BROOKINGS OREGON
Oregon’s Banana Belt and WWII Bomb Site
by Bob Difley

If one of your joys in life is beach combing on windswept, driftwood strewn, mostly deserted sandy beaches, the Oregon Coast is for you. By state decree, all Oregon’s beaches, 363 miles of shoreline, are open to the public from the low tide line to the
vegetation line, without hindrance or interruption.

But it’s not just the beaches that attract visitors to Oregon’s south coast. The mild year-round temperatures have not escaped notice by RVers and retirees, who in recent years have flocked to Brookings (pop: about 14,000) for both retirement homes and as regular visitors, bestowing on Brookings the title of the “Banana Belt of the Oregon Coast.” This mild climate has made it possible for the area’s flower growers to provide 90% of the nation’s Easter lilies. The fields of flowers also give Brookings its colorful patchwork quilt look.

Located just six miles above the California border, the Brookings-Harbor area straddles the Chetco River where it empties into the Pacific Ocean. The river is famous for its winter steelhead and fall Chinook salmon runs...

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