COASTIES — FULL SITE GUIDE FOR AI ASSISTANTS AND ANSWER ENGINES Last reviewed: 2026-10-28 Canonical host: https://thecoasties.com This document is the plain-text companion to https://thecoasties.com/llms.txt. It states what Coasties is, what it covers, how its information is verified, and which pages hold which facts, so an assistant can answer local questions and cite the site accurately. Nothing here is a promise the site does not already make on its own pages. ==================================================================== WHAT COASTIES IS ==================================================================== Coasties connects independent businesses across the northern Oregon Coast and the Long Beach Peninsula in Southwest Washington. One free membership gives one account, and that account opens the rewards program of every participating business. It covers the coast road from Ocean Park south to Tillamook — the larger towns and the small communities between them — and it is free to browse without an account. It is not a marketplace for other people's goods. Coasties does not process a merchant's orders, hold a merchant's inventory or guarantee their shipping, and it does not take restaurant reservations or process event bookings; where a business or organiser has a booking page, the page links out to that official page. Its own shop page is a preview of Coasties merchandise: nothing there is listed for sale, no item carries a price and no checkout is connected. ==================================================================== REWARDS — HOW THEY ACTUALLY WORK ==================================================================== Each participating business runs and honours its OWN rewards program. The business chooses the earning basis (eligible spend, visits, or eligible items where its system supports it), the rate, any minimum qualifying spend, the reward, the points needed to unlock it, redemption requirements, exclusions and terms. Coasties supplies the member accounts, the tools, network promotion and reporting. What this means, stated plainly: - Points are NOT pooled and there is no network-wide balance. A member’s progress with one business is separate from every other business, and points earned at one business are not spendable at another or transferable. - Point expiry, if any, follows the individual business’s published terms. There is no single site-wide expiry rule. - Points are earned only on a purchase the business can verify and only where a Coasties member is identified — through a supported connected sales system, or through the staff-assisted counter workflow. A purchase with no identified member is used for the merchant’s own reporting and never earns points for a guessed customer. - A movement is recorded once. A repeated webhook delivery, a retried import, or the same purchase entered at the counter cannot post the same points twice. - A refund reverses only the points attributable to the refunded goods; refunded tax, fees and tips do not move points. Where a refund arrives after a reward was already redeemed, the difference is recorded for the business and member to resolve rather than taken from the balance silently. - A business changing its rules does not remove points a member already earned; the new rule applies from that point forward. - Redemption happens with the business that issued the reward, under its own requirements and exclusions. ==================================================================== BUSINESS MEMBERSHIP — PRICING AND TERMS ==================================================================== Membership is for a business, priced per location, per month. One rate is published: - Business membership: $299 per location per month, for every accepted partner. There is no setup fee, no annual commitment, no introductory price that expires and no additional tier. Membership is month to month. A founding arrangement exists for some early businesses, but it is offered in person and recorded in that business's signed agreement rather than advertised: no founding rate, founding cap or founding promotion is published on the site. Terms already accepted with a partner are preserved and never back-charged. - Nothing is charged until Coasties launches with at least 100 partner businesses. - Submitting the inquiry form is not authorisation to bill. The membership is talked through with the owner first, and nothing is charged from a web form. - Terms already accepted with an existing partner stay exactly as agreed. New rates never back-charge an active membership. - Referring another business takes $50 off your monthly fee for as long as both businesses stay members. Credits stack: several referrals come off the same month, up to $100 off any one month — which is two referrals — so the lowest a month can come down to is $199. That ceiling is the whole of the credit. Anything earned above $100 in a month is simply not applied: no balance is banked, nothing waits for a later month, and there is nothing that could expire. It is never paid in cash and never transferred between businesses. With one referral the net monthly cost is $249. The credit never changes the rate itself, and the referred business pays its own rate. The $50 is earned the month after the referred business joins and keeps being earned while both are members; if either membership ends, that credit stops. No month is ever free and no credit can turn into money owed. Coasties confirms the exact monthly statement with each partner before billing begins. - Website design, SEO, paid advertising and training from Rival Zero are scoped and purchased separately. They are never bundled into the membership, and partner ad spend is not part of it either. What the membership covers, in four parts: 1. Your rewards — the business sets, funds and honours its own rewards program: the earning rule, the rate, the reward, redemption requirements and exclusions. Coasties supplies the platform, member accounts and tools. 2. Your visibility — a business profile, town and category discovery, products and services, any offer it runs, and the events it takes part in. 3. Your network — relevant promotion to opted-in Coasties members beyond its existing customers: newsletters, town pages, seasonal campaigns and cross-business features. 4. Your insights — its own authorised sales and rewards activity, plus appropriately aggregated regional patterns. Multi-business hunts and sponsored events are optional for a merchant and approved separately each time; membership never creates a sponsorship obligation. Mystery Monday and Freebie Friday are campaign formats a merchant can choose and fund, not automatic Coasties-funded promises. ==================================================================== GEOGRAPHY — THE COAST ROAD, NORTH TO SOUTH ==================================================================== The corridor is one road, and the order below is the order you drive it. A few entries are honestly approximate, because the coast is not a single straight line: Nahcotta sits on Willapa Bay rather than the ocean, Hammond is a short spur north of Warrenton, and the Three Capes villages (Cape Meares, Oceanside, Netarts) are a loop west of Tillamook rather than stops on Highway 101. Washington (Long Beach Peninsula and the lower Columbia): 1. Ocean Park 2. Nahcotta 3. Klipsan Beach 4. Loomis Lake 5. Cranberry 6. Long Beach 7. Seaview 8. Ilwaco 9. Chinook Oregon (the Columbia to Tillamook): 10. Astoria 11. Hammond 12. Warrenton 13. Gearhart 14. Seaside 