Oregon Coast 5-Day/Night 
Landscape & Astro Adventure
Oregon Coast
5-Night Landscape
& Astro Adventure
WHEN: OCTOBER 21st through 25th, 2025 
WHERE: Along the Oregon Coast & North California

FITNESS LEVEL: Ability to walk on a steep dirt trail.
In Bandon and Cannon Beach we walk down to the beach is pretty much all we have to "hike" while at Secret Beach we have a steep downhill dirt trail. If you can avoid tripping on tree roots, willing to walk patiently at slippery points these trails will offer you ZERO challenge! The biggest "huff and puff" trail will be the pathway up the sand dune and sandstone of Cape Kiwanda.
MILKY WAY & LANDSCAPE ADVENTURE WITH PHOTOG ADVENTURES
$
1,000
INCLUDES:
Snacks & Drinks while on-site doing Photography
Personal instruction at the camera, critique sessions
Post-processing session over zoom

DOES NOT INCLUDE:
Transportation In Oregon
Hotel Accommodation
Travel insurance and personal equipment
Alcohol and soft drinks, laundry
    Reserve your spot today for only $1000. There's no deposit for this discounted adventure.
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Listen to the Podcast above to hear stories about Bandon and Thor's Well.
Five Days/Nights of Landscape & Astro Photography
EXACT TRIP ITINERARY
NOTE: For once, THIS IS EXACTLY the Itinerary planned! Haha Because this is an intentional Landscape Photography adventure too, these are our plans and we will stick to them come rain or shine! If shine, we get Astro as well! If rain, we enjoy dynamic and interesting Landscapes along the Oregon Coast. Can't lose!
Devil's Garden
Monday 21st | Day 1: Brookings
  • ​Day 1: Everyone makes their way to Oregon and Brookings.
  • ​4:30pm-5:30pm Group Dinner.
  • ​6pm Sunset Photography over Secret Beach from an above viewpoint which is a short hike & then we return to the cars. Drive a bit further up the road & park at the trailhead straight down to Secret Beach where we will do Milky Way from the lower vantage point down on the Beach around 8pm until about 9pm when the Milky Way core sets over the horizon.
  • ​6:25pm Sunset
    7:59pm Milky Way starts
  • ​Sleeping in Brookings, Oregon
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Tuesday 22nd | Day 2:  Bandon
  • Day 2: Sleep in as late as you want. Then do breakfast as a group before heading to Bandon.
  • ​BONUS: If you would like, join me in California at the Redwoods in Stout Grove Trail for quasi-early morning Redwoods & Mushrooms macro before breakfast.
  • ​12pm Breakfast/Lunch at an option that is open & serving breakfast hopefully.
  • ​1pm - 5pm Free time for you to drive & enjoy the sights! Then 5pm group dinner.
  • ​6pm Sunset at the Howling Dog seastack on Bandon Beach then Milky Way over around the corner at Face Rock Viewpoint near the Guardians of the Wizard seastacks. If you have a chair, this is a place you can use it.
  • ​6:23pm Sunset
    7:58pm Milky Way starts
  • ​​Sleeping in Bandon, Oregon
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Wednesday 23rd | Night 3: Yachats
  • Day 3: Sleep in as late as you can then head out to Yachats, Oregon. No Group Breakfast unless we have a sky for sunrise.
  • ​4pm Group Dinner/Lunch in Yachats at Luna Sea for some great Fish & Chips!
  • ​5:30pm Group up at parking above Thor's well. Get water shoes/socks on and move down to the Well after High Tide. Capture sunset and then stars if we don't move to Heceta.
  • ​6:18pm Sunset
  • ​Should we feel up to it and sky is clear, we may go to Heceta Head for stars but while Milky Way core is visible off coast from behind Heceta Head it is usually washed out by the lighthouse light. (That is IF it is lit up. Recent visits it has been turned off.)
    7:55pm Milky Way starts
  • ​​Sleeping in Yachats, Oregon 
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Thursday 24th | Day 4: Pacific City
Friday 25th | Day 5: Cannon Beach
  • Day 4: Sleep in as late as you can then head out to Pacific City. No Group Breakfast unless we have a sky for sunrise.
  • ​12pm-4:30pm Group up in Parking lot at Pelican Brewing where we will eat Dinner after Milky Way.
  • ​4:30pm - 6pm Prepare to hike up the hill and position ourselves up at the fence line looking over Chief Kiawanda seastack for Sunset and Milky Way. If you have a chair, this is a place you will definitely want to use it.
  • ​6:14pm Sunset
    7:53pm Milky Way starts
  • ​8:30pm-9pm Finish up with Milky Way and book it down the hill to make dinner in time before Pelican Brewing closes at 10pm.
  • ​​Sleeping in Pacific City, Oregon 
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  • Day 5: Sleep in as late as you can then head out to Cannon Beach. No Group Breakfast & no sunrise.
  • ​12pm-4pm Personal time to get yourself to Cannon Beach.
  • ​4pm Group Dinner at Pelican Brewing.
  • ​5pm-5:30pm Head down the street to the close parking for Haystack Rock. Bring all your gear because we will be down on the beach for Sunset and then staying around until Milky Way begins about 8pm. If you have a chair, this is a place you will use it.
  • ​6:12pm Sunset
    7:52pm Milky Way starts
    7:49pm Sunrise at Cannon Beach on Saturday Morning
  • ​​Sleeping in Cannon Beach or Seaside, Oregon 
Devil's Garden
Need Help? Contact me at:
aaron@photogadventures.com
Aaron King
Frequently Asked Questions
What do you bring?
Milky Way Photography is awesome but it can be VERY COLD depending on the location, so come ready for it!

