Oregon Coast Redwood Run - Self Drive Tour
8 Days / 7 Nights
Seasons -
Spring, Summer, Fall
Temperature -
35° to 90° F /
2° to 32° C
Reservations must be booked and paid in advance
Day 1 : Bend Arrival
Arrive in Bend, the hub for many of the region’s activities, and transfer to your hotel. Overnight.
Day 2 : Bend - Portland
This morning you pick up your bike and you are on your way to Madras, surrounded by the high desert terrain and mountain peaks of the Mount Jefferson Wilderness Area. Continue on Hwy 26 and cross through Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Further on your ride will take you through Mount Hood National Forest and on into Portland, the “City of Roses”. Nature has endowed Portland with many gifts – majestic mountain vistas, a mild climate and a deep-water harbor – and these in turn have created an almost inspired devotion in its citizens. Overnight.
Day 3 : Portland - Seaside
Out of Portland you continue west on Hwy 26 and enjoy a scenic ride with Clatsop State Forest on your right and Tillamook State Forest on your left. Tillamook’s lush grasses, nurtured by 72 – 90 inches of rain a year, sustain the herds that compose Oregon’s dairy industry. Today’s destination is Seaside, Oregon’s oldest seafront resort. Seaside lies at the end of the Lewis and Clark Trail and near the end of the Promenade you can see a replica of a salt cairn built by the Lewis and Clark party in 1806 to extract salt from seawater. Overnight.
Day 4 : Seaside - Coos Bay
Get ready for a ride down one of the nation’s more spectacular shorelines…Pick up Hwy 101 and just a few miles out of Seaside you arrive at Cannon Beach, an artist’s colony and a place you don’t want to miss! South of Cannon Beach Hwy 101 rises 700 feet above the Pacific – nowhere else along the Oregon coast does the roadbed sit so high above an ocean view! Your most scenic ride will take you through many quaint seaside hamlets…Depoe Bay, Newport, Waldport, Yachats, and Florence, which is a truly blessed place. For nearly 50 miles south of Florence, Hwy 101 has an extensive panorama of oceanfront dunes – you are in “Dune Country”, Oregon’s Sahara. Today’s stop will be Coos Bay, once the world’s largest lumber port. Though many of the big mills have closed, you can still watch huge piles of wood chips, the harbor’s number one export. Overnight.
Day 5 : Coos Bay - Crescent City
You continue riding south along the coast. About 23 miles out of Coos Bay you arrive in Bandon. Here, in the Old Town section along the banks of the Coquille River, you find several blocks of galleries, crafts shops, and fine restaurants. For fish and chips along the waterfront, try Bandon Fish Market. Pastoral sheep ranches, cranberry bogs, berry fields, and Christmas tree farms dominate the 25-mile stretch south of Bandon, but as you pull into Port Orford, you’ll notice a huge volcanic plug abutting the crescent-shaped shoreline. Known as Battle Rock, it’s where early settlers fought off a party of hostile Indians. Further south you will get to Gold Beach, named for the nuggets mined from the black sands during the mid-19th century. Between Gold Beach and Brookings, Hwy 101’s windy, hilly roadbed is studded with the Cliffside ocean vistas, giant conifers, and boomerang-shaped offshore rock formations of Samuel Boardman State Park. Ride via Brookings and cross into California, over to Crescent City.
Day 6 : Crescent City - Klammath Falls
At Crescent City you pick up Hwy 199 and turn inland, back into Oregon. Cruise the back roads of the Klammath Mountains, a particularly scenic stretch, up to Grants Pass – a stopping place on the California stage route and now a central point in the Rouge River region. Pick up Hwy 5 east for a few miles and then continue on Hwy 140 over to Klammath Falls. Upper Klammath Lake, bordered for 20 miles by US 97, is the largest body of fresh water in the state. A local phenomenon in the city of Klammath Falls is the underground supply of geothermally heated water. Overnight.
Day 7 : Klammath Falls - Bend
Out of Klammath Falls you head further north toward Crater Lake, noted for its brilliant blue water. The lake is 6 miles long, 4.5 miles wide and 1,932 feet deep. Its 26-mile shoreline is encircled by lava cliffs that rise 500 to 2,000 feet, and for much of the year snow covers the mountains and peaks that encircle the lake. Ride over to catch Hwy 97, which will take you back into Bend. Upon arrival it be time to return your bike and transfer back to your hotel. Overnight.
Day 8 : Bend Departure
Today your most scenic ride through beautiful Oregon will come to an end with your departure flight back home.