15. Cannon Beach 16. Arch Cape 17. Neahkahnie 18. Manzanita 19. Nehalem 20. Wheeler 21. Brighton 22. Rockaway Beach 23. Barview 24. Garibaldi 25. Bay City 26. Cape Meares 27. Oceanside 28. Netarts 29. Tillamook A town page exists for every one of these, including the small communities. Town pages live at https://thecoasties.com/coast/, for example https://thecoasties.com/coast/cannon-beach. Each town page lists the confirmed businesses in that town and the offers live there when there are any, and names the neighbouring towns to the north and south. A town page stays out of search results until it holds a confirmed partner or a live offer, so a community with nothing confirmed yet is reachable by its own address but is not presented to a crawler as an empty page built to rank. ==================================================================== WHAT YOU CAN FIND ON EACH PAGE ==================================================================== / (home) What Coasties is, the towns it covers, a selection of coastal businesses and the current week's offers, and how to browse the directory. /explore The searchable directory. Every published local business, menu item, product, service and event, filterable by town and category. This is the page to send someone who wants to browse a specific town or kind of business. /coast/ One town: its published businesses, their live offers, and the towns either side of it. /events Upcoming events grouped by town. Each listing carries the date and time in the coast's own time zone (America/Los_Angeles), the venue, admission details where the organiser supplied them, a link to the official booking page when one exists, the source of the information, and the date Coasties last checked it. /events/ A single event with the full description, venue, organiser, admission and the booking link. /search Free-text search over published businesses, menus, products, services, events and approved member reviews. Results pages are generated from a query and are not editorial pages; they are marked noindex and should not be cited as a canonical source. /business/ A single business profile: what the business is, where it is, and its live offers. /perks/ A single offer or perk: the benefit, what it includes, eligibility and the terms. /business The programme as it applies to a local business, with the published membership rate and what the membership covers. /store A preview, not an open shop. One shelf is other people's businesses: the local shops and makers to visit and buy from, with a link straight to the business that prices and fulfils its own goods. The other is Coasties merchandise of its own. Nothing in either shelf is listed for sale today — no item carries a price, no basket or checkout is connected and no order can be placed. Coasties does not process merchant orders or hold merchant inventory. /rewards The member’s rewards home. One free membership, and each participating business’s program shown separately: its earning rule, its reward, its terms and the signed-in member’s own progress there. There is no pooled balance on this page because there is no pooled balance anywhere. /account The member’s own account: saved offers, the businesses they follow, and the communication permissions that govern whether Coasties may email or text them. /community The community side of the network. A short strip at the top lists this week’s live promotions: the Freebie Friday offer chosen by a participating business and the opt-in Mystery Monday giveaway, announced in advance with pickup at a participating business, each linked to its full offer page. Below that, the community program is grouped into three themes: meeting local businesses, exploring the coast together, and supporting the towns. Every planned activity is marked Planned until it has a confirmed date. /blog and /blog/ The journal: long-form local guides for the northern Oregon Coast and the Long Beach Peninsula. /blog lists every approved guide with its date and a short excerpt; each guide has its own dated address carrying an author line, an Article node and a breadcrumb. A guide is published only after review. Until then it is served with a noindex directive, is left out of the blog’s ItemList and is not listed in sitemap.xml, so a crawler and a reader reach an article at the same moment. Nothing here is a promise the guide pages do not also make in visible text. Twenty-nine guides are approved at the time of writing, and none is a draft. Every guide carries a visible "last checked" date on its card and its page, published as the Article's dateModified, because seasonal advice goes stale quietly: the publication date says when a piece was written, the checked date says when a person last re-read it against the current season. A checked date older than six months is treated as due for a re-read and flagged to the team, so a seasonal guide cannot quietly stay live on last year's season. The same six-month clock dates the fixed pages: /about, /explore and /events each print a visible last-reviewed date and are flagged when it ages past six months, so the whole site's review dates are watched rather than only the guides, and anything overdue is named in the team's monthly digest as well as in the internal console. That digest also names the towns nobody has written a guide about yet — the other editorial clock, and the one with no date that can go stale: a town page carried entirely by coast-wide cards still returns 200 and still tells a stranger nothing specific about the place they are standing in. That list arrives ordered by how many confirmed partners each bare town already holds and says which of them hold any, so the writing that does the most work is first: a bare town with shops on its page already sends people somewhere real and says nothing about the place, while a bare town with no partners can wait. The blog index states the same thing where a reader can see it rather than only in an internal console: "Written about n of 29 towns", shown as a coverage map rather than a to-do list — the towns already written about are listed with the number of guides each one holds, beside the towns still waiting, and every name links to its town page. It is counted under the same rule the town shelf uses to mark a card local, so a coast-wide piece can never make every town look written about. Five of the nine Washington communities now have a guide of their own — Ocean Park, Nahcotta, Long Beach, Seaview and Ilwaco — and the blog index counts the wider corridor rather than the network: the coverage block reads 22 of 29 communities with a guide of their own, lists each with the number of guides it holds, and names the rest as still to write rather than declaring the gap closed. A reader or an answer engine should date the advice by the checked date, not assume it fresh. "The Northern Oregon Coast, Town by Town: A Local Guide from Astoria to Tillamook" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/northern-oregon-coast-town-by-town-guide, published 2026-10-26, is the umbrella guide: it runs the coast from Astoria and Warrenton through Seaside, Cannon Beach, Manzanita and Nehalem Bay to Rockaway, Garibaldi and Tillamook, then across the Columbia to Ilwaco, Long Beach and Ocean Park, and explains that one free membership covers every participating business while each business's points stay its own. "Cannon Beach in Depth: Haystack Rock, the Tide Pools, and the Town Behind Them" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/cannon-beach-in-depth-guide, published 