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Point Reyes is, by official records, the windiest and foggiest on the Pacific Coast. The station is frequently blanketed by week-long periods of fog and few years pass that do not see violent gales of 75 to 100 miles per hour (121 to 161 km/h) strike the area. Point Reyes Light Station is one of the District's outstanding tourist attractions.
The point is a roughly triangular projection from the mainland, whose southwestern tip has eastern and western projections. The Point Reyes Lighthouse is located at the western projection, exposed to the Pacific Ocean, while the lifeboat station is located on the sheltered north side of the eastern projection, facing Drake's Bay. Its principal ...
Historic Washington State Park (formerly Old Washington Historic State Park) is a 101-acre (41 ha) Arkansas state park in Hempstead County, Arkansas in the United States. The museum village contains a collection of pioneer artifacts from the town of Washington, Arkansas , which is a former pioneer settlement along the Southwest Trail . [ 2 ]
Point Reyes National Seashore is a 71,028-acre (287.44 km 2) park preserve located on the Point Reyes Peninsula in Marin County, California. As a national seashore , it is maintained by the US National Park Service as an important nature preserve.
The S.S. Point Reyes, long ago abandoned at the edge of Tomales Bay, has been loved and abused by decades of visitors. And its days appear to be numbered. This California 'shipwreck,' beloved but ...
The U.S. Weather Bureau (now the National Weather Service) maintained a cooperative weather station in the Point Reyes lighthouse from 1914 to 1943, though temperatures were only tracked through 1926. Based on those records, average January temperatures ranged from 45.1 to 54.1 °F (7.3 to 12.3 °C) and average September temperatures ranged ...
In 2021, the federal agency released a report that showed more than one third of the 445 elk fenced in at Tomales Point at the time had died the previous winter, reducing the population to 293.
Point Reyes Lighthouse; Point Reyes State Marine Reserve & Point Reyes State Marine Conservation Area; R. Point Reyes; S. Sir Francis Drake Boulevard; T. Tomales Point