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Point Reyes Aerial View. Point Reyes (/ ˈ r eɪ. ɪ s / RAY-iss Spanish: Punta de los Reyes, meaning 'Cape of the Kings') is a prominent landform and popular tourist destination on the Pacific coast of Marin County in Northern California. It is approximately 30 miles (50 km) west-northwest of San Francisco.
Point Reyes Station Marshall: Ramsar Wetland. Official name: Tomales Bay: Designated: October 21, 2002: Reference no. 1215 [1] Tomales Bay is a long, narrow inlet of ...
Drakes Estero, the landing spot of Francis Drake on the coast of North America in 1579 during his circumnavigation of the world is a National Historic Landmark. [13] [14] A historical marker has been placed on Drakes Beach near the Kenneth C. Patrick Visitor Center and monuments to Drake have been erected at the Drake's Cove landing site.
Point Reyes Station (formerly Marin and Olema Station) [7] is a small unincorporated town in western Marin County, California, United States. Point Reyes Station is located 13 miles (21 km) south-southeast of Tomales , [ 7 ] at an elevation of 39 feet (12 m). [ 5 ]
Map of Point Reyes National Seashore, with the wilderness area in green. 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. Some existing agricultural ...
The village, founded by miners and lumberjacks, is located within the original Rancho Punta de los Reyes Sobrante land grant. [8] It was a stagecoach stop along the north–south route. The village includes the historic Nelson Hotel, which was connected by the old North Pacific Coast Railroad to the Bolinas Station, en route to Point Reyes. [6]
Drakes Bay. Drakes Bay (Coast Miwok: Tamál-Húye) is a 4 mi (6 km) wide bay named so by U.S. surveyor George Davidson in 1875 along the Point Reyes National Seashore on the coast of northern California in the United States, approximately 30 mi (50 km) northwest of San Francisco at approximately 38 degrees north latitude. [2]
Pelican Lake is a small lake in the southern portion of the Point Reyes National Seashore, northwest of Bolinas.The lake sits at an elevation of 203 feet (62 m) and has an outflow via the short Pelican Lake Creek southwest through a notch in the coastal cliffs onto Double Point's Bolsa Beach.