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1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition is held in northwest Portland. indd 40 6/20/14 11:07 AM Pacific eastward and hangs it up on the coastal mountain ranges. The summer fogs, more common along the South Coast, don’t dissipate until late afternoon, and then come back the next day. But you may be lucky, and certainly if you visit in the summer it will be warmer—but not warm enough to go without a fleece or sweatshirt. That’s because of the winds blowing in off the Pacific. My advice, if you can choose your date for visiting the Oregon coast, would be to come in early-to mid-September.
That’s what the Oregon coast is called. Why? Because not an inch of it is privately owned. By which I mean the entire shoreline—with its clean, beautiful, white-sand beaches, towering headlands, dramatic offshore monoliths, secretive little coves, crashing waves, seals and seabirds. It’s all there for you to enjoy. The towns and communities on the coast are small and can no longer rely on commercial fishing and logging to keep them afloat. So tourism plays a major role in the coast economy. There’s been an uptick in the number of upscale places to stay and the number of good restaurants to eat.
By 1785, the fur trade between the Northwest and China was well underway, with the British asserting a claim to the Pacific Northwest. The Spanish and English teetered on the brink of war, but a settlement was reached in 1792 with Captain George Vancouver serving as English envoy. Vancouver (Vancouver, Washington; Vancouver, British Columbia; and Vancouver Island were all named for him) spent time exploring and mapping much of the Northwest. Though he passed off the Columbia River as unimportant, he sailed up the Strait of Juan de Fuca and discovered a large inland sea that he named Puget Sound, after one of his lieutenants.