It continues north along the western edge of the Willamette Valley, hugging the Coast Range.

It passes through parts of Oregon's wine country (and some prime agricultural land), and through small towns such as Carlton,[3] Yamhill,[3] and Gaston.

[3] North of Banks, OR 47 shares an alignment for about 4 miles (6 km) with U.S. Route 26 over the Sunset Highway, which is—a bit confusingly—Highway 47.

"Stub" Stewart Memorial State Park[4] and shortly thereafter reaching the summit called "Tophill" where the highway departs the Willamette River drainage and enters the Nehalem drainage.

The Apiary road is popular with truckers as it does not have the restrictive length limitations which are applied to OR 47 North of Mist or Oregon Route 202 west of Jewell because of numerous short turns.

Eventually, OR 47 descends out of the mountains into the Columbia River basin, and ends in the city of Clatskanie at an intersection with U.S. Route 30.