Revered as the People’s Coast, Oregon’s 350 miles of rugged, fog-shrouded headlands, dark and mossy evergreen forests and wide, meandering swaths of beach and dunes have beckoned the ever-arriving masses like a benign, spiritual opiate for years.
Unlike some other states that border the open sea, the privileged here are prohibited from owning their little patch of beach to the exclusion of others, of blocking public access to the glittering sands of the Oregon Coast.
This diamond necklace belongs to all of us.