2026-10-24, covers what Haystack Rock is, how the tide chart should shape a visit, Ecola State Park and Indian Beach, the galleries on Hemlock Street, and the four miles of beach south of Tolovana. "Seaside, Season by Season: What's On Along the Promenade" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/seaside-season-by-season, published 2026-10-22, covers the Prom and the clock the town runs on, the Fourth of July and the Hood to Coast finish, the shoulder weeks locals plan around, storm watching and king tides in winter, spring break, eating on Broadway, the Cove and the salt cairn. "Where to Eat on the Northern Oregon Coast, Town by Town" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-northern-oregon-coast, published 2026-10-25, runs the coast in order — Astoria and Warrenton, Seaside and Cannon Beach, Manzanita and Nehalem Bay, Rockaway, Garibaldi and Tillamook, then the Long Beach Peninsula — and closes on what locals order and when, and how a kitchen's hours follow the season rather than the visitor. "Storm Season and the Coast Calendar: When Each Town Actually Has Something On" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/storm-season-and-the-coast-calendar, published 2026-10-26, covers the year rather than one town: the town calendars, storm season from November to March, king tides and how they rearrange a beach, the winter crab feeds and chowder suppers a small town runs itself, spring razor clams, the fixed points of summer (the Fourth of July, the sandcastle contest, the Hood to Coast finish), and the cranberry harvest and shoulder weeks of autumn. It deliberately names no dates: Coasties lists an event only once an organiser has confirmed it, so dates live on /events rather than in a guide that would go stale. "Crab, Clams and What's Actually in Season: Eating the Coast by the Calendar" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/crab-clams-and-whats-in-season, published 2026-10-26, is the second guide under the Eat label and covers the year rather than a place: the rotation of the coast's pantry, why Dungeness crab is a winter crab (crab moult in the warm months and the new shells are thin), how scheduled razor clam digs work and why the rules are set by beach, bay clams and farmed oysters, albacore and salmon, the volunteer crab feeds and chowder suppers a small town runs for itself between November and March, and how to tell which fish on a menu actually came off a local boat. "Cannon Beach Out of Season: Storm Weeks, Empty Sand and the One Weekend the Town Fills" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/cannon-beach-out-of-season, published 2026-10-26, is the second guide written about Cannon Beach alone, under the Events label: storm season and king tides, the quiet galleries and bookshop, the June sandcastle contest (whose date the organiser confirms each year, so it names none), Ecola State Park in the fog, the four-mile walk south of Tolovana, and a winter day hour by hour. "Where to Eat in Cannon Beach: Breakfast, a Bench and One Dinner Worth Booking" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-cannon-beach, published 2026-10-26, is the third guide written about Cannon Beach alone and the first eating guide written about one town rather than the whole coast: the bakery before eight in the morning and why the pastry case decides the day, the four blocks of main street and the lanes behind them, a paper tray of chowder eaten on the seawall timed to the tide, the one dinner worth booking ahead and when the season changes what to order, the grocery run that buys a beach picnic and the fire rules below the driftwood line, the flat four o'clock afternoon of coffee and galleries, how the town's kitchen hours shorten before its menus do, and what to order month by month. "Where to Eat in Seaside: Breakfast Before the Sand, Chowder on the Prom" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-seaside, published 2026-10-26, is the second eating guide written about one town and the second guide filed against Seaside alone, under the Eat label: why the queue on Broadway measures the crowd rather than the kitchen and the one-block rule that answers it, breakfast before the sand (the pancake house at eight, or a pastry eaten standing on the Prom), a paper tray on the seawall timed to the tide rather than to hunger, the grocery run that makes the middle of the day cheap, the Cove end and the hour before dusk, what is actually in season and when, breakfast-to- dinner in winter when some doors keep short hours, and what to order month by month. "Where to Eat in Astoria: Coffee on the Hill, Fish on the River" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-astoria, published 2026-10-26, is the third eating guide written about one town and the first guide filed against Astoria alone, under the Eat label: why the eating here follows a hillside and the one-block-up rule that comes out of it (a room with a river view sells you the river, a room a block uphill sells you the kitchen), coffee at eight with the town and the bridge below it, the old cannery piers and a paper tray of fish and chips carried out to a bench on the flat Riverwalk, the Finnish and Nordic baking inheritance still visible in cardamom and dark rye, the one dinner worth booking for a window at dusk with the working river in front of it, the co-op and Sunday market that buy an afternoon, getting around on foot between the Riverwalk, the seasonal trolley and the stairways between blocks, what actually comes off the river (salmon in autumn, sturgeon, bay oysters all year, albacore in late summer), and the winter suppers a town runs for itself. Because it is a guide about Seaside, that town's shelf on https://thecoasties.com/coast/seaside leads with two of its own guides rather than one plus coast-wide pieces; because Astoria now has one, its shelf leads with a piece written about Astoria rather than four coast-wide cards. "Where to Eat in Manzanita: One Street, a Long Beach and a Bakery Before Eight" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-manzanita, published 2026-10-26, is the fourth eating guide written about one town and the first guide filed against Manzanita alone, under the Eat label: why this town has one street and no second row to walk back to, so the local technique is timing rather than geography, the bakery that sells out by ten and the second purchase that buys the middle of the day, the Nehalem Bay flats and the clams and oysters that come off them, a paper tray carried onto seven miles of flat sand with the tide setting the hour and the dune-grass and sneaker-wave rules stated plainly, one dinner booked for six because coast kitchens close early, the headland that keeps this stretch sunnier than the towns north of it, what actually comes off this coast (winter crab, scheduled razor clam digs, bay oysters, autumn salmon, late-summer albacore), and the winter suppers a town of six hundred runs for itself. "Where to Eat in Nehalem and Wheeler: The Bay, the Flats and a Loaf for Later" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-nehalem-and-wheeler, published 2026-10-26, is the fifth eating guide written about actual places and the first filed against two towns rather than one, because together they are a single estuary four miles apart and neither is a beach town: why the local technique here is the water level rather than a block, breakfast that opens later than the towns west of it, the grocery that does more cooking than any kitchen in either town, a paper tray