the state of Oregon, and the westernmost incorporated place in the 48 contiguous states.
Port Orford's "high dock," home to a commercial fishing fleet, is one of only a few docks in the world where fishing and pleasure boats are lowered by crane into the ocean and hoisted back up to trailers (dollys) on the dock when they return to port. The harbor area is too shallow for safe mooring, so when not on the ocean, the boats are parked in rows on the dock, cradled in custom-made trailers that are easily pulled around by pickup trucks. Port Orford has one of only two "dolly docks" in the United States -- the other dolly dock is in Los Angeles. Worldwide there are only six such docks.
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PHOTOS
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Location: North of Gold Beach along Highway 101.
Location: North of Gold Beach along Highway 101.
View From Dock.
Location: on the dock at Port Orford.
Location: Dock at Port Orford.
Colorful House
Location: Along Highway 101 in Port Orford.
Coquille River Lighthouse and Bullards Beach
Location: Just north of Bandon. The Coquille River Lighthouse began operation in 1896 and is now part of Bullards Beach State Park. This lighthouse, the last government lighthouse built in Oregon, was unique among West Coast lighthouses in its architecture -- an elongated octagonal shape with arched window heads. The U.S. Coast Guard took over the lighthouse in 1939 and determined it was no longer necessary. An automated beacon was placed on the end of the South Jetty, the keeper's dwelling was removed, and the lighthouse was abandoned. The lighthouse sat abandoned for twenty-four years until the Oregon Parks Division purchased it.
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