In July I went on a road trip with my parents down Highway 1. In preparing for this trip I did a number of things for research. I Googled ideas and agendas, I used Google Maps to figure out the distances between places, I read blogs and I read articles.
The Google searching was a good start. However, I planned a loose agenda by using the book, Road Trip USA: Pacific Coast Highway by Jamie Jensen, to help us have an idea of where to go, what to do and where to be each day. We decided before we began this adventure that we would not book any hotels; we would just see where we ended up each day and find a hotel there. This made it possible that we could stay as long or as little in each town.
The greatest tool we found for this trip was the Mile by Mile Guide to Hwy 101 for Oregon. I would highly recommend grabbing one of these to help you get the best out of the Pacific Coast Highway; they're free and at every tourist stop you can think of. It has all the information about everything you can see and do along the Oregon coast and mile by mile steps on how to get there. The only bummer is that this is only for Oregon; after that we reverted back to the Road Trip USA book.
The Mile By Mile Guide's website now offers a guide for your cell phone. Check it out:
Oregon Coast