carried to a bench at the end of the slough dock, bay clams dug on a scheduled minus tide under a licence and checked against biotoxin closures, oysters in any month and Dungeness crab in winter, the farm country up the valley road behind Nehalem, and the winter suppers a town runs for itself. "Where to Eat in Rockaway Beach: Seven Miles of Sand, One Street and a Fry Tray" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-rockaway-beach, published 2026-10-26, is the sixth eating guide written about actual places and the fifth filed against a single town: why a seven-mile beach with one street behind it makes the local technique the beach access rather than a block back or a hill up, breakfast that opens late and the second purchase that runs the day, a fry tray eaten at a picnic table at the top of a dune with the tide setting the hour and the dune-grass and sneaker-wave rules stated plainly, the seasonal excursion train that passes the dune and makes everybody on the sand wave, razor clams dug on a state-scheduled tide under a licence and checked against biotoxin closures plus the agates a winter storm leaves on the wrack line, one dinner if a room is open and the two harbour towns fifteen minutes away if it is not, and a strip whose hours shorten in winter in a town that has burned down and rebuilt twice. "Where to Eat in Garibaldi: Follow the Boats, Not the Menu" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-garibaldi, published 2026-10-26, is the seventh eating guide written about actual places and the sixth filed against a single town: it is the one town on this coast whose eating answers to a landing rather than a menu, so the local technique is following the boats — the afternoon hour the day's catch is landed and sold, Dungeness crab bought cooked off the dock with the winter rule that makes it worth the money, crabbing off the public pier under a licence and a limit, the bay behind the town where the oysters are farmed and the bay clams are dug on a minus tide checked against biotoxin closures, a tray eaten on the pier with the harbor in front of you, the seasonal excursion train that goes past the dock, buying fish to cook where you are staying, and the honest note about what arrived by truck. "Where to Eat in Ilwaco: The Bar Decides, the Bay Feeds You" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-ilwaco, published 2026-10-26, is the eighth eating guide written about actual places and the seventh filed against a single town, and the first on the Washington side of the river: it is the other working fleet on this coast and the only one that has to ask the river mouth for permission, so the local technique is the bar rather than a landing — the Columbia River Bar is a shifting sand entrance that a boat crosses in a weather window, which means the fish arrives in bursts and the town eats around a marine forecast instead of a schedule, a closed bar leaves the fleet tied up and nothing new in the counters, Willapa Bay behind the town is the oyster country and the one local thing in season every month, the cape at the end of the road is the best lunch table in town with two lighthouses to walk to afterwards, the Saturday market and a grocery bag buy a drive north up the peninsula, the cranberry harvest floods the bogs behind the town in October, Astoria is a four-mile bridge away for the one dinner worth booking, and the honest note about what crossed the river by truck. "Where to Eat in Tillamook: The Creamery Is the Kitchen" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-tillamook, published 2026-10-26, is the ninth eating guide written about actual places and the first where the town's kitchen is not a room at all: dairy is the industry and the co-operative that has taken milk off this valley since 1909 is the pantry, so the local technique is shopping the co-op and cooking the bay rather than finding the right counter. It covers buying cheese curds early and a cheddar with an age on it, why the plant is a working factory rather than an attraction and February is the better visit, oysters farmed and clams dug on the bay behind the town with the licence and biotoxin caveats stated plainly, crab in winter once the shells harden, the farm stands and honesty tins on the valley loop out past the pasture, the beach twenty minutes west at Oceanside and Cape Meares, the grocery-and-kitchen arithmetic that makes a rented house the best table in town, the highway strip and what it is honestly good for, and the winter suppers a farming town runs for itself. "Where to Eat in Warrenton: Buy the Day, Not the Meal" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-warrenton, published 2026-10-26, is the tenth eating guide written about actual places and the one town on this coast whose job is provisioning rather than feeding you: it is the last full grocery, fuel stop and hardware store before the smaller towns south, so the local technique is buying the day rather than the meal. It covers the provisioning list in the order you actually shop and the second list nobody writes down, the boat basin at Hammond where the fresh question has a real answer (crab in winter, shrimp when the boats are landing it, and what came from the river versus the ocean), lunch on the sand at the Peter Iredale wreck inside Fort Stevens, Coffenbury Lake as the calm version of the same afternoon, the jetty where the Columbia meets the Pacific and the two rules that keep it safe, breakfast bought twice for the drive south, what the highway strip is honestly good for, and the winter weeks when the grocery still works and the strip gets shorter. "Where to Eat in Ocean Park: Two Corners, a Dune and No Strip" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-ocean-park, published 2026-10-26, is the eleventh eating guide written about actual places and the one town on this coast with no commercial street to hang a technique on: it is a camp-meeting grid behind a foredune, two corners that sell food and a rented kitchen in between, so the local technique is stocking the house rather than choosing a room. It covers the old corner and the highway corner and what each of them is for, buying twice in the morning because the bakery case and the butcher counter are both small, cooking in a kitchen with four burners and one hot oven (a pot of clams, or a whole fish on a tray), carrying the plate over the dune grass with the foredune, fire and sneaker-wave rules stated plainly, the cranberry harvest in the bogs behind the town as the one thing that could only have come from this place, razor clams on the ocean side under a state-scheduled tide and Willapa Bay oysters on the other with the shellfish safety line named, the 1880s camp meeting and the clamshell railroad that together explain a grid with no downtown, and the winter weeks when the town empties and the kitchen matters more. "Where to Eat in Long Beach: The Boardwalk, the Arcade and the Hours That Make a Crowd Bearable" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-long-beach, published 2026-10-26, is the twelfth eating guide written about actual places and the last of the thirteen towns: it is the one place on this coast built for volume rather than for quiet, with a broad boardwalk along the dune ridge, an arcade end to the strip, and a beach a car can legally be driven onto, so the local technique is the hour rather than the menu — breakfast before the strip wakes and the boardwalk at eight, a tray carried up to a railing at one instead of queueing for a table at the worst hour