McMinnville to Newport (Sunset Beach) - 65 miles
Left McMinnville and headed to the coast. On the way I detoured slightly off 18 to go through Sheridan and Willamina. There was a nice bakery in Willamina that had decent coffee so I got my caffeine fix there. Sheridan was a depressed looking area though the mill was going. My first planned destination was Devils Lake which is supposed to have a hiker/biker camping site but though I looked at two different places it was not apparent to me. It was too early in the day to stop anyways but thought it would be worth checking out in case it was so awesome I would be compelled to stop. So, on down the coast I rolled. Devils Lake First picture of the Oregon Coast One of many alternate bike routes off the main 101 Sometimes you saw these signs for alternate routes and sometimes not There is a bike shop listed on warmshowers.org that will let cycle tourists shower there and is supposed to have lots of stuff for the cycle tourist. They were very friendly and gave me gr...