The research for this article came about entirely by accident. I didn’t set out trying to find the winner for this category, but as I drive along the coast, sometimes things just catch my attention. I am offering no proof that I’m correct. A degree of personal opinion is definitely involved.
In my view, the most remote homesites on the Oregon Coast are found along Seven Devils Road between Bandon and Charleston. I should make it clear that I’m not talking about the “Oregon Coast” in the broad sense of everything west of the Coast Range. There are definitely more remote places if that’s your definition. In fact, there’s a community that’s so remote, they named themselves Remote. Since it’s on Highway 42, I don’t see how it can be all that remote, but there you have it.
No, I’m talking about the immediate coast, close enough to the Pacific that you can hear the surf. There isn’t a lot left that isn’t at least a little crowded. Or so I thought until I picked the wrong road coming back from Bandon.
It wasn’t my fault. A guy can only keep so many names in his head and I knew the road from Charleston to Hwy 101 was Seven Devils Road, so when I saw the sign as I headed north from Bandon, I figured this was the road from Hwy 101 to Charleston. In fact, a few miles east of Charleston, the road named Seven Devils morphs into Beaver Hill–Seven Devils Road, which is its name when it reaches Hwy 101 several miles north of where I was. That’s what I was really looking for. An easy mistake to make.
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