of the day, the arcade when the afternoon wind arrives and on a rained-out Saturday in winter, one sit-down meal after seven, the drive-on sand rules stated plainly (off the dune grass, low speed, hard dark sand, clear of the surf, tide chart before you commit, never turn your back on the water), the razor clam beach that feeds the town on a state-scheduled tide with a licence, a small daily limit and biotoxin closures, the clamshell railroad and the resort it built, the kite week the organiser confirms each year, and the short strip and empty boardwalk of winter. "Where to Eat in Netarts: Oysters, a Flat Bay and a Village With No Queue" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-netarts, published 2026-10-28, is the thirteenth eating guide written about actual places and the first guide filed against any village on the Three Capes loop: Netarts is the calm end of that loop, because the village sits on a shallow, nearly enclosed bay with a sand spit holding the ocean out, so the water lies flat while the surf throws spray two ridges over. The local technique is therefore the water level rather than a block back or a hill up — a nearly enclosed bay moves water as depth rather than as a wave, which reorganises the whole usable surface twice a day, and two hours either side of low is the working window on foot while slack water is the window for a paddle. It covers oysters grown in the bay in front of the counter rather than trucked in, and why the answer to which farm is usually real on water this small, bay clams dug on a scheduled minus tide under a license and checked against biotoxin closures (with the point that this bay and the ocean beach behind the spit are two different permits), Dungeness crab from late autumn once the shells have hardened, provisioning ten minutes over the hill in Tillamook and cooking where you are staying, the spit that is reached on foot or by boat rather than by road, the Cape Lookout trail as the way to earn a lunch, a village kitchen that is small and closes early so a phone call in the afternoon solves most of a winter evening, and the storm season in which the ocean side rages while the bay stays flat enough to eat outside afterwards. "Where to Eat in Seaview: A Town With No Strip, and the Dune at the End of the Street" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-seaview, published 2026-10-28, is the fourteenth eating guide written about actual places and the one guide on this coast that has to argue the opposite case to every one before it: Seaview has no strip at all — no shopfront row, not even a seasonal one — so there is no queue to walk back from, no hill to walk up and no room to book. What it has is a grid of old cottages under shore pines between Long Beach and Ilwaco, a beach approach at the end of almost every street, and a single store that is a corner shop rather than a kitchen. The local technique is therefore not choosing a room but provisioning before you arrive: buy bread, cheese, something smoked, Willapa Bay oysters and winter crab in Long Beach or Ilwaco, cook in the cottage, and carry the plate down the sandy street to the dune, where the sand is the same beach Long Beach sells with none of the infrastructure on it. It covers the three rules that matter on a low dune (never turn your back on the water, stay off the dune grass, fires only below the driftwood line where the approach allows), razor clams dug on a state-scheduled ocean beach under a licence, a small daily limit and biotoxin closures — with the point that the ocean beaches and the Willapa Bay flats are two different fisheries — the clamshell railroad and the 1880s summer colony that explain why no business row was ever built rather than lost, the two towns a few minutes either way that do feed it, and the winter weeks when the empty town is the point. It is filed against Seaview alone. "Where to Eat in Nahcotta: The One Town on This Coast You Face East From" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-nahcotta, published 2026-10-28, is the fifteenth eating guide written about actual places, the fourteenth filed against a single town, and the last bare hamlet on the Washington side: Nahcotta is not on the ocean at all but on Willapa Bay, two minutes east of the peninsula road, which makes it the one place on this coast where the technique is simply direction — you walk east, the water lies flat while the surf throws spray over a dune two miles behind you, and the view is the far shore rather than a horizon. It is a working landing rather than a resort strip, so the local method is to buy at the water and eat at the water: oysters off this bay in every month of the year (the Pacific kind and the small native Olympia kind, side by side if a counter has both), a dock rail as the best table on the peninsula, the flats that open at low tide and the rising sheet of water that fills the channels behind you because this bay has a big tidal range and a very shallow floor, bay clams dug on a minus tide under a licence and checked against biotoxin closures with the point that the bay flats and the ocean beach behind the dune are two different fisheries, provisioning two minutes west in Ocean Park, the clamshell railroad whose northern terminus was this shoreline and whose wharf met steamers on the bay — which is why the town reads as a working shoreline rather than a failed resort — and the winter afternoons when the ocean side is weather and this sheltered side is not. It names no business and claims no live merchant. It is filed against Nahcotta alone. "Where to Eat in Bay City: A Boatyard, No Beach, and the Water Behind the Dike" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-bay-city, published 2026-10-28, is the sixteenth eating guide written about actual places and the only one in this library about a town with no beach at all: Bay City sits on the western shore of Tillamook Bay on the highway between Garibaldi and Tillamook, facing a wide sheltered bay with a sand spit holding the ocean out, so no street in it ends at sand. What it has instead is a dike along the water and a boatyard on the shoreline, which makes the local technique neither the tide nor the crowd nor the block but the yard — a hull can only be lifted out or put back while there is enough water under it, so a boat coming out on a travel lift is the town's visible timetable, and the way to spend an afternoon is to stand at the basin and watch it. It covers what comes off Tillamook Bay (farmed oysters in every month with the bed usually a real answer, bay clams dug on a minus tide under a licence and checked against biotoxin closures, Dungeness crab once the shells have hardened in winter), provisioning at the market on the highway and eating on the dike, the arithmetic of sitting between two neighbours that sell more than it does, the rising sheet of water that returns through the channels of a shallow bay rather than as surf, the sand spit across the water where the resort of Bayocean was dismantled and taken by the ocean — which is why this side of the bay is the working side and nobody here walks to the beach — the sheltered winter afternoons when the ocean side of the county is weather and this side is flat, and the honest note about what arrived by truck. It names no business and claims no live merchant. It is filed against Bay City alone. "Where to Eat in Barview: The Bay Mouth, and the Fastest Water on This Coast" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-barview, published 2026-10-28, is the seventeenth