Oregon Roads - US 101 - Reedsport & S

Reedsport and south

All photos are northbound unless otherwise stated.


At 630 Fleet St. in Brookings, just inside the state from California, this statue represents the Brookings-Harbor Bears.


This is the 1932 Rogue River Bridge looking west from Jerry Flat Rd. in Gold Beach. It's also known as the Isaac Lee Patterson Bridge, but that's not a later honorific name; it was conferred upon dedication to memorialize the Oregon governor who died during his term in 1929.


Across the bridge and into some fun.


I have a narrow OR 42S shield and then a normal one for you as OR 42 Spur EB begins, but to compensate, the US 101 shield must be narrow. OR 42 Spur was original US 101 before a newer alignment was built closer to the ocean, and thus the remainder of OR 42 from there northeast back to US 101 is also original US 101.


The new alignment hinged on building the 1954 Bullards Bridge over the Coquille River, a longer crossing than on OR 42.


More narrow shields, Virginia Ave. EB and WB in North Bend.


Before I leave North Bend, I cross a railroad and am made nostalgic by neon.


From there I cross the 1936 Coos Bay Bridge, renamed in 1946 to honor Conde McCullough, an ODOT civil engineer who designed many of the 1930s bridges along US 101, including this one.


On the north side of the bridge, I turn west on Trans Pacific Lane and look back southeast at the Coos Bay Bridge across Haynes Inlet.


This little guy is US 101's bridge over Haynes Inlet, with most of that road (and Trans Pacific Ln.) on artificial spits. This actually dates to 2001 but was designed with McCullough's old arch bridges in mind.


Looking west from Trans Pacific Lane (2 photos) and then from US 101 (2 photos) at the southern end of the Oregon Dunes, a little piece of desert in a veritable rainforest.


It's really not something I'd call "magnificent," but at least you can see the ocean. You can also see a small piece of Umpqua River Lighthouse, which will presently be featured on my Non-Roads page.


Across Schofield Creek into Reedsport.


Reedsport ends at the Umpqua River, so I present to you only the southern part of the 1936 Umpqua River Bridge as seen from Port Dock Rd., from west to east. Travel the bridge on the next page north:

Continue north on US 101
Back to US 101 main page


Into California on US 101
Back to Oregon Roads
Back to Roads