Waldport

Waldport attracts many retirees and settlers seeking an alternative to the expensive beach resorts nearby. It has a memorable bed-and-breakfast, a charming new golf course, and an amazing old-growth forest. The town itself is a small coastal settlement where folks work and live. Once the base of the Alsea Indians, Waldport later morphed into a gold-rush town and a logging center. In the 1980s it garnered national attention when local residents fought the timber industry and stopped the spraying of dioxin-based defoliants in the Coast Range forests.