Between Depoe Bay and Newport, the roadside scenery along US-101 and the parallel “old road,” now signed as the Otter Crest Loop, is dominated by miles of broad beaches and sandstone bluffs, including the 453-foot headland of Cape Foulweather, named by Capt. James Cook and offering a 360-degree coastal panorama. (The Otter Crest Loop has frequently been closed by slides and reconstruction efforts, but you can reach it from many access roads.)
Farther south, midway between Depoe Bay and Newport, the aptly named Devil’s Punchbowl gives a ringside seat on a frothy confrontation between rock and tide. In the parking area you’ll find a small lunch café (a branch of Newport’s Mo’s) graced by a chair where “The Boss” (singer Bruce Springsteen) sat on June 11, 1987.
