DRONE ARCHIVE · 2019–2022
Face Rock Heights: An Area In Transition
A visual record of the area before and during its transformation from Bandon’s long-isolated “donut hole” into the emerging Face Rock Heights neighborhood.
These videos were created between 2019 and 2022 to document and highlight the Face Rock Heights area for the local community. They predate the current property offering and provide historical context for the clearing, access, geography and evolution of this part of west Bandon.
Conditions, access routes and development plans shown in older videos may have changed. For current physical-property information, see Site Conditions. For current transportation, utility and planning context, see Property & Planning.
FEATURED HISTORICAL VIDEO
Face Rock Heights Before the Clearing
Low Fly-Over · September 2019
A low-altitude drone flight across Face Rock Heights before significant gorse clearing began. Recorded in September 2019, it provides a rare visual baseline of the area before clearing opened the landscape and made its street grid, geography and relationship to surrounding Bandon neighborhoods much easier to see.
More views of Face Rock Heights in transition
Slow Tour of Face Rock Heights
A methodical aerial orbit around the Face Rock Heights area, providing a useful view of the neighborhood, surrounding streets and the extent of clearing underway by mid-2022.
Face Rock Heights — In the Heart of Bandon
A stationary 360-degree drone view from high above Face Rock Heights, near the geographic center of Bandon. As the panorama progresses through north, east, south and west, key roads, landmarks, neighborhoods and coastal features are identified.
The panoramic views provide a remarkable geographic overview of the area — from Bandon Dunes Golf Resort to the north (in the distance), the Coastal Mountains to the east, Haystack Rock and beyond to the south, and, of course, Bandon’s famous Face Rock to the west.
From this central vantage point, Face Rock Heights comes into focus as a place truly in the heart of Bandon — with the city, the coast and the surrounding landscape unfolding in every direction.
Then and now . . .
The contrast with what is now planned is remarkable. The contemplated 21st Street SW connection would create a direct east–west route through the area, paired with a landscaped multi-use path and bioswale leading toward the coast. Together with the contemplated north–south Franklin Avenue Greenway, these improvements would create a more connected pedestrian network through Face Rock Heights. What was once a circuitous walk toward the coast is poised to become something altogether different: a comfortable, scenic stroll toward the beach along a thoughtfully designed pedestrian corridor.
That transformation is part of what makes this older footage so compelling. It captures Face Rock Heights before today’s transportation, utility and multimodal-access planning placed the area in a very different development context.