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Tomales Point on Point Reyes Peninsula. Tomales Point is the North-Western tip of Point Reyes Peninsula. Bodega Bay is to the North, Tomales Bay is to the East, and the Pacific Ocean is to the West. The point is accessible only via a 9.5 mile hike (out and back) along Tomales Point Trail. The region is home to a tule elk population. [1]
Tomales Bay State Park is a California state park in Marin County, California. [ 1 ] It consists of approximately 2,000 acres (8 km²) divided between two areas, one on the west side of Tomales Bay and the other on the east side.
The area surrounding Tomales Bay was once the territory of the Coast Miwok tribe. Documented villages in the area included Echa-kolum (south of Marshall), Sakloki (opposite Tomales Point), Shotommo-wi (near the mouth of the Estero de San Antonio), and Utumia (near Tomales). [12] The tribe's history is deeply rooted in the bay and its ...
Ocean vistas from higher ground can be seen from the Tomales Point Trail and, to the south, from the Palomarin trailhead at the park's southern entrance outside the town of Bolinas. All of the park's beaches were listed as the cleanest in the state in 2010. [41] For backpackers, Point Reyes has four hike-in campgrounds available by reservation.
Nicasio Creek is an 11.9-mile-long (19.2 km) [2] stream in Marin County, California, United States and is the primary tributary of Lagunitas Creek, which flows, in turn, into Tomales Bay, and the Pacific Ocean. The Nicasio Reservoir, formed in 1961 by Seeger Dam, is located on this stream.
The Point Reyes Light is a weekly newspaper covering West Marin. West Marin landscape Unlike the rest of the county, which is served by Golden Gate Transit, West Marin is served only by Marin Transit , which connects to Golden Gate Transit lines at Marin City and in the San Geronimo Valley , among other locations.
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Watercourses which feed into Tomales Bay, numbered clockwise from Sand Point to Tomales Point: Walker Creek (255208) Keys Creek (254852) Chileno Creek (254740) Frink Canyon (223952) Verde Canyon (237053) Salmon Creek (232280) Arroyo Sausal (254577) Millerton Gulch (228754) Grand Canyon (224386) Tomasini Canyon (236446) Lagunitas Creek (255208)