What We’re Into: Visiting new places in Oregon
Published 5:00 am Monday, October 12, 2026
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In the final days of August, with the end of summer on the horizon, my boyfriend and I loaded up the car bright and early to hit the road.
We didn’t know it yet, but we would soon be treated to an early taste of fall. Our destination, the coast, greeted us with rainy skies, a cool breeze and mild temperatures.
It was a welcome reprieve from the smoke and heat we experienced in Northeastern Oregon this summer.
While I’ve lived in Oregon for a few years now, I’ve traveled and seen very little of it. This is something I want to remedy, and we set out this summer to do just that.
We stayed in a tiny house in Waldport — not even a five-minute walk from the beach, which was the first place we went to stretch our legs after a rather long drive. Rising out of the fog was a large piece of what we thought was driftwood.
It towered over the sand and I needed to see it closer. We quickly found out, thanks to a helpfully placed laminated card, that it was not actually driftwood. Rather, it was The Big Stump — a sole redwood that grew there many, many years ago.
It stands two hundred miles ...