The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology has an Otis mailing address but is located nearer to the coast on Cascade Head.

[citation needed] Otis made the national headlines in 1999 and again in 2004, when it was announced that the town was for sale for $3 million.

Owner Vivian Lematta's grandfather bought the land from descendants of the Siletz Indians for $800 in 1910.

[6] Included in the sale were the gas station and mini grocery store, a Pronto Pup corn dog stand, two houses, an empty 25-stall horse barn, a helicopter storage shed, a garage, a Grange hall, the Otis post office, the Otis Café, an auto-repair garage and 190 acres (0.77 km2) of farmland.

[5] This region experiences warm (but not hot) and dry summers, with no average monthly temperatures above 71.6 °F (22.0 °C).