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Narrated by The Drifter 105 km · about 105 min · 22 stories

Fog and headlands down the north Oregon coast: Fort Astoria's fur-trade gamble, the shelling of Fort Stevens by a Japanese submarine, the wreck of the Peter Iredale, the treasure legend of Neahkahnie Mountain, and Bayocean — the resort town the ocean simply took back.

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Astoria, Oregon

    The Founding of Fort Astoria

  2. 2
    Warrenton, Oregon

    The Founder of Warrenton

  3. 3
    Warrenton, Oregon

    The Shelling of Fort Stevens

  4. 4
    Warrenton, Oregon

    The Astoria Column's Construction

  5. 5
    Seaside, Oregon

    The Winter at Fort Clatsop

  6. 6
    Seaside, Oregon

    The Wreck of the Peter Iredale

  7. 7
    Seaside, Oregon

    The Rise of Seaside Resorts

  8. 8
    Seaside, Oregon

    Governor Oswald West's Coastal Retreat

  9. 9
    Cannon Beach, Oregon

    Geological Origins of Haystack Rock

  10. 10
    Arch Cape, Oregon

    The Singing Sands of Arcadia

  11. 11
    Arch Cape, Oregon

    The Russian Ukase of 1821

  12. 12
    Arch Cape, Oregon

    The Harry F. Wentz Studio

  13. 13
    Nehalem, Oregon

    The Legend of Neahkahnie Mountain

  14. 14
    Nehalem, Oregon

    The Tillamook People's Ancestral Lands

  15. 15
    Wheeler, Oregon

    The Harbor Seals of Nehalem Bay

  16. 16
    Rockaway Beach, Oregon

    The Neahkahnie Mountain Treasure Film

  17. 17
    Rockaway Beach, Oregon

    Steamboats of Tillamook Bay

  18. 18
    Rockaway Beach, Oregon

    The Disappearing Town of Bayocean

  19. 19
    Garibaldi, Oregon

    The Garibaldi Coast Guard Station

  20. 20
    Bay City, Oregon

    The Real Nellie Owens

  21. 21
    Tillamook, Oregon

    The Tillamook Creamery Legacy

  22. 22
    Tillamook, Oregon

    The Giant Wooden Hangar

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.