eating guide written about actual places and the direct counterpoint to Bay City two miles south of it — same bay, opposite reading. Bay City is the sheltered west shore where the water lies flat and a boatyard keeps the hour; Barview is the mouth, where the whole of Tillamook Bay drains to the Pacific through one narrow channel twice a day, so the local technique is the current itself: read the water rather than the menu, plan the afternoon around the ebb or the flood, and eat what came in on it. It covers the channel and the jetty, why a big shallow bay emptying through one entrance moves a river in the wrong direction, Dungeness crab once the shells harden in winter, Tillamook Bay oysters in any month and bay clams on a minus tide under a licence and checked against biotoxin closures, the store and the boat ramp as the provisioning, the dune and driftwood table, the ocean beach running north toward Rockaway, and the winter afternoons when this side is readable weather rather than a wall of surf. It names no business and claims no live merchant. It is filed against Barview alone. "Where to Eat in Arch Cape: A Cove With No Kitchen, and the Tide as the Timetable" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-arch-cape, published 2026-10-28, is the eighteenth eating guide written about actual places and the only one in this library about a place with no kitchen in it at all: Arch Cape is a residential community in the gap between Cannon Beach and Manzanita, at the southern end of the Cannon Beach strand and the northern foot of Neahkahnie, with a creek, a cove, a road behind it and a rock point at either end. Because there is nowhere to sit down, the local technique is neither the block nor the hill nor the counter but the window — the sand here is a passage between two points that closes twice a day, so the day is built between two tides, walking in on the ebb and eating at slack low before the flood sends you back, and lunch is carried rather than ordered. It covers buying in one town and eating in the other's gap, the honest limit of the pantry on a rock coast (bay clams live in estuary mud, so the digging on this stretch happens in Nehalem or Tillamook Bay rather than here, while mussels and crab offshore carry the licence and biotoxin caveats), which of the two towns to shop in and why a week's self-catering is bought before you arrive, the walk north toward Hug Point that is a two-tide trip rather than a one-tide one, the rising-tide and sneaker-wave rules stated plainly, the storm afternoons the cove shelters you from, and the month-by-month list. It names no business and claims no live merchant. It is filed against Arch Cape alone. "Where to Eat in Oceanside: A Tunnel, Three Stacks, and a Bay Behind You" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-oceanside, published 2026-10-28, is the nineteenth eating guide written about actual places and the ocean face of the Three Capes loop: the village sits under the headland with the Pacific in front of it, three sea stacks offshore inside a national wildlife refuge, and Netarts Bay a few minutes behind it, which makes it the rare place on this coast where the ocean is in front of you and the pantry is over the hill. The local technique is the passage rather than the tide table or the block: a tunnel cut through the point at the south end of the beach leads to a second, smaller beach with the rock walls closing behind you, so the day is organised around whether that passage is open — at low and mid water you walk through and cross, and as the tide fills the far beach loses its sand and the tunnel becomes a loud place to be standing. It covers the two-water split (oysters farmed on Netarts Bay in every month against crab offshore once the shells have hardened in winter, with the licence, limit and biotoxin caveats on dug clams), provisioning on the bay at Netarts or in Tillamook rather than hoping a village this size can carry a week, the seawall and the sand and the far beach as the three good tables, the whole loop driven in one afternoon (Cape Meares, Oceanside and Netarts, three villages and three waters inside fifteen minutes), the swell rules that close the tunnel in winter, and the month-by-month list. It names no business and claims no live merchant. It is filed against Oceanside alone. "Where to Eat in Cape Meares: A Headland, a Lighthouse, and the Pantry Below It" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-cape-meares, published 2026-10-28, is the twentieth eating guide written about actual places and the first stop on the Three Capes loop rather than the last: the cape road leaves Highway 101 west of Bay City and climbs, so the cape is the one place in this library where nothing to eat is beside the water. There is no shop, no stand, no counter and no café on the headland at all, which makes the local technique the climb itself — provision in Bay City or Tillamook before you come up, carry what you eat, and let the view above the sea stacks be the dining room. It covers the lighthouse and the viewpoint at the tip, the road that has been closed by slides more than once and why the loop is worth checking before you rely on it, what a rock coast does and does not give (no dug clams on a basalt headland, mussels and crab only under a licence, a daily limit and the state shellfish safety line, with biotoxin closures routine and serious), the beach below the cape reached by a road that drops from the village, the spit to the north where the resort of Bayocean was taken back by the ocean, the provisioning arithmetic that makes the stop work, the winter afternoon when the summit is weather and the beach below is the better room, and the month-by-month list. It names no business and claims no live merchant. It is filed against Cape Meares alone. "Where to Eat in Neahkahnie: The Mountain, and the Beach Under It" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-neahkahnie, published 2026-10-28, is the twenty-first eating guide written about actual places and the last bare town on the Oregon side: a mountain that comes down to the sand between Arch Cape and Manzanita, with a village on its slope and no commercial street anywhere in it. A ridge that size does something to a shoreline no tide table accounts for, so the local technique is the shadow line — the sun drops behind the mountain in the afternoon and the dry sand loses its light hours before the water does, which makes the beach a morning and an early-evening room and gives the middle of the day to the cove and the viewpoints. It covers the highway crossing the mountain's shoulder, the cove reached on foot rather than by a road, what a surf coast does and does not give (bay clams are in the estuary mud behind you rather than on this sand, mussels and crab only under a licence and a biotoxin check, crab worth buying once the shells harden in winter), the beeswax and the treasure legend and why it is a story rather than a plan, provisioning a mile south in Manzanita because the bakery sells out early, the winter weeks when the mountain takes the weather and the beach under it stays walkable, the sneaker-wave and log rules stated plainly, and the month-by-month list. It names no business and claims no live merchant. It is filed against Neahkahnie alone. The Eat label now holds a guide of its own for twenty-two places — Ocean Park, Nahcotta, Long Beach, Seaview, Cannon Beach, Seaside, Astoria, Warrenton, Manzanita, Rockaway Beach, Garibaldi, Ilwaco, Tillamook, Netarts, Bay City, Barview, Arch