Oregon Route 180

During my recent (August 2007) trip down the Oregon Coast, I gave this road a try.

At this time, I cannot recommend this road for non-dualsport motorcycles. The road surface is extremely rough and consists primarily of patches, some of which are weathered concrete in the midst of this otherwise asphalt/chip-seal roadway. This roadway has many tight and blind curves with driveways that drop directly down into the road with obscuring foliage, making high speeds on this road very imprudent. Also, one must be careful when riding this road, as it has no shoulder to speak off before dropping from pavement directly into fairly deep and/or rocky drainage ditches.

Once Oregon DOT fixes the road surface and perhaps clears some of the tall foliage in the drainage ditches, this road will once again be worth investigation.

  • Counties: Benton(OR), Lincoln(OR)
  • Length: 19
  • Towns: Blodgett, Devitt, Eddyville, Marval, Nashville, Nortons, Summit

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Adventure, Twisties, Western Oregon | June 27th, 2007
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  1. Will Says:
    August 22nd, 2011 at 8:24 PM

    Just rode this weekend on my large harley cruiser. They must have repaired the road since your review and all three of us found it quite enjoyable. Some rough spots remain, but by in large, its a good road now. One area of concern for less experienced riders is when tranversing the RR tracks (we counted 8 in all). They don’t seemed to have made a good transition between the road service and the tracks…..be careful!

    I’ll by riding this road again in Sept with a larger group and would recommend it to anyone at this point.

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