Today’s eight post offices brings my total to 356 of the state’s “total” of 388, or I’m now 92% finished. In the two weeks of March I have made three separate trips: a one-night outing, a day trip, and this 4-day event, capturing 44 post offices. All the rest are in the far northeast of the state. Those will have to wait until April; I need a break.
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- Allegany – The post office was nowhere near where Google said it would be, and I couldn’t research where it might be because I was too deep into the forest away from US-101 with zero service. Turned out it is a couple miles further down the road. (3/15/26)
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- Langlois – An unincorporated community along US-101 that was once famous for its blue cheese until the cheese factory burned down in the 1950s. (3/15/26)
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- Port Orford – Prototypical small Oregon coast town named for George Walpole, Earl of Orford. He became extravagant and increasingly eccentric and eventually died insane. (3/15/26)
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- Ophir – The post office is not actually in Ophir but a few miles down the road in another census-designated area called Nesika Beach. (3/15/26)
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- Wedderburn – It is to the north of, and across the mouth of, the Rogue River from Gold Beach, on U.S. Route 101. (3/15/26)
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- Gold Beach – Originally named Ellensburg in the 1850s but later took the name Gold Beach after a beach near the mouth of the Rogue River where hundreds of placer mines extracted gold. (3/15/26)
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- Agness – You really have to want to go here; it is 35 miles from the coast along the Rogue River on a windy, narrow road. But many people do for the fishing at the confluence of the Illinois & Rogue Rivers. (3/15/26)
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- Brookings – This is the last town along the Oregon Coast on US-101 before you hit California. (3/15/26)
It wasn’t all business; I stopped at two lighthouses, Coquille River and Cape Blanco, and walked along the shore at low tide in a couple of places. I also received a compliment, I think, on the back window of the GTI.
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- Coquille River Lighthouse
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- Cape Blanco Lighthouse
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- Pistol River North Beach
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- Dope