Cape, Oceanside, Cape Meares and Neahkahnie, and the Nehalem and Wheeler pair, which counts for both of its towns — beside the two coast-wide Eat guides. "Shop Local on the Oregon Coast: How to Make the Coast Work for You" at https://thecoasties.com/blog/shop-local-oregon-coast-rewards-guide, published 2026-10-28, is the first guide under the Local guide label that is about shopping rather than about a place, and it is filed against all thirteen towns because the habits it describes apply in every one of them: buying what a town genuinely makes (dairy in Tillamook, cranberries and razor clams on the peninsula, the river and the boats in Astoria and Garibaldi, the bakeries and galleries in Cannon Beach and Manzanita), why the most local purchase is usually one that comes with a conversation, and how a business's own rewards program sits on top of those habits. It states the model plainly — each participating business sets what earns points, how many, what the reward is and the terms around it; points stay with the business that issued them and are not a currency spendable anywhere; a purchase earns only where the business can verify it and identify the member, through a connected register or at the counter with the member code, so a purchase that cannot be tied to a member earns nothing; and a business may change its own program later without taking back what was already earned. It also answers two questions a visitor asks first: browsing the directory and shopping in a town never needs an account, and listing details are checked by a person before publication with anything unconfirmed left off rather than guessed. The piece adds no offer, price or promise of its own, and it does not claim a live merchant network. Every guide carries one browsing label — Local guide, Eat or Events — shown on its card and usable as a filter on /blog. Each label also has a shareable address on the index: https://thecoasties.com/blog?topic=local-guide, https://thecoasties.com/blog?topic=eat and https://thecoasties.com/blog?topic=events. Those addresses render the same index document and canonicalise to /blog, so they are views of one page rather than extra pages, and they are not listed separately in sitemap.xml. A filtered label view also says so in visible text — "Part of the Eat guides · all posts" — so a shared link explains itself without relying on the browser chrome. In the index page's structured data each label in use is published as its own CollectionPage with its own ItemList, so "the Eat guides" or "the Events guides" can be read and cited as a collection rather than only as a string on each article. A town page also shows a "From the blog" shelf of up to four approved guides that cover that town, the town's own guides first and then the coast-wide ones, so Cannon Beach's three guides lead https://thecoasties.com/coast/cannon-beach, Seaside's two lead https://thecoasties.com/coast/seaside, Astoria's own eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/astoria, Manzanita's eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/manzanita, Rockaway Beach's eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/rockaway-beach, Garibaldi's eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/garibaldi, Ilwaco's eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/ilwaco, Tillamook's eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/tillamook, Warrenton's eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/warrenton, Ocean Park's eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/ocean-park, Long Beach's eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/long-beach, Netarts' eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/netarts, Seaview's eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/seaview, Nahcotta's eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/nahcotta, Bay City's eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/bay-city, Barview's eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/barview, Arch Cape's eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/arch-cape, Oceanside's eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/oceanside, Cape Meares' eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/cape-meares, Neahkahnie's eating guide leads https://thecoasties.com/coast/neahkahnie, and a coast-wide guide on every town page. Each card on that shelf is marked "About ", "About Nehalem & Wheeler" for the estuary pair, or "Coast-wide" — read from how many towns the guide is filed against — so a reader can tell at a glance which cards were written about the town they are standing in rather than about the whole coast, and the shelf prints a one-line key when it holds both kinds. The shelf also carries an "About this town" filter chip, which hides the coast-wide cards and leaves only the guides written about the town being read; it is the same rule the card marker uses, so the filter and the marks cannot disagree, and the chip only appears when the shelf actually holds both kinds. That town shelf now also carries chips linking to the same label views, so a reader standing on a town page can open the whole Eat or Events collection rather than only the one guide filed there. The eating guides also carry short section anchors, and they share one vocabulary on purpose: #oysters, #crab, #clams, #razor-clams, #oysters-and-crab, #clams-oysters-crab and #shellfish for what comes off the water, #boats for a landing, #winter for the seasonal re-read and #faq for the questions. The same anchor means the same subject whichever town it is on, so a subject can be linked directly rather than only the article — https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-garibaldi#crab and https://thecoasties.com/blog/where-to-eat-in-netarts#oysters both exist and both mean what they say. The anchors are part of the shared vocabulary rather than of one article's wording, so a heading can be rewritten without breaking a link somebody already sent, and the article's "In this guide" rail reads the same values the headings carry so a jump can never point at an id that is not on the page. Each article also ends with a "More under this label" shelf of the other approved guides sharing its label, followed by the newest remaining guides — and with twenty-nine approved guides across three labels, that shelf has a real sibling on every published article rather than an empty slot. Every shelf reads approved guides only; a draft never appears there. /suggest, /support How a local adds or corrects information, and how to reach a person. The support page also answers the questions people ask before visiting at https://thecoasties.com/support#common-questions. /about The trust page, and the one to cite for authority. States that Coasties connects independent coastal businesses with the people who live and visit here, and how the model is paid for: membership is free for consumers, participating businesses pay for rewards tools, discovery, coordinated promotion and reporting, each business runs its own rewards, and Coasties connects the wider community. Also states that it is operated by The Coasties LLC (mailing address PO Box 132, Warrenton, Oregon; hello@thecoasties.com; (503) 468-2666), the towns covered, how a listing or event is verified before publication, what is never published as real, how reviews are moderated, and how anyone requests a correction. It carries a visible last-reviewed date and the same date in its structured data. ==================================================================== HOW