The Oregon Coast is just a 90 minute drive from downtown Portland, but this is as close as you'll get to the Tillamook Rock Light! (Video Credit: Gus Jewell - http://bit.ly/2iBiVSg) | Travel Portland

A crew landed on Oregon's ‘Terrible Tilly’ lighthouse for first time in years. Five volunteers braved a brief but chilling helicopter ride Tuesday to return from “Terrible Tilly,” the abandoned 142-year-old Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, a watery mile off northern Oregon’s coast. The four men and one woman, age 29-58, had camped three nights on the exposed basalt outpost and spent their days cleaning up the stone fortress to ready it for sale. Oregon’s only offshore light station, rising 133 feet ab