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The Oregon Coast is incredibly rugged--and it's probably for the best that there's not more people living there with the risk of tsunamis. Though at the same time, it's not like it's remote from most of the population of Oregon and there's a highway that goes right down the entire coast. A lot of people go there for the weekends and vacations--it's an short daytrip in like an hour or two from most of the population in Western Oregon. Just like in California in between Santa Barbara and Monterey and north of the San Francisco Bay Area, there's not a lot of bigger towns right on the coast, but still there's a lot of places that get tourists from the inland valleys. Oregon Coast feels like the Northern California coast basically, though I'd say the places on the Oregon Coast in the NW corner closer to the Willamette Valley feel even busier than much of the Northern California coast.
Also the other major cities of the Pacific Northwest are coastal like Baltimore is coastal, they're on a large saltwater sound/bay but not on the actual coastline of the Pacific. There's not many large towns let alone any cities on the direct coastline north of San Francisco, but there's still a coastal feel to the region.
I'd say Louisiana, where the actual coast is hard to access in most places and it's hard to get to an actual beach after driving through miles of bayous and canals is a more interesting case of a coastal state where you don't really experience the coast as much. Does New Orleans feel coastal? It's always just felt like a river city to me, despite being close to actual Gulf of Mexico.
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This thread is dumb!!! Oregon doesn't feel coastal? Yeah, ok!
Oregon borders the Pacific. It surely because of climate like Southern California shores. But more like Nova Scotia or New England.
Apparently you feel unless it lined with more continuous Beaches? It is not coastal?
The definition of a Coast or Coastline still includes even Large Lakes... like the Great Lakes and not merely beach lined. Many are fishing communities still Coastal... like in Oregon and New England. Just not a beach lifestyle kind.
Of course you do not have to go far inland in Oregon and in the Mountains. So it looses it quickly and coastal flavor.
Oregon borders the Pacific. It surely because of climate like Southern California shores. But more like Nova Scotia or New England.
Apparently you feel unless it lined with more continuous Beaches? It is not coastal?
The definition of a Coast or Coastline still includes even Large Lakes... like the Great Lakes and not merely beach lined. Many are fishing communities still Coastal... like in Oregon and New England. Just not a beach lifestyle kind.
Of course you do not have to go far inland in Oregon and in the Mountains. So it looses it quickly and coastal flavor.
Did you read my post? I agree with you, that's why I think it's ridiculous that someone thinks Oregon isn't coastal.
Yep. I'm still trying to figure out how Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Oregon don't feel coastal to the OP.
I get what the OP is saying. When I or most people think of a state like Mississippi or Alabama the first thing that comes to mind is not the beach or people enjoying themselves along the coast. When I think of Alabama I think of Birmingham, rolling hills, Appalachian mountains in the north, and a lot farm land. Sates like California and Florida rely heavily on their coastal area to sell tourism. When people think of California, outside of Hollywood of course, they think of people tanning on the beaches, surfing, volleyball, etc. BTW, I don't think it's a bad thing that states like Alabama and Mississippi don't immediately conjure up relaxing on the beach, it's usually far less crowded when I go to places like Gulf Shores in Alabama. The beaches tend to be less crowded and in nicer condition also.
This thread is dumb!!! Oregon doesn't feel coastal? Yeah, ok!
There is very little of Oregon's population, and therefore easily explored urban areas on its desolate, rugged coast, so for most people that live in or visit Oregon, it doesn't really stand out as a coastal, beachy sort of place. When up you are on Oregon's coast you are usually passing through or getting away from civilization.
I would say many coastal states have large populations within them that do not feel connected to the coast at all, even Baywatch beachy California. I grew up in the mountains north of Yosemite and we would very rarely go to the coast. When we would make the several hours trek there every other year or so it would be typically to cold, small town Santa Cruz or Parajo Dunes in Monterey. When I would spend summers on the family farm in Nebraska everyone was convinced we went surfing every day and in reality my beach time would only be a few hours greater than their's, and certainly not enough to know anything about surfing. We all drove pickup trucks with gun racks and spent our days hunting and fishing just like most of them.
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I think of Oregon as a "state that has a coast", more than a "coastal state" in its nature if that makes any sense.
It does. I think what it means is that the PNW coastline offers a rather different experience than coastal areas to the south and east. You're generally not going to go there for the typical beach vacation. Hiking and camping would be more the norm.
It does. I think what it means is that the PNW coastline offers a rather different experience than coastal areas to the south and east. You're generally not going to go there for the typical beach vacation. Hiking and camping would be more the norm.
Not only that, but the coast is relatively unpopulated and not visited nearly as often as you'd think. Even though the coast is only about 70 to 90 minutes from the valley, in practice a day trip there takes all day and requires a car. Oregon isn't a coastal state in the same way California, Hawaii, Maine, Florida, etc are in the sense that the majority of the people in the state have an intimate connection to the sea by virtue of living near it.
Places like Corvallis and Portland feel every bit as "inland" as Ohio and Kansas when you're there.
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