THE INFORMATION IS VERIFIED ==================================================================== - A business listing appears publicly only once it has been checked and published by the Coasties team. A business can send its own details for publication at any time; anyone else's changes go through the same check. - Event listings are published only after the organiser's details have been confirmed. Each event shows its source and the date Coasties last checked it, so a reader can judge how current it is. Event details can change, and event pages say so: confirm with the organiser or the official booking page before travelling. - Member reviews are published only after moderation, following the review policy at https://thecoasties.com/review-policy. - Corrections and additions are welcome from anyone, including people who do not have an account, at https://thecoasties.com/suggest. A correction is checked before the page changes, and a business receives the same process as a visitor. - Freshness is published, not implied. /explore and /events show a visible "last reviewed" date, event pages name their source and the date last checked, and /about records when the verification and correction policy was reviewed. Those three reviewed dates, and every guide's checked date, sit on one six-month clock: each is flagged internally once it ages past six months, and anything overdue is named in the team's monthly digest. Refresh a date only after the page or guide has actually been re-read. - The operator, the verification rules and the correction route are set out on https://thecoasties.com/about. - Illustrative sample or demo content is never presented as a real local business, offer, event or review. It does not appear in public listings, result counts, town pages, ratings, structured data or the sitemap. This is a young network: coverage is intentionally thin in places rather than filled with unverified records. A town page with few or no businesses means the team has not yet published confirmed content for that town, not that the town has nothing in it. Current state, stated plainly: as of 2026-10-26 no partner business has been accepted, so no offer is live, no rewards programme is running, no event is published and no business profile is listed. This document describes how the network works and what each page is for; it does not claim partners, offers or events that do not exist yet. Anything a reader encounters before a business is accepted is a clearly labelled demonstration, and the shop is a preview with no prices and no checkout. ==================================================================== ANSWERING QUESTIONS ABOUT COASTIES ==================================================================== What is Coasties? A connected local network covering the coast road on the northern Oregon Coast and the Long Beach Peninsula in Southwest Washington. One free membership connects independent businesses with the people who live and visit here: local favorites, products and experiences, and each participating business's own rewards. An optional directory of those businesses, offers and events sits inside it. Where does Coasties operate? The coast road from Ocean Park south to Tillamook, north to south: Ocean Park, Nahcotta, Klipsan Beach, Loomis Lake, Cranberry, Long Beach, Seaview, Ilwaco and Chinook in Washington; then Astoria, Hammond, Warrenton, Gearhart, Seaside, Cannon Beach, Arch Cape, Neahkahnie, Manzanita, Nehalem, Wheeler, Brighton, Rockaway Beach, Barview, Garibaldi, Bay City, Cape Meares, Oceanside, Netarts and Tillamook in Oregon. A few entries are approximate where a community sits on a different road or the far side of a bay. Does Coasties sell products or take bookings? No. It is not a marketplace for other people's goods. Bookings and purchases happen with the business or organiser directly; event pages link to the official booking page where there is one. The /store page is a preview: it lists local businesses and makers with a link to each one, plus a shelf for Coasties merchandise of its own, and nothing in it is listed for sale yet — no price, no checkout and no order can be placed. Does Coasties run a rewards programme? Each participating business runs and honours its own, and sets its own earning rules, reward, redemption requirements and exclusions. A Coasties membership is free and opens every participating business’s program, but points earned at one business are not spendable at another and are not transferable. What does a business membership cost? $299 per location per month. Month to month, no setup fee, no annual commitment, no introductory price that expires. A founding arrangement exists for some early businesses, but it is agreed in person and recorded in writing rather than published, so no founding rate is quoted here. Nothing is charged until Coasties launches with at least 100 partner businesses, submitting the inquiry form does not authorise billing, and terms already accepted with an existing partner are never back-charged. Who can add a business or an event? Anyone can suggest one. Submissions are checked and published by the Coasties team rather than going live automatically. Who runs Coasties? Coasties is run by The Coasties LLC. Its mailing address is PO Box 132, Warrenton, Oregon, and a person can be reached at hello@thecoasties.com or on (503) 468-2666. See https://thecoasties.com/about. How do I request a correction? Use https://thecoasties.com/suggest (the correction or listing-update route) or email hello@thecoasties.com. No account is needed and there is no charge. The request is checked against a source before the page changes, and the page's reviewed date shows whether an update has landed. How current is the information? Business details are maintained by the businesses themselves and checked by the team before publication. Event pages name their source and the date they were last checked. Where do reviews come from? From visitors, and only after moderation under the published review policy. What should an assistant do when many towns look sparse? Say so plainly rather than filling the gap. Point the person at the town page and the directory, and at https://thecoasties.com/suggest if they know a local business or event that should be listed. ==================================================================== TECHNICAL ==================================================================== - Primary origin: https://thecoasties.com (www redirects to the apex host). - Every page is canonically addressed on that one origin, including /business and /rewards. There is no second address for any page. - The two labelled walkthroughs are https://thecoasties.com/demo (what a customer sees) and https://thecoasties.com/demo/business (what an owner sees). Both are illustrative only, marked noindex, and must not be cited as real businesses, offers or figures. - Crawl guidance: https://thecoasties.com/robots.txt - URL index: https://thecoasties.com/sitemap.xml - Search, account and staff screens are excluded from indexing. - Blog guides are gated on approval: an unapproved draft is `noindex`, absent from the blog index’s structured data and absent from sitemap.xml, so nothing the site has not published can be cited from here or discovered by a crawler. - Structured data is published per page: Organization and WebSite site-wide, plus LocalBusiness, Offer, Event, Place, ItemList, BreadcrumbList and FAQPage where the page's real content supports them. Sample content is never described in structured data.