Things to Do in
Yachats Oregon
Restaurants
Coffee: Dream Machine Coffee or The Village Bean drive-through or Bread and Roses
Breakfast: Beach Street Café or The Green Salmon or The Drift Inn
Seafood: Luna Sea or Ona Restaurant or The Drift Inn
Pub: Sea Note Restaurant and Lounge or Wildcraft Cider and Pantry
Any meal: Drift Inn…this is the most well-known restaurant in Yachats. Music every evening. Visit the attached Yachats Mercantile…a very unique hardware/gift store/deli.
Best ocean view: The Adobe Restaurant
Wine tasting: The Beach Daisy and Bayside Cellars
Shopping
Yachats has several charming shops. Our favorites are the bookstore (Books and More), the very tiny kitchen shop (Judith’s Kitchen Tools), the venerable gift/card shop (Toad Hall), the Yachats Mercantile and the Lion’s Club Thrift Shop.
Yaquina Nursery is very fun to visit. It is a huge succulent nursery about 10 miles out Yachats River Road, open to wholesalers and to the public. The North Fork Yachats River Covered Bridge is out in the same direction.
There are several nice art galleries in Yachats. There are three excellent ones right next to one another at the north end of town: Touchstone Gallery, Earthworks Gallery and Wave Gallery. Check out Peephole Gallery, too.
Tidepooling and agate huntinG
Strawberry Hill Wayside or Bob Creek Wayside. Both are within Neptune State Park.
Beaches
Don’t miss the views at Yachats State Park and the Yachats Ocean Road State Natural Site. Yachats Ocean Road is a short loop starting just south of the bridge over the Yachats River. We highly recommend that you take that short drive, and walk down to the beach there.
Whale watchinG
Gray whales migrate south along the coast toward Mexico from mid-December through mid-January. They migrate north toward Alaska from late February through May. Best places to see them: Boiler Bay State Scenic Viewpoint, Whale Watching Center in Depoe Bay, Rocky Creek State Scenic Viewpoint, Cape Foulweather, Devil’s Punchbowl State Natural Area, Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area, Yachats State Recreation Area, Cape Perpetua Turnout, Sea Lion Caves, and Heceta Head Lighthouse.
Farmers markeT
Sundays from 9am-2pm from Mother’s Day to mid-October, on 4th St. This is an excellent farmers market.
Annual eventS
You can browse upcoming events at: www.yachatsoregon.org
Arts and Crafts Fair…Held in late March.
La de da Parade and Fireworks…Held on the 4th of July.
Mushroom Festival…Held in late October.
Celtic Festival…Held in mid-November.