Rock Spring and Laurel Dell (Marin Municipal Water District, CA)
*The following is a guest post from my friend and old classmate, the lovely Emily Alpert! Perched on the top of Mount Tamalpais, the Rock Spring Trail meanders through meadows, chaparral, and forests....
View ArticleDipsea Trail – Steep Ravine Trail Loop (Mount Tamalpais State Park, CA)
At 2,571 feet above sea level, California’s Mount Tamalpais (known affectionately by locals as “Mt. Tam”) offers splendid vistas of Marin Peninsula and the San Francisco Bay area, as well as Bolinas...
View ArticlePoint Bonita Lighthouse Trail (Golden Gate National Recreation Area, CA)
Throughout much of San Francisco’s history, ships seeking to enter the Bay Area flirted with disaster: jagged rocks, shallow beds, dense fog, and nasty waves left hundreds of vessels in the 19th and...
View ArticleCoastal Trail to Tennessee Point (Golden Gate National Recreation Area, CA)
Named for the SS Tennessee, a commercial steamer that wrecked nearby in 1853, Tennessee Point is one of the best vantage points overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Golden Gate National Recreation Area’s...
View ArticleBen Johnson-Bootjack Trail Loop (Muir Woods National Monument, CA)
The redwood groves of Muir Woods National Monument, while lovely, have a people problem. Within a half-mile radius of the park’s tiny visitor center, there are scores and scores of visitors. Yet the...
View ArticleSteep Ravine – Matt Davis Trail Loop (Mount Tamalpais State Park, CA)
The Steep Ravine – Matt Davis Trail Loop in California’s Mount Tamalpais State Park is a longer and more popular variant of the Steep Ravine – Dipsea Trail Loop (described in an April 2015 post)....
View ArticleFern Creek – Dipsea – Sun Trail Loop (Muir Woods National Monument, CA)
Fern Creek Trail, Muir Woods National Monument, April 2021 Sure the towering California redwoods are lovely, but Muir Woods National Monument on the Marin Peninsula has become almost comically crowded,...
View ArticleCataract Falls Trail (Marin Municipal Water District, CA)
Cataract Falls Trail, Marin Municipal Water District, Mount Tamalpais Watershed, April 2023 Described as “very rugged and demanding,” the stair-master challenge that is the Cataract Trail is...
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