Originally Posted by PIONEER
I would maybe add Napa/Sonoma Valley, but that's about it....
Yachats is a nice little city, but no fine dining. I'd go a bit further north, maybe stay at Salishan, and have dinner there or better yet at Bay House.
I wouldn't skip the Napa Valley either, but I'd do it as a day trip from SFO rather than an overnight.
Not a huge fan of Salishan, but agree no "fine dining" in Yachats (or, IMO anywhere else in the Florence-Newport stretch.)
To be honest, if the OP wanted to cut a day or two out of this itinerary, it could be done easily by peeling away from the coast at Reedsport, taking SR 38 over to the freeway, then north to Portland (or, maybe better, to the Yamhill Co. wine country.) SR 38 follows the Umpqua through a gorgeous canyon for a ways, and is (IMO) the nicest route through the Coast Range to I-5. They will have seen enough beautiful coast on Calif. SR1 and US 101 in Oregon that it won't be that huge a sacrifice to skip the bits north of Reedsport.