This is what we recommend to take with you:
  • Camera with manual mode 
  • ​Lenses you need are anything from 8mm-50mm and with the largest aperture possible! f1.2 to f3.5 are great options! Bring your 50mm, and anything else you would like. Telephoto lens gigapanos can be great! Just don't forget your widest and largest aperture lenses at home!
  • ​Sturdy Tripod (REQUIRED!) make sure it is STURDY enough
  • ​L-Bracket (Optional) - Best for Panorama and switching orientation 
  • ​Focusing Aid (Carson Lumiloupe: https://amzn.to/2lDwFjz)
  • ​Batteries – Fully charged and at least 2 per night!
  • ​Memory Cards – minimum 2 cards of 32GB each
  • ​Head lamp (red lamps are not required anymore)
  • ​Really Warm outdoor clothing for staying warm during the coldest hours of night and standing in the wind!
  • ​Water Socks or Shoes for Bandon and Cannon Beach you will appreciate waterproof shoes/socks. At Thor's Well you NEED it!
  • ​Water Proof jacket & Pants
  • ​Laptop (OPTIONAL) for post-processing (Lightroom & Photoshop)
Flying, Driving & Hotels?
Flying in?
If you plan to fly in, JustFly.com and SkyScanner.com are great sites for Flight Deals. Flying in to Portland is easiest. You MAY find an option for Eugene, Oregon. If you do that location is closer. But go with Portland is definitely easiest to find deals for.
Driving?
Everyone takes care of getting themselves to and from this entire workshop. Renting a car at the airport or driving in from out of state is really easy. Definitely long drives through Oregon's wooded and mountainous regions to get all along the Coastline. Once you leave the I-5 you are usually in areas without cell signal and it is a winding road all the way to the coast. But once on the coast, driving the 101 is really easy, scenic and again one of my favorite drives in the world!
Hotels?
Our main locations we stay in are Brookings, Bandon, Yachats, Pacific City and Cannon Beach. In Cannon Beach, the city of Seaside is an option some have taken in the past. It is merely an extra 20-minute drive or so depending on traffic. There are many options for Hotels, Camping and AirBNBs. GO AHEAD AND RESERVE YOUR ACCOMMODATIONS to your comfort level in price and quality. WE WILL NOT CHANGE THE ITINERARY. So even if it is raining hard one day, we will make the most out of it with Landscape Photography and we will not drive anywhere else.
TRIP DETAILS
This Milky Way Adventure actually includes a LOT of Landscape Photography as well! We have sunsets from the Rim up at Crater Lake! Then amazing and beautiful locations out on the Oregon Coast in Bandon and Secret Beach! I just LOVE these places! If we get too many clouds, then Landscape is our PLAN A and we go out for sunrise too! But if the skies are clear as they can be! We will have amazing nights of Milky Way Photography at these three locations!

Secret Beach is a little bit of a drive from Crater Lake, but I don't hesitate at all to say it is worth it! The Oregon Coast is a beautiful location for both Landscape and Milky Way Photography. Secret Beach is amazing especially with the moon that we have this year! We can use the Moon to light up the sea-stacks and trees! This could be the chance for my best ever image from Secret Beach! We are going to love having our foreground landscape lit up by the moon!

Bandon is a location I have gone to twice a year since 2017! I love lining up the Milky Way with the shape of the Wizard's Hat and the Guardians of the Wizard! These sea-stacks are much more different than the sea-stacks at Secret Beach and we get a completely different feel being out literally IN THE WATER with the sea-stacks and lining up the Milky Way over them. I absolutely love this place. It almost is redundant for me to say that I love the place, but I wouldn't do workshops here if I didn't love going to these places! I can't wait for you to fall in love with them too!

Thor's Well & Cape Kiwanda This day will be a busy day of driving because we will be making TWO STOPS. We will see Thor's Well and spend an hour or two capturing there in the mid-day harsh light. Unfortunately, in order to get the Milky Way we have to come during a bad time for Thor's Well Tides that puts us capturing around High Tide at Noon. While it won't be the best skies, it will still be a fun adventure capturing the splash of water that comes out of Thor's Well and a chance to familiarize you all with the location so you can come back on your own in the future. Lunch is going to be at Luna Sea Fish House where the best Fish and Chips of the trip are found! But we will be quickly back on the road to make it to Pacific City - which is just under 2 hours drive - so we can do sunset and Milky Way from Cape Kiwanda. This is a long day of driving. No other way to put it.

Cannon Beach Now we get to take it easy. After a long Wednesday we can sleep in as long as your hotel will allow you and then everyone can take a leisurely travel up the coast to Cannon Beach. We will meet first thing for Sunset so you have until 4:30pm before you need to be on the Beach by Haystack Rock ready for Sunset AND Milky Way. Emphasize that you WILL NEED your Milky Way gear too when you walk down to the beach at Haystack Rock. We will stay in the same area for Milky Way as well. Cannon Beach is one of the FEW PLACES on the coast where the immediate surrounding hills are not too high to block some good sunrise color. It can be AMAZING THERE too! So we WILL BE DOING A SUNRISE HERE!

If you have any questions, please get in touch with me by email at aaron@PhotogAdventures.com.
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5-Night Oregon Coast Workshop
You are buying a FIVE-DAY & NIGHT Photog Adventures Oregon Coast Landscape & Astro Adventure that includes:
  • Snacks & Drinks while on-site doing Photography
  • Personal instruction at the camera, critique sessions and post processing sessions during the day while we wait for night to do Milky Way Photography
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