Experience the best of Lincoln City

Lincoln City is made up of five small communities that merged in 1965 along Highway 101, and the beach runs for roughly twelve kilometres from end to end. Dunes, driftwood and tide pools shape the shore, with Siletz Bay to the south and Devils Lake inland. Glassblowers' studios and galleries line the highway.

Each year artists hide handblown glass floats along the beach for finders to keep, a local tradition. Siletz Bay National Wildlife Refuge protects marsh and tideland, Cascade Head, a headland of grassland and forest, rises to the north, and Depoe Bay, a tiny harbour good for watching whales, lies to the south. Devils Punchbowl, a sea-carved cavern, is farther along the coast.

Dungeness crab, oysters, fish and chips and clam chowder fill the menus, and saltwater taffy is sold in the shops. Grey whales pass in winter and spring, storms roll in off the Pacific in winter, and summer mornings are often foggy.