Brookings Oregon paradise (Medford, Gold Beach: hotel, subdivisions, living in)

[brookingsbest4]

Brooking Oregon is paradise to me.

[Steve Pickering]

It is for many, and well it should be. Before my wife retired we went to Brookings three or four times a month.

[Hemlock140]

Yes, it would be for many people. We stay there at a hotel on the water whenever we are driving by on the way back from roadtrip that takes us into northern CA.

[kadylady]

You're lucky to be living in your paradise!! Life as it should be.

[Kitty4]

Saw a travel show about Brookings, and at the time of filming it was 70 degrees in October; the hostess of the show was in a tank top. I wanted to know if Brookings has a long summer or a delayed summer, as it is in a weather "banana valley" or something like that; I understand that it is warmer there than in Crescent City or in Gold Beach? I wanted to ask also about the lumber mills that I read about on another post; the poster said that there was noise and pollution from 2 lumber mills (one in town and one to the north of town). I also wanted to know if anyone has used the flight to Medford option for medical care for emergencies; how this has worked in a real case scenario. Thanks for any information! It did indeed look like paradise on the travel show, as did Gold Beach (although that looked alot colder than Brookings).

[Steve Pickering]

Originally Posted by Kitty4

Saw a travel show about Brookings, and at the time of filming it was 70 degrees in October; the hostess of the show was in a tank top. I wanted to know if Brookings has a long summer or a delayed summer, as it is in a weather "banana valley" or something like that; I understand that it is warmer there than in Crescent City or in Gold Beach? I wanted to ask also about the lumber mills that I read about on another post; the poster said that there was noise and pollution from 2 lumber mills (one in town and one to the north of town). I also wanted to know if anyone has used the flight to Medford option for medical care for emergencies; how this has worked in a real case scenario. Thanks for any information! It did indeed look like paradise on the travel show, as did Gold Beach (although that looked alot colder than Brookings).

Brookings is known as the Banana Belt of Oregon, But ......... It is still the Oregon Coast.

[Hawk J]

The highest temp I have heard about in Brookings is 103, one day. They have warm air currents at times. They call it the "Brookings Effect" or "Chetco Effect"......They get a lot of rain too.

Brookings effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q...+Chetco+Effect

[Terryj]

Brookings can get warm and stay warm for a few days, like Hawk J posted, it's called the Chetco Effect, that is when the winds are blowing in from the east, you get the warm air mass from the valley moving into the Brookings area. Don't expect the weather to be like this all the time, after all you are still along the Oregon coast.

As for the lumber mills, Brookings, like most of the towns along the coast were fishing and timber towns and only a few of them are still doing this, Brookings is one of them. These mills have been there long before and developers decided to build subdivisions and unfortunately they built them right next to the lumber mills. I read a lot about people complaining about these mills, the mill at Gray Flat just north of town. That is a source of irritation that people are going to have to live with. It has been in the last 20 years that Brooking has become a retirement town, these mills have been there for 40-50 years.

All in all Brookings is a nice town, we always enjoy going for for the weekend when the temps in the valley are in the triple digits.

[SeaHorseGirl]

Just curious, would you consider Brookings to be more liberal or conservative?

[Steve Pickering]

Conservative even with it